glenhead
Elder curmudgeon
Since I've posted responses to a few threads, I figured I'd better introduce myself. I'm Glen, the guy lucky enough to be married to Lesley (lesleym, who introduced herself on 7-17).
I've been messing with snakes since 1978, though not constantly. My college roommate was the head of the herp society at Texas A&M, and at one point we had 68 snakes in our duplex, including 24 vipers of various sorts. We did research to determine if there were two distinct subspecies of copperheads in southeast Texas (there aren't), and generally compared temperaments, habits, and characteristics of the various species. That's where I learned the mantra I've passed along a couple of times in these forums: "Patience. Learn from the snake." I also had a specimen of my candidate for the World's Most Vicious Animal, the tokay gecko (never again!), and we did turtle, toad, and frog rescue from dredged ponds in the area.
Since Lesley's introduction, we've added a couple of morphs to our stable. Current occupants are a 22-month-old female Brazilian Rainbow Boa; cornsnake hatchlings consisting of a female Blizzard motley, female and male Golddust motleys, a male amel, a male amel stripe, and a male Charcoal motley; and a yearling female hypo Lavender motley corn. We're sticking with motleys, except for the impulse purchase of the normal-patterned amel male (which we'll likely never breed, and may decide to sell or trade). His coloration and patterning were just too pretty to pass up, and it was before the motley decision, so... In the next couple of months we'll be adding a few more females for interesting cross possibilities. I think we're pretty well full-up on males, although we're debating a Phantom male. We're going to get my almost-13-year-old daughter's input on the females, with the expectation that this will give her science-fair fodder for the rest of her school career.
My current other hobbies are working on a kit car and building a wooden model of the Santa Maria. I also do choral singing, photography, and infrequent woodworking and amateur radio (Extra class license). I have a set of bagpipes that I play occasionally. I've also done remote-control airplanes and scuba diving (although not both at once!), and was a volunteer deputy sheriff, firefighter, and paramedic back in the 80s.
Lesley is on her way home from a week-long trip traipsing around New Mexico looking at birds (her other near-passion), and we'll post pics of the kids soonish.
I've been messing with snakes since 1978, though not constantly. My college roommate was the head of the herp society at Texas A&M, and at one point we had 68 snakes in our duplex, including 24 vipers of various sorts. We did research to determine if there were two distinct subspecies of copperheads in southeast Texas (there aren't), and generally compared temperaments, habits, and characteristics of the various species. That's where I learned the mantra I've passed along a couple of times in these forums: "Patience. Learn from the snake." I also had a specimen of my candidate for the World's Most Vicious Animal, the tokay gecko (never again!), and we did turtle, toad, and frog rescue from dredged ponds in the area.
Since Lesley's introduction, we've added a couple of morphs to our stable. Current occupants are a 22-month-old female Brazilian Rainbow Boa; cornsnake hatchlings consisting of a female Blizzard motley, female and male Golddust motleys, a male amel, a male amel stripe, and a male Charcoal motley; and a yearling female hypo Lavender motley corn. We're sticking with motleys, except for the impulse purchase of the normal-patterned amel male (which we'll likely never breed, and may decide to sell or trade). His coloration and patterning were just too pretty to pass up, and it was before the motley decision, so... In the next couple of months we'll be adding a few more females for interesting cross possibilities. I think we're pretty well full-up on males, although we're debating a Phantom male. We're going to get my almost-13-year-old daughter's input on the females, with the expectation that this will give her science-fair fodder for the rest of her school career.
My current other hobbies are working on a kit car and building a wooden model of the Santa Maria. I also do choral singing, photography, and infrequent woodworking and amateur radio (Extra class license). I have a set of bagpipes that I play occasionally. I've also done remote-control airplanes and scuba diving (although not both at once!), and was a volunteer deputy sheriff, firefighter, and paramedic back in the 80s.
Lesley is on her way home from a week-long trip traipsing around New Mexico looking at birds (her other near-passion), and we'll post pics of the kids soonish.
