reptiles, how i love'em

[Gecko]

i never had any chickens until now, but I have had numerous reptiles, ranging from ball pythons, burmese pythons, reticualted pythons, and african rock pythons. i started getting away from the giant snakes after my family was born, not from fear of what they would do to my kids, it just takes alot of effort and time and space!
The largest snakes that i have had were about 13-15 feet long and about 120 pounds!!.. biiiiig mama!lol.
so i got into the smaller lizards, .. geckos to be exact. Leopard geckos. At one time i had over 45 geckos ranging from adults to hatchlings.
I really like breeding leopard geckos, it is fun to take the different color morphs and breed them together to see what you get

, but once again it takes lots o space.
since my good pc has died on me, i am using a backup that doent have any pics on it atm, but i will see if i can find some, all i have left reptile-wise currently is an African fat tail gecko, he is a dirty orange with dark brown bands and a single white stripe that goes down his spine, from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, he is over 10 yrs old now, and still has a good 10+ yrs left to go.

I incubated all the eggs myself, i used a hovabator incubator, with thermostat and a forced air fan, so I reckon i can do the same with chicken eggs, as long as i get the correct temps to use

so if anyone has any reptile questions, i can help. i have been dealing with "herps"(reptiles) for almost 20 yrs now. I dont mess with poisonous stuff, i am crazy... not stupid, lol

 

[key west chick]

I had a beautiful red tailed boa for years until he died. We owned a pet shop and DH gave him to me as a baby for valentines day one year. We feed him slow, didnt want to over feed for a huge snake. He was about 6 feet I guess when he died. We moved and right after we got settled in, he got out. It was in the fall and the house was quite cool. He was gone for several months. We found him, dehydrated and a bag of bones. We soaked him real good and fed him a small rat. He was just to weak and died with the rat half in his mouth. I felt so bad. RIP Dinky.

 

[feather leg farms]

OMG! you sound just like us. We have 16+ Bearded Dragons, 7+ Cornsnakes, 7 Geckos, 30+chickens, 1 mini donkey, 3 mini horses, 1 haflinger mare, 1 beagle, 1 pot belly pig, 3 button quail and that should be all.

 

[Bebop]

I miss my herps! I used to have a bearded dragon, tons of leos, fat tails, chameleon, sand boas, hognoses, corn snakes, and uromastyx.

 

[Crazy4Chicks]

I work at a pet store and LOVE it - I am the " snake " person ( and the rats lol )

we have a very young female ball python ( just got her to eat for the first time today ) I was so happy for her !!!

I am also care taker of a King boa - black - n- white CA king snake - and a huge red tail boa

I also care for a marbled Gecko - a few Anoles and a few green tree frogs - a red ear slider and a box turtle lol


I love my job LOL


the other day I had to take the big ole red tail into the dog bathtub in the grooming side of the store and let her soak in warm water and rub some oil on her - she had some skin left over from shedding that was not coming off she was a princess and just let me handle her with no problems since her bath she has taken 1 large rat and 2 med ones and looks great.

 

[ladycrotalus]

I have-
1.0.0 russian tortoise
1.0.0 red ear slider
0.0.1 mexican rosy boa
0.1.0 painted turtle
1.0.0 red tail boa
0.0.1 western hognose
0.0.1 amelanistic cornsnake
1.2.0 leucistic texas ratsnakes
0.1.0 eastern gartersnake
2.1.2 everglades ratsnakes
0.1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 amelanistic bull snake
3.2.0 leopard geckos
1.0.0 costa rican zebra tarantula

I too am the "reptile girl" everyone asks stuff from at the petstore i work at.
Currently for reptiles at the store, there is a red footed tortiose, crested gecko, 3 ball pythons, 2 leucistic ratsnakes, tangerine honduran milksnake, cornsnake, 3 bearded dragons, 2 leopard geckos, and a male leopard frog i raised from a tadpole that came in with the feeder guppy shipment. He isnt forsale since its illegal to sell native animals in ny even tho the tad came from new jersey. I have him set up as a display in a exo terra cage filled mostly with water, a submersible filter and some rocks in a corner to get out of the water and some duckweed.

 

[Gecko]

i am really wanting a large snake again, the one i am wanting is just waaayyy too much cash for me, lol.... the Leucistic retic, sooo pretty

, you imagine that snake at 28+ feet long?..../drool, lol, and its only 15 thousand bucks

i also like the dwarf retics

and they only get round 5-6 feet, and 500 bucks, but thats still alot for a snake,

if only i could hit the lottery, lmao!