How not to play with a large anaconda.

A few random photos of some of my reptiles....

Eastern Hognose Snake Sold in 2006
African flat tailed gecko (house gecko) Died 2005
Royal python 3 months old, now 1 1/2 years old.
Fat headed gecko (pictus gecko) Died 2005
Trinketts rat snake Died 2005

How it all began..............

It all began in 1999 when I begged my mum (margaret) to let me have a pet. I had only ever been allowed to have pet goldfish, as they never made a mess.

but I decided to take a look in the local Reptile shop, and came across Leopard Geckos, I spoke to the lady in the shop, she explained how to look after them correctly, and told me all about them, she sent me home with a lot of information.

I took this information home with me and showed my mum, who said to me, "If you can save up for it then you can get it" (not expecting me to be able to save over £100 for the whole set up) but just 3 short weeks later, I had the funds, and I was pestering my mum to take me to the shop to buy my Leopard Gecko.

When we got to the shop, I smilled at the lady behind the counter, as she helped me pick my lizard. My mum as you can imagine was not a happy women, but as promised she let me buy it.

We got my lizard home, set up his tank, Gave him a name (Maximus Decimus Meridius) AKA Maxie. Maxie was a lovely little lizard, he lived for nearly 4 years, but then had to go to the vets, as he had mouth rot, he was given some treatment, but later he started to refuse food, and then sadly died.

I then persuaded my mum to let me have a snake, which I bought on December 28th 2004.

It was a garter snake, which was very fast, almost uncontrolable. then after christmas I added a Corn snake to the collection.

since then I have kept adding to the collection, and currently have over 15 snakes.

Spiders. Love um or hate um

I personally have a deep down fear of spiders, I dont know what it is about them that scares me, but lets just say they're not everyones cup of tea.

I bought my first spider (Chile rose) in 2005 to get over my fear of spiders, which I managed to do quite successfully, handling it everyday, and letting it crawl over me.

Since then I have passed on the spider to my dad (Bill), and am currently housing a Indian Ornamental spider, which believe me is not a nice piece of work. They get really big, move incredibly fast and can inflict a deadly bite leading to hospitalisation and sometimes even death if the person bitten is allergic to the venom.

The pictures are of my Chile rose tarantula. Some of the Indian ornamental will be coming soon.

Cheers

Corn Snakes

These are a few of my corn snakes. I still have some of them and others have been sold on. My very first snake was a Garter snake, which led me on to buy a corn snake just 2 months later.

My first Cornsnake was a classic corn, as seen in one of the above photos, it cost approximately £30 and is called Valentine as he was purchased on... yes you've guessed it Valentines day.

At present I have 4 Corn snakes. At one point I had 12, but I had to make room for some bigger and much nastier snakes.

More coming soon.

Cheers

Royal Pythons

I currently have 3 Royal Pythons (Python Regius) all believed to be male.

Heres a photo I have of one of my royals. It is believed to be male, and is wild caught (WC). It has not fed since I got it in march, and hadn't fed since the shop I bought it from (Petropolis in Billingham tel: 01642 646844) got it in. It was sold to me as a non feeder as a project. Lauren, manager of Petropolis only sells this sort of reptile to advanced reptile keepers. I am currently working on giving it appetite boosters as well as worming antibiotics.

I hope this royal will feed very soon as I plan to use it in the future for breeding.

Cheers

Bullsnakes

This is a photo of my bullsnake (Pithuophis Catenifer). I am looking to buy another one of these. It will be moving in next Thursday, and is currently called Mitch, although the name will soon be changed to Bruce. His temperament is lovely, only bites occasionaly. With plenty of handling, he should be right as rain, and there should be no blood shed.

He will be put with one of my other adult Bullsnakes as soon as it has recovered from internal parasites. I also have a younger Bullsnake (female) which will join the gang as soon as she is a little bit bigger and can stick up for herself against to adult males. I dont think she would have any problems as she is very nasty at the moment (see above picture female in striking pose ready to bite me).

This is on par with Royal pythons to be my favourite snake of all.

More pictures coming later.

Reptiles

Im just startin up this blogspot, so you will have to bare with me, coming soon will be pictures of some of the reptiles I keep, aswell as Reptiles I would like to keep in the future.