Downsized collection

I haven't posted much on this forum in quite a while, until the past few days. The reason being that my reptiles became a bit of a chore to be honest. I'm sure I'm not the first to have this happen - you get "bitten by the reptile bug" and grow quite a large collection. At one point last year I had over 60 snakes, 20 Ts, 3 hedgehogs, almost 20 tubs of breeding rodents, 3 chameleons, 2 frogs etc etc. Then when I got a promotion in work, Almost all of my spare time was taken up with the animals. Thankfully I didn't rehome all of my animals and the ones that I did rehome all went on to good homes. I've now got just 4 snakes left - 3 carpet pythons and a royal python - and I'm back to the point of being able to enjoy the hobby.

I was torn on whether to post about this or not as I don't think it portrays me in a great light, but hopefully some new enthusiasts will take some advice from this - build your collection 1 animal at a time and make sure you're 100% comfortable with everything you've got, before looking for further additions to your collection.

Anywho, here's some pics I took in the last day or 2 of my remaining pythons:

1.) Female Jag Coastal Carpet Python
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2.) Male Jungle Carpet Python - possibly for sale

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I have pics of the other 2, but haven't copied them off the DSLR yet, so will post them later...

3.) Female Coastal Carpet Python

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4.) Female Royal Python

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The snakes you have left are lovely and I'd say fair play to you for realising when you had too much on your plate and giving your animals to good homes at least you have all the time you need to care for the ones you have now

Love the Morelia

good post. and you kept some crackers, and a royal.

i only keep 5 snakes, 2 dunns, 2 maclots and a savu. i have another 2 to get in the future to complete my collection, then thats it. i dont want snakes for the sake of it. what i have interest me so i dont need loads when one of a species can do it. i dont like having to be in my snake room for more than half an hour either!

to many people feel they have to have loads of snakes i reckon.

carpet pythons are stunning mate

Yeah I love the carpets - they're the perfect sized snake IMO - good length and thickness (thicker than colubrids and thinner than boas), though I do see myself adding a boa to the collection, as I regret not keeping one.

The jag is my favourite.

fair play to you for what you did and for putting it out there for all to see. i go through phases of wanting this and that but i have stuck to my one dwarf boa and two hognoses and i cant see me getting any more snakes. lizards however is a different story, i adore all of my uromastyx and i would love more of them. when i have my own place the first thing thats coming in is an egyptian uromastyx and then ill be happy.

you chose some cracking snakes to hang on to though

Love the morelia you held onto there

mate i say fair play to you it takes a strong person to hold there hands up and admit when they are wrong and the snakes you did keep are crackers

Cheers buddy :-D