New Member, Lampropeltis collector

Hello All,

My name is Robert and I currently live in Orange County, California. Growing up in Southern California I was an avid herper / collector and my room stacked with aquariums and any other "cage" I could keep reptiles in from the time I was 9 or 10 years old. My collection growing up was a combination of FC and store bought and consisted of Kings, Garters, Gophers, Rosys, Racers, Redtails, Pythons, Ringnecks, Mangroves, Hognoses, Monitors, Iguanas, Caimans, Tortoises, and anything else I could get my hands on. This was the early 1980's and was a much different time in the hobby. When I was around the age of 12 my collection was stolen and I'll spare you guys the sob story but needless to say, it effectively ended my interest in keeping reptiles.
So here we are 30+ years later and for about the past 1-2 years I have not been able to get the thought out of my head that I wanted to get back into reptiles, specifically snakes. I have spent the last 6-12 months lurking forums and various reptile related sites trying to get myself "caught up" on all of the new information that's out there. I finally got some "show" tanks set up in my new snake room, have some Vision racks on order, picked up my 1st 7-8 snakes in the last couple weeks, and am really stoked to be back in the hobby. I'm happy that a community like this exists and I look forward to doing some business with some of you and learning from many of you.
Cheers.