Hello

I'm Heather, 46 years young and a fellow reptile enthusiast.

I've kept ball pythons and had a green iguana for a decade- he hated everyone but me. I have a couple tarantulas, chinchillas, rabbits, fish tanks, fat kitties and 3 small very spoiled little dogs.

I've been researching and spending way too much money on supplies and a new terrarium so I can have a garter snake community, all females because I have no interest in breeding. I currently have two noodles, a checkered and an eastern. Eating like no tomorrow and so cute!

Also spending even more money to get myself a pretty hognose girl, again just for a pet to adore.

It's so fun spending money on reptile supplies but even more fun browsing for a hognose because they seem to be all sold out everywhere.

So yes, I spend a lot of my time looking at snake pics.

Welcome.

I also kept a green iguana, for 21 years. Terrible pets, overall, and I say that with fondness for the time I had with mine.

Hognose are a lot of fun to keep -- you'll enjoy one, I think. I was going to suggest you check out the upcoming NARBC expo for one, but you're quite a ways away from Schaumburg. Illinois is bigger than I realized. Certainly St Louis has some decent expos.

Thank you!

I'd love to go to an expo if one of my goofy reptile terrified friends would just chum along with me, I just don't want to go alone.

I have been seeing that it's hognose baby season so hopefully one of the breeders I've been checking out has one soon. I don't want a fancy morph, just a nice plain one. Hard to find, maybe I'll have luck soon.