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First Python

What was your first python

  • African Rock Python

    Votes: 4 2.2%

  • Ball Python

    Votes: 110 60.8%

  • Burmese Python

    Votes: 25 13.8%

  • Carpet Python

    Votes: 13 7.2%

  • Reticulated Python

    Votes: 7 3.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 22 12.2%
  • Total voters
    181
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I think I have a fairly good idea where the numbers will fly on this one, but I will toss it out there anyway:
 
For the record - my first was an Afrock, and they remain one of my all time favorites (even though I haven't had one of my own for about 7-8 years)
 
Ball python.

Thats when I didn't know about all of these other pythons though :D.

Just too bad I can't keep constrictors over 6' in this state.
 
My first was a Ball Python. Always liked having a bulkier snake, that's why never went for corns or kings, but also didnt want something that grew 6foot+.

Next in line is an IJ carpet I think :) Very pretty snakes, and still under 6 foot!
 
first snake was my dad's bermese (named the same,kinda cool) in a 1 bedroom apartment. had it for a while. forget how big the tank was but he was feeding it rabbits in the bathtub towards the end. gave it to a petting zoo or something like that in oklahoma city.

now i have a ball cuz i read how big berms get and dont want something that big right now. maybe when i get a house and i can let it run (hehehehe) wild in the house or build it a huge enclosure in the house.
 
Really suprised that the two of you had African Rocks as your first python..they're huuuuge buggers!!

Can only assume you had experience with boas before that?
 
Not me. Afrock was the first snake I ever bought...after that, I was given a whole bunch of them (rocks) over the years. Most I ever kept at 1 housed was 8. I had a few that were "mine", the rest were rescues that came and went.
 
well i had a burm but i had to give it back to my cousin for space problems but in a coulple of months im moving and getting a huge room
 
i always wanted a retic.... back then they were notorious for being grumpy, and untrustworthy. so my first python was a burm LOL!! ... but once new CAPTIVE BRED morphs started to emerge with retics, i finally broke down and saw the light!
 
hhmoore said:
I started with WCs, lol, & loved them anyway
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whooooooooooohoooooooo..... nothing like dealing with an 18ft pissed off wild caught retic!

better don the Bear Suit (body armor) :rotflmao:
 
I'm actually not sure if my big girl was WC or CB...I could believe either.
The WCs that were my personal animals were bought young, the ones that came in larger were rescues and didn't stay long term (a pi$$y 12 ft retic is still a handful, lol). The only one I didn't like was the one one that used to flail & spray - gorgeous snake, but not pleasant to work with
 
i actually started with bci's and hogg island boa's , but the first actual python i had was a ball rescue . before i got into the boids , i had kings , corns , rat snakes , lots of local caught snakes , lizards , turtles , frogs . whatever i could get my hands on basicly .
 
It was long long ago in a place far far away(it really was) Had a number of local snakes and a boa or two before I bought my first Ball when I was 18. And dang if he didn't bite me lol..Randy
 
bad ball

my first snake was a ball python I got when I was 11 or so. I had a really bad experience with it. Never ate, had parasites, and had the personality of a piece of driftwood. It was clearly an import. After that I switched to boas. It was probably not for another five years until I got into carpet pythons. Now I keep several species of pythons and still no balls.

Jon
 
First python = Ringed Python :)

As a teenager (10 years ago) I kept many snakes: a large boa, bred corns and milks. I worked at the pet store where I cared for large pythons and boas, but never owned a python at home.

I'm just now getting back into herps and bought a hatchling Ringed Python at the Sacramento Reptile Expo. She's been a bit fiesty, eats like I do, and is calming down more and more each time I hold her (she's gone two handling sessions now without jumping out of my hands onto the ground!).

She ate this one backwards, hah:
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PS - Any photography tips on getting more clear pictures?
 
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