Just chiming in to say hi. I guess you could say, I'm coming back from a 4-5 year sabatical. Here's what brought me back. (warning- it's a little long with a cute ending)
My personal favorites are boas, pythons and monitors. Of the boas, I favor the Hypomelanistics, Anerythristics, Albinos and SunGlows. Of the pythons, I favor jungles, bloods and color morph balls. Of the monitors, I favor the Ackies (red/yellow) and Argus.
At one point, I had 20-30 herps (revolving stock) for 4-5 years and never bred anything. I had herp AADD. I would change my mind and sell/trade stuff, before I got a chance to breed it. Then my income changed and I could't afford $150+ pr/wk to feed the critters. I had too many favorites, to try keeping a few. So I sold everything. I told myself that I would not get back into herps, unless it was with albino boas. I had concluded the they were way out of my price range. So, it was an easy promise to keep. That was 4-5 years ago.
One month ago, my daughter decided she wanted a frog. That turned into a review of Reptiles magazine and trips to pet stores, to get caught up. Bad move, now I have the fever. So, I went to one shop (reptile store) asking about Pac-man frogs. As luck would have it, the owner had reptile show set up for the following weekend. The plan was set, to buy a frog at the show on Sunday. On Saturday night, I got a call from work (new job 2-3 months on) saying they needed me to work Sunday. Damn it! Time for Plan B, which was to order her a frog from the shop. The frogs were not readily available. So, I kept checking in, with the local shops. A couple of weeks later, still no albino pacmans.
One day (during the frog search) the G/F says, "there's a ball python from work, that needs a home". I gave in, and took the ball home, game over. It turned out to be an adult female. I found her a good home and ended up with 1.1 Anery boas. All of a sudden, I'm surfing online herp classifieds. The next thing you know, I added 1.1 albino boas (personal triumph). At the moment, I'm waiting for 2.2 hypo boas to be delivered. Somebody stop me... I have plans/dreams of breeding graduer.
... and what of my daughters frog?
She got a hamster instead...
...the care/maint of the frog made it not fun for her.
My personal favorites are boas, pythons and monitors. Of the boas, I favor the Hypomelanistics, Anerythristics, Albinos and SunGlows. Of the pythons, I favor jungles, bloods and color morph balls. Of the monitors, I favor the Ackies (red/yellow) and Argus.
At one point, I had 20-30 herps (revolving stock) for 4-5 years and never bred anything. I had herp AADD. I would change my mind and sell/trade stuff, before I got a chance to breed it. Then my income changed and I could't afford $150+ pr/wk to feed the critters. I had too many favorites, to try keeping a few. So I sold everything. I told myself that I would not get back into herps, unless it was with albino boas. I had concluded the they were way out of my price range. So, it was an easy promise to keep. That was 4-5 years ago.
One month ago, my daughter decided she wanted a frog. That turned into a review of Reptiles magazine and trips to pet stores, to get caught up. Bad move, now I have the fever. So, I went to one shop (reptile store) asking about Pac-man frogs. As luck would have it, the owner had reptile show set up for the following weekend. The plan was set, to buy a frog at the show on Sunday. On Saturday night, I got a call from work (new job 2-3 months on) saying they needed me to work Sunday. Damn it! Time for Plan B, which was to order her a frog from the shop. The frogs were not readily available. So, I kept checking in, with the local shops. A couple of weeks later, still no albino pacmans.
One day (during the frog search) the G/F says, "there's a ball python from work, that needs a home". I gave in, and took the ball home, game over. It turned out to be an adult female. I found her a good home and ended up with 1.1 Anery boas. All of a sudden, I'm surfing online herp classifieds. The next thing you know, I added 1.1 albino boas (personal triumph). At the moment, I'm waiting for 2.2 hypo boas to be delivered. Somebody stop me... I have plans/dreams of breeding graduer.
... and what of my daughters frog?
She got a hamster instead...
...the care/maint of the frog made it not fun for her. 
