weirdest pet acquisition

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Oddball said:
Cool save. Back in the 80s, I caught a female bat ray that aborted her pregnancy when I hauled her up on the pier. 2 were stillborn and 2 survived that I put in my SW pond. One was nearly white (underdeveloped) and the other was dark gray. The white one died less than 24 hours later. The other grew to 3 1/2 ft wingspan before I had to give him away when I received orders that took me across country.
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thats pretty cool, shame the white one didnt make it
 
I really want a snake, wife says no. I've been asking and begging for years, then one day she came home with an 18" title track eel in an attempt to shut me up. Love this guy but I still want a snake. It's pretty high on my wish list next to a parrot, micro pig, and a lion fish.


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MidWestMike said:
I really want a snake, wife says no. I've been asking and begging for years, then one day she came home with an 18" title track eel in an attempt to shut me up. Love this guy but I still want a snake. It's pretty high on my wish list next to a parrot, micro pig, and a lion fish.
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you can have my ball python :naughty:
 
MidWestMike said:
I really want a snake, wife says no. I've been asking and begging for years, then one day she came home with an 18" title track eel in an attempt to shut me up. Love this guy but I still want a snake. It's pretty high on my wish list next to a parrot, micro pig, and a lion fish.


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I've had loads of snakes from boas and green tree pythons to copperheads and trust me when I say the appeal wears off pretty quickly. 90% of the time they just sit there and do nothing....at all. I practically had my own reptile exhibit when I was younger. The appeal of living in texas where everything was legal. I now just keep fish and a few left over ball python morphs that I bred and couldn't let go. My fish are my favorite by far though.

I don't have any awesome stories to contribute except several times I would find wild snakes on top of the rat breeding racks. Never kept any though.
 
bassfisher91 said:
I've had loads of snakes from boas and green tree pythons to copperheads and trust me when I say the appeal wears off pretty quickly. 90% of the time they just sit there and do nothing....at all. I practically had my own reptile exhibit when I was younger. The appeal of living in texas where everything was legal. I now just keep fish and a few left over ball python morphs that I bred and couldn't let go. My fish are my favorite by far though.

I don't have any awesome stories to contribute except several times I would find wild snakes on top of the rat breeding racks. Never kept any though.
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:banhim: if your snakes did nothing but sit ther, you were doing something wrong. given a natural enclosure most snakes activity levels will be amazingly different than one in a bland, sterile enclosure
 
brought a bunch of fish and a ray to ohio to sell them and almost ended up buying a marmoset monkey. that was a close call
 
MidWestMike said:
Obviously as a member of this forum, I'm a dedicated an obsessed fish keeper, but I have kids as well. Occasionally when I take them to the local shop with me for supplies or to browse the latest livestock, they see something they gotta have. I've gone in for pellet food or filter media and come home with birds, hampsters, and just last month I became a first time reptile owner with a baby bearded dragon. I swear between the 9 fishtanks, 2 parakeets, several rodents, lizard, 4 dogs and a cat, one more animal and ill charge admission.


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That's us.... We have 6 snakes, a yellow belly turtle, 180g CA/SA cichlids, 75g saltwater, 110g salt water, a long-tailed lizard, crickets for feeding. At this point, we are considering a sulcata tortoise, Cuban knight anole, and chameleon.

Like I said, we know the feeling! :nilly:
 
Our strangest acquisition was this:

We were home one evening and I was about to walk out the front door. As I opened the door, there was one of my fiancé's dream snakes -a scarlet kingsnake - sitting right on the front stoop! The ironic thing about is we were just telling our daughter the meaning of irony regarding another snake find like this earlier in the evening. We swooped in and took the snake in. She's still with us today and is happily munching on anoles! :)
 
getting a free ball python.. a friend had a ball python, asked if i wanted it ( such a short notice ) and said yes, but didnt realize how much care needed to go into for snakes.. so i sold it to someone who loves snakes and has a bunch of other snakes.
 
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