Greetings from Greece!

Hello!

I am from Greece and have been fascinated with snakes since my early childhood when I found and caught with bare hands a probably newly hatched baby snake of copper/black color but which slipped through my fingers before I found a suitable container. I didn't keep any snakes as a child as my parents hate them and wouldn't allow but I had friends into the hobby and into Python breeding and got plenty of handling experience from them and their beautiful big snakes. Since entering the pharmaceutical university,I had the freedom of searching and learning more about them and their care and I finally got my first snake on October 2010 just after a pets show in Greece. It was a Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli as I really like the colors of this milksnake and i still have it and like it a lot of course! A few months latter and as things were going well with my milksnake,I got my first Sanzinia madagascariensis which is actually the snake I liked the most while browsing for my first snake but I didnt get due to its price and size/adequate housing concerns from my part. Well to make the story short,I still have and love these first snakes of mine and I am waiting suitable mates to pair them up in about a week.
I got my first pitviper last Friday,a nice Ovophis tonkinensis pair from a local venomous snake keeper who also showed me the proper handling techniques for them and openly shared his experience with this pair. They are great snakes and really calm,not easily taking even the defensive/aggressive posture and rather just curious and lightly causious. It's great to have them and I find them a great first hot and great snakes in general! I hope to get babies from them this year!

As far as venomous snakes go,I plan to keep these for a while first and later get a Bothriechis species as well or another great looking arboreal with a non-necrotic venom.

It's great to be part of this community! Looking forward to learning from your expertise!!!

Cheers!
-Konstantinos

Hi Konstantinos ;

Be welcome on the forum.

Regards...

Thank you very much Franz!

Hi Konstantinos,

A lot of people on this site herp over in Greece, so your about to become very popular:)

Hi Kelly!

It would be a pleasure to meet some of you on your herping trips to Greece! We have some very nice reptiles and some personal favorites include our large geckos,Malpogon and a few of our large lizards. Vipers are nice too!

Welcome to the forum Konstantinos! There are many herpers here with extensive experience to learn from. Pharmacology complements venomous reptiles very well.

Regards, Ron

Thank you very much for the warm welcome Ron! I hope to learn a lot more here from experienced keepers like you! Indeed,knowledge of Pharmacology helps a lot with venomous,especially here where doctors dont have any experience with exotic venomous bites and we have to guide them through.

Best regards,
-Konstantinos