So... a thought just hit me. I'm not sure I should get any more herptiles than the frog I have now. I say this because...
1. I used to have a big room, but then I moved away from home for a year, and when I came back I ended up with a smaller room, and there is no way I can rearrange the furniture to accomidate more cages
2. After I graduate from high school this coming year, I'll be going to community college, and still living at home, but after I get my associates I will be moving someplace else for my undergrad, and someplace else for my grad. Which means I would be moving around, a lot, and probably to apartments and dorms, which, I know dorms don't allow pets, and apartments vary.

So I'm a little conflicted as to what I should do. I LOVE reptiles, and I love keeping and caring for them, but looking at my future, I'm unsure if I can keep them for much longer. Of course if I talk like that I wouldn't be able to keep reptiles for...8 years are so, which I don't think I can do.

Eh' I'm gonna go back to thinking.

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0.0.1 Pacman Frog (Ceratophrys ornata)

It's always something to think about. Moving is hard, especially with animals.

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

It's very mature and responsible for you to think ahead about all of that, when I first moved out of my parents house it was rough finding a place that would take a huge iguana.

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I have moved 5 times in the last two years, and taken all of my pets with me, including fish (and one move was a 1200 mile drive), and they seem to do okay. But we always knew what was going on at Point B, and had a place arranged that allowed for pets. That's really the hardest part - finding pet-friendly living quarters.

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Ball Pythons (1.2)
Boa Constrictors (1.1)
Brazilian Rainbow Boa (0.1)
Jurassic Milk Snake (1.0)
Mississippi Map Turtle (1.0)
Chinese Water Dragon (0.1)

"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

Edward O. Wilson

If you are short on space, you could always construct a shelving unit to stack the tanks. This then limits you to a size, but you could at least put a leo in another.

Every time I have moved since the age of 20, I have made sure where I have moved to allows pets. It takes a little searching, but you can find it. Many times dorms allow small tanks but I would check. I had hermit crabs as pets in the dorm. No one cared, of course I went to a very liberal school.

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

It's a very good that you are thinking ahead! Shows maturity!
Far too many young people don't.
They accumulate several pets and when the time comes and they need to move, they are suddenly stumbling around trying to find somone to take care of them.
And with reptiles that is often a very difficult thing to do.
Mom and Dad don't want to mess with them and the only friends who are interested in them are people that you KNOW would not take care of them properly.
It would be better to wait till you are settled. THEN begin to amass your collection. Reptiles have been around for millions of years, they aren't going anywhere in 8!

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

My mom was hoping I'd leave my snake home when I moved (as if). But they are very hard to place, and like Merlin said, it's hard to find anyone you really trust, especially if you have grown fond of your herps.

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Ball Pythons (1.2)
Boa Constrictors (1.1)
Brazilian Rainbow Boa (0.1)
Jurassic Milk Snake (1.0)
Mississippi Map Turtle (1.0)
Chinese Water Dragon (0.1)

"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

Edward O. Wilson

It's good to think about it now. Many schools do not allow any pets. You would need to check possible schools out, it may limit your choices of schools if you decide to keep your pets. My youngest girls are at college from the last week of August to the first week of December and then from the first week of January to the 3rd week of April. I am a reptile owning/rescuing Mom though. I do not mind having their animals while they are at school, they help with mine when they are home. They are 1 1/2 hours away, so every couple of weeks I make the 3 hour drive to get them and bring them home on Friday, then take them back on Sunday. The colleges Savannah Monitor and Schneider's Skink also stay here during breaks (the tortoise and the RES don't because they are owned by a different professor). They had a bad car accident in September (they are fine now, other than traumatized one drives, the other doesn't), so I get the honor of driving them back and forth until another vehicle comes along that is in the required low, low price range. LOL Their dorm only allows a 5-10 gallon fish tank with only "harmless" fish in it. They keep a Betta fish in their room - he was traumatized by the accident also - we call him miracle fish, he survived the accident, being out of water for well over an hour, somebody sitting on him, and falling into a puddle of antifreeze that leaked out of the vehicle. My foster daughter found him when she and my oldest daughter and husband were cleaning stuff up at the accident site. Washed him up, put him in a bottle of water that was in the car and he's still alive today! Good luck with your schooling! You have a good plan set out.

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Kat

Holy cow, that's one tough fish.

There is always community colleges if you could commute - keep your herps at home. That rules out a lot of options though.

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Ball Pythons (1.2)
Boa Constrictors (1.1)
Brazilian Rainbow Boa (0.1)
Jurassic Milk Snake (1.0)
Mississippi Map Turtle (1.0)
Chinese Water Dragon (0.1)

"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

Edward O. Wilson

Beta's are awesome. He probably was able to survive because they really don't need much water to live in. They are native to rice fields and I imagine when the rain level goes down it can get pretty cramped for water space as well...

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