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gimpsnakelvr

gimpsnakelvr

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well i started looking into getting a western hognose. but i soon started reading the black milksnake. however, i was cruising faunaclassifieds and came across some beautiful jungle corns. that being said i narrowed my choicezs from 3 to 2. should i go for the black milksnake or jungle corns?
 
Well, hogs are my favorite snake, so I'll be no help here. ;) Good luck with whichever you decide!
 
Definitely black milk. That's the only addition to my home I am going to make sometime hopefully this year...lol
 
I am not big into "muddy" snakes, and black milks go through a muddy stage. Their size is cool, but they end up looking somewhat like an MBK...

I am going to buck the trend and say jungle corn!
 
Black Milk for sure. You get to watch them change colour, they're bigger, and (from what I've read) are easier to keep.

I'm not into hybrids either, I guess I'm a snake purist at heart. I don't think hybrids are wrong; but there's a risk factor that whoever ends up with them breeds them back to say, a pure corn, and then the babies look like corns but have secret king genes, and then generations forever after are muddied. I have breeder friends who won't even touch corns for all the crap they get put through genetically. Little wonder, the pet store here had a bairds rat listed as a "ghost stripe corn". Oy.

so ya. Black Milk! And I'd name him Black Manta.
 
Hypancistrus said:
I am not big into "muddy" snakes, and black milks go through a muddy stage. Their size is cool, but they end up looking somewhat like an MBK...

I am going to buck the trend and say jungle corn!
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the muddy stage meaning the musking?


thank you for all the feedback keep it coming! i enjoy everyone's opinion
 
I'm sure she means when they're changing colors from tri-color to black. As they grow, their colors tend to "muddy" until they become completely black.
 
To be honest, I've never been musked by my guy, Shazam. He was squirmy and may have tried to (their vent does open up), but I don't recall getting musked or having any pungent odors on me.

IF you do get musked, it DOES stink, but I don't think it smells as bad as a skunk's smell... nor does it last that long or PERMEATE everything like a skunk's smell does. Water and soap washes it off pretty well.
 
You know the black milk is a pretty big snake, right?? They are _so_ impressive as adults. I _like_ the phase when they are changing colors, with less and less red each time. Search for a snake named Noir to see what I mean.

I agree with Beth- I'm just not into hybrids, really of any animal, except maybe mules. Except pueblacorns- I love them.

My milksnake, Inez, musked every time I handled her for the first year of her life, but never bit. It wasn't -too- smelly, nothing like a garter. I'd just walk over to the sink, rinse her off, and she'd be done till the next time. She's finally given it up now.
 
Nanci said:
You know the black milk is a pretty big snake, right?? They are _so_ impressive as adults. I _like_ the phase when they are changing colors, with less and less red each time. Search for a snake named Noir to see what I mean.

I agree with Beth- I'm just not into hybrids, really of any animal, except maybe mules. Except pueblacorns- I love them.

My milksnake, Inez, musked every time I handled her for the first year of her life, but never bit. It wasn't -too- smelly, nothing like a garter. I'd just walk over to the sink, rinse her off, and she'd be done till the next time. She's finally given it up now.
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yes i do. that is about the only geniune info i have found so far about this type of milksnake lol. i'll be sure to search for noir.
 
so i'm going to go with a black milksnake. i found a breeder but he feeds the hatchlings live, are blk milksnakes easy to switch to f/t?
 
Any snake I've bought that has previously only been fed live has made the switch to FT no problem. Just make sure your pink is nice and hot, like 102F, and maybe put a couple slits in the back of the pink. I just do that anyway, for good digestion. Actually, I have two recent babies that were started on live. Zora would only eat live, but then took FT for Carol (I haven't fed her yet...) and Mingo ate two meals of live for Rich just because that's how he starts them off, then one FT for Rich and three FT for me, so far. Then I have an adult corn (Bacon) who came to me as a three year old who'd only been fed live and he switched with no questions asked, too. My Nelson's milksnake Inez came from that same breeder and as a hatchling had been only fed live- she ate FT no problem.
 
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