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My New Spilotes pullatus (tiger ratsnake)

Reptilekyle64

Reptilekyle64

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Hey everyone, I went to the mid atlantic reptile show on sat, and wasnt really planning on bring anything home just had to buy few supplies, turned out to be more then a few round 400$ the entire trip. Anyhows I first saw this species on kingsnake and thought it was an amazing snake, I later did some research to find more about this snake. Turns out these snakes are hard to come by CB as they are usually wild caught so i deicide not to buy any since i couldn't find a CB for a good price. couldn't to my luck when i entered the show the first thing that caught my eye was this adult male CB! Spilotes priced for the low low price of 100$ so of course I had to have him, It would be nice to get a female for him one day but right now hes one of those interesting snakes to just keep. Without delay here he is Lightning.

He kept coming out blurry when i went for closes ups out of 40 pics only had 5 good ones.

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Gotta love the big "spooky eyes" eyes

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Hes in a rack right now, by himself at 88 degrees, Ill probably move him into a glass enclosure by the end of the week.

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Heres a pic of me and him :cool: Shows his size well hes around 6 1/2 ft with them reaching up to 10ft

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Well Iam Sure Ill make an update of him soon once i get him squared away in a nice aboreal cage. hes pretty tame a lilquick moveing but overall gentle so far i hope you like him as much as I. Iam glad to add this species into my collection. (There quick like racers in the trees)
 
Very nice!!!! :bowdown:

I've only seen one in person and I think it was a WC. It also look as if it were on it's death bed. :awcrap: I don't even know why they took it to the show for sale. :headbang:
 
reptile_jones said:
Very nice!!!! :bowdown:

I've only seen one in person and I think it was a WC. It also look as if it were on it's death bed. :awcrap: I don't even know why they took it to the show for sale. :headbang:
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Thanks, And ive seen them at shows befor but most never looked healthy enough to buy or want and most had scars from live feedings. Iam lucky enough to have this perfect guy with not a scar or scale missing at all :crazy01:
 
Yeah, those are really nice rats. I have been wanting a pair of Tigers for awhile. Still thinking on getting some eventually.
Nice Pickup.
 
VERY nice! Did you start a thread on one about 2 weeks ago???? I can't remember... but there was another spilotes... Anywho... doesn't matter. I love them!!!
 
Wow congrats on the great find. Saw one of these a long time ago and loved
'em. Wish I had the room for a couple one day, but until then I'll just enjoy pictures of yours. Congrats!
 
Thanks All for the great compliments. I just offered him a small mouse today, which he took perfect and sallowed down in mere seconds Super fast eaters gotta get a vid sometime. Within the next 2 weeks I hope to move him into the glass enclosure so hell have more room and hes a perfect display animal, just a li'l long.
 
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