what do you like

[hediki]

what kind of snake do you like besides corns? and do you think burmese, reticulated, and anacondas should be kept as pets?

i like all snakes ut i wouldnt keep all of them. i also think you shouldnt keep snakes that big because at that size there main objective is to get food and a mistake can cost you your life. :blowup: :toiletgra :eatpointe

 

[DAND]

what kind of snake do you like besides corns?

Just about all of them.

and do you think burmese, reticulated, and anacondas should be kept as pets?

Yes, but only by those who know what the are getting into and with proper experience.

 

[Śiva]

the harder question would be is there any snake other than corns that I don't like...but if I had to choose it would either be Indigo snakes, colombian red tail boas, texas rat snakes or two of my favorites, Rhino Vipers and West African Gaboon Vipers.

people should be able to own large snakes and venemous snakes as long as they understand fully the risks and responsibilities that go with those species and as DAND said, expirience is a must

 

[darkpbstar]

I like retics, but I dont want to own one, same with burms, I like having snakes I can handle easier, and those huge ones just dont move that much, they are usually cramped up in their viv's, I'd rather have a nice ball python that has room to move in a viv and can be handled.

 

[Amanda E]

I echo Dands comments.

To give further info, I currently only have corns, but I do have a wish list about a mile long of other species I'd like to get.

Here are a few at the top of my list:
Taiwan Beauty Ratsnake
Western Hognose
Olive Housesnake
Rosy Boa (Baja or El Rosario)
Nicaraguan BCI
Jungle Carpet Python
Variable Kingsnake (Orange/peach leonis)

I'd love to also have a really nice Surinam or Guyana BCC, with lots of pink and lots of "bat" markings but these are just way out of my league. They are too big and from what I've heard, too unforgiving as far as care.

 

[CAV]

Besides corns:

Brazilian Rainbow Boas
Mexican Black Kings
Variable Kings
Gray Banded Kings
Caulker Cay Boas
RUbber Boas

And if Chip's Woma is gravid, a pair of those. Come on Baby!

 

[mbdorfer]

My non corns:

Gray Banded Kingsnake
Florida Kingsnake
Eastern Kingsnake
Arizona Mountain Kingsnake
Mexican Milksnake

 

[jazzgeek]

Well, as the sig points out, I also have a Suri red tail, which I find to be more placid than the corns while handling.

My "some day" wish list -

Dumeril's Ground Boa
Carpet Python
Western Hognose
Amel. Cali. Banded King
Piebald Ball Python
Chondro Hatchling

Since I'm still a relative n00b, burms and retics would be out. I'm with darkpbstar on this - I don't want a herp that's longer than I am tall. I won't even consider hot herps, even when I've got a number of years of keeping under my belt. I'm too much into breathing and all that.

Of course, I also wish I had two more Labs, three more beardies, a hypo lav corn (Connie, you listening?), an Irish Terrier, an English Setter, a blue-tongue skink, an African Grey Parrot, a Hahn's Macaw, and a Bernese Mountain Dog. But as with everything, it's a matter of time and coin.

Finally, a redhead that looked like Angie Everhardt or Marilu Henner wouldn't hurt, either. Could I keep them together in the same viv? :crazy02:

regards,
jazz

 

[blacktegu]

i like most snakes really besides corns paticularly asian ratsnakes(taiwan and blue beauties),kingsnakes and am starting to like arboreal boids like amazon tree boas which i hope to own soon
i think retics and burms are best left to those with experience and the room to house such large snakes but the ones paticalarly burms ive seen have placid natures

 

[leerankin]

i too like most other snakes and keep a few other snakes except corns,i paticularly like taiwanese beautys,texas rats paticalarly leucistic,any type of kingsnake,treeboas and pythons and few others
i agree with everyone elses comments regarding burm and retic ownership
lee

 

[Skyclad8]

Just about all of them.

Hey DanD. Was wondering if you keep any Green Tree Boas. I'm kinda inlove with them. But wouldn't be able to take care of one. So I guess they're my dream snakes. If you have any pics I would love to see them.


Same goes for everyone else. Would like to see pics of your non-corns if you'd wanna show them.

 

[mbdorfer]

Just about all of them.




Same goes for everyone else. Would like to see pics of your non-corns if you'd wanna show them.

Here ya go
Dakota My female Arizona mountain king
lampropeltis pyromelana pyromelana

 

[leerankin]

your kingsnakes a beaut mbdorfer

3 of my non corns: royal python,carpet python and spotted python
lee

 

[tat2d1]

i'd like to have an indigo snake . i'd also like to have a king cobra-but that's not gonna happen.

the only species of snake i really don't care for are ribbon snakes. it's been my personal experience that they're about as docile as a rabid pit bull- atleast mine were.

 

[oldhand]

Finally, a redhead that looked like Angie Everhardt or Marilu Henner wouldn't hurt, either. Could I keep them together in the same viv?

Of course you can. Just let me have their twins!! lol

My wish list over the next 2-3 years depending on space and coin:-

CRB
BRB
JCP
some BP's
Great plains Rats
King cobra (in my dreams maybee, i'll never get 1 but would love 1)
More corns and did i mention, even more corns

Thats my 3 year plan

 

[Chip]

Hmm. I like Indigos, but will settle for black milks for now. Almost as large and not NEARLY as smelly. I've got a thing for locality (if you haven't noticed). I'm amazed at the differences between isolated populations of the same species. I'm on a new computer and can't figure out how to shrink photos for the life of me, but will post some of my other snakes as soon as I can get my red-headed girlfriend to show me! :dgrin: As for the woma, she appears gravid, CAV! Holding my breath, I thought she was last year, too. :uhoh:

Lastly, yes, I believe that giant pythons and venomous snakes should be legal to sell, own, eat, make boots out of, you name it. I just hate that they are so widely sold in pet stores and purchased almost exclusively by people who have NO ability to care for the animal it's entire life.

 

[cka]

Have to echo the general sentiments about the biiiiiig snakes and ownership, and want to add Iguana's to that list...Nothing worse than an eager but unknowing new herper and their first herp, that $19.99 iggy from PetBlo...

Other than corns we have some black rats, which I love, and our carpet python, which is hands down is the house favorite...

 

[TBurkeIII]

these are some of the boas that we keep...the iguana lives in our back yard in key west...they are so beautiful but not indiginious to the area.

hope you like :spinner:

 

[Spirit]

I have a bp, but I'd love to have a blood python or a boa (not sure which). If (big if) I ever do get another snake, it will for sure be my last (3 is more than enough for me).

Aside from those though, I'm not into the largest of the pythons, but I do like jungles, carpets, hoggies, and just about everything boa related. Now that I have my cornsnake, I love him to pieces (I'm never going to give him up), but had I know much about them in the first place, I probably would not have got one. Colubrids don't do too much for me, but some of their colors/patterns sure do look pretty.

 

[TBurkeIII]

here are a few more varieties that we produce :duck: