For all you Snake-Huggers, and those that are scared but curious

[TwistedSerpent]

Thought I'd share some pictures, I have been keeping and breeding snakes for about 15 years.

Please if you have any negitive comments keep them to yourself, you wouldnt like someone saying 'eww gross' and such over pictures of your beloved pets so I ask the same.

So why snakes you ask? Just like 'why chickens', some people just have a larger capacity to respect, understand, and even love some of these unconventional creatures. They are extremely fascinating, having for ages adapted to life with no limbs, and you have to admit some are outright beautiful. Besides who can complain about a pet that makes no noise, sheds in one piece once every few months, isnt demanding, eats once a week or less, poops once a week or less, doesnt stink, doesnt require training, and doesnt require socializetion - in fact they prefer to be left alone. You can go on vacation and leave them without a problem. Not to mention how benefitial they are in the wild, one of natures best rodent controls.

Everyones probably familier with the black rat -

Blizzard cornsnake, which is a combination of two morphs-

100 flower ratsnake, very rare Asian species-

Silver red tailed green ratsnake-

Baird's Ratsnake-

Cave Dwelling ratsnake-

Ultramel Cornsnake

Ghost (lighter) and charcoal corns-

Bloodred corn-

 

[TwistedSerpent]

Spider ball python-

Children's python Full grown at about 3 feet, native to Australia-

Pastel ball python-

White-lipped python, an Indonesian python-

Albino boa-

Albino Burmese python, about 12 feet long, 60lbs, and 9 years old-

Savu python, found only on a small Asian island with very few in the wild still remaining-

Reticulated python, longest species in the wold-

North Mexican Pinesnake-

California Kingsnake -

An odd little Honduran Milksnake-

AN Albino Honduran Milksnake-

Anery Honduran Milksnake-

Splotched Sinaloan Milksnake-

Kilamanjaro lined African house snake-

Needless to say, any color or pattern you can think of can be found in the snake world, one way or another.

 

[Skyesrocket]

They really are beautiful. My husband and I have always had snakes. We have 3 ball pythons and a burmese right now. We have introduced a lot of people to holding their first snake over the years. Many think they are wet and slimy until they actually hold one.

 

[Moabite]

Thanks for sharing. Pretty things. My favorite snakes are these little tiny "sandsnakes" I found near Phoenix. They were bright orange with back bands and had a yellow belly. The biggest one I found was about 7 inches long and the smallest one was the size of a .7 mm pencil lead. Ever heard or seen one?

 

[Goat_Walker]

anyway you can show us pictures of their enclosures? Ive always wanted a snake - But with ducklings, pet rats, hamsters, and mice in the house it wasnt smiled upon by mom.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Wait. Hold the phone. Are you telling me that ALL Californian Kingsnakes look like that one?!

 

[TwistedSerpent]

It is great getting people to touch them for the first time and shatter those stereotypes, I used to volunteer for the MN herp society and take my guys to do shows and such.

There's a variable sand snake as well as a few shovelnose snakes that look very similier to them out there, I love those tiny flashy little guys.

 

[NurseELB]

I wonder if the mods would sticky this so people can check which snake ate their eggs/ chickens?

 

[OccamsTazer]

Marvelous!
I love snakes. We have a tremendous grey rat snake that lives in our bamboo, her name is Big Mama.
We don't have rat problems.

 

[TwistedSerpent]

California kings are extremely variable, theres the classic black and white banded, to yellow and brown banded, to black and white abherrent pattern (like mine) to yellow and brown abherrent pattern, as well as stripes from head to tail in the range of black and white to brown and yellow (not including a couple morphs in the pet trade). Its pretty much a locality thing, Cali's from a certain area will tend to have the same look which may differ from another area.

My enclosures are nothing spectacular or show worthy, fact is as long as you keep them warm and as humid or as dry as they need theyre happy in just about anything. I keep mine in rubbermaid plastic containers either stacked or on a bookshelf-like rack, and the bigger ones get custom made enclosures. Depending on the species a tank would work just as good. The key is keep them safe and secure and you will have no issues at all with other animals. When the snake cant get out, the other animals cant get in, and neither come in contact with each other then nothing can happen.

A picture of my room before I moved, or moreso just a corner. The big wooden rack is 6ft tall and about 3 feet wide, on the left the small black cages are 4 feet long and the large ones under are 6 feet long. -

And other corners-