Personally, I think you need to do more research and find what exactly it is that strikes that cord with you and more importantly why. What's your motivation for getting something so different? Is it the challenge of caring for something that there is not much known about? The status of having something venomous, but not really dangerous? So many of the commonly available snakes are absolutely beautiful and have very interesting personalities and habits. By default, they are also often captive-bred and come in a myriad of different color and pattern morphs and are often bred for temperament as well .

With that said, I have some less commonly available snakes that I hope to learn more about and hopefully breed and make available. My "oddballs" are Spilotes pullatus aka tiger rat snakes, two different species of Telescopus (tiger snakes from Africa - rear-fanged but not dangerous) and amazon tree boas (not really oddballs, but less common than alot of the snakes you mentioned). None of the above are cuddly snakes and I saw in one of your posts that you weren't sure about an amazon because of their temperaments. Again, I ask you what your motivation is? If you want something to show off to your friends and handle all the time and not worry about being bitten, stick to something of the more common variety. Due to the very nature of what you are looking for, many of the less commonly available snakes are not very good "pet" snakes. If they were, they would be more commonly available. Many are a challenge to work with due to dietary needs, size, temperament, etc. So you see, it might be that you can't have it both ways.

Well, I guess I've rambled enough, so here's some pics...

Billy

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