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Seeves1982
at Mon Jun 27 20:23:13 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Seeves1982 ]
Again you have to buy what you want. No one would want there son to get bit. And there's no way to ensure that it never happens. Matter of fact it's almost a sure thing that it is going to happen at some point. You just have to hope and do what you can to make sure that it's later than sooner, but just like limiting the risk by purchasing and animal you don't like, you can limit your risk by getting a calm adult who has been cared for and handled frequently then the chances of a strike are almost lower than with a hatchling known for it's good disposition. And again this wouldn't be realistic if you were looking for an adult Coral Glow ball python, but a rainbow or ball python you should be able to get cheap or free if you look in the classifieds and reptile shows and be a smart consumer and inspect and handle the animal before you purchase it. Now to answer your question between the two you have chose. To me the question is can you handle providing for the basic needs of the animal. I haven't looked up brazilian rainbows in years, but I believe they aren't arboreals, but they do like to have a branch to to lay on. Also I believe the temperatures are close to the same balls, maybe upper 90s at most which can easily be achieved with heat tape, lamps, and a space heater (if need be), but the big kicker for me would have been humidity. Balls need 40-60% humidity which is easily obtained for me. Natural humidity in my snake room is 40% in the winter and 60% in the summer so I don't have to do anything for humidity with ball pythons and always get single piece clean sheds. Where as with brazilian rainbows you need to have 90% humidity which would be difficult to obtain in the summer and impossible in the winter. So you'd have to mist almost daily depending on your humidity. And I'm not into misting often. You can say I'm lazy or whatever you want. And because I don't want to mist doesn't mean I don't clean or care for my animals. I just don't want to have to mist. It's just something I didn't want to do. So I didn't pick a snake that required that much humidity. Anyway that's my long winded explanation, but I don't think you should shy away from a species that you want just because they're nippy as babies. With the exception of rat snakes and maybe green tree pythons or something else that is notorious for being aggressive, not just nippy. Or Burmese or Retics which get too large for a single person to handle safely. Balls and Brazilians are not known for being aggressive and neither get extremely large. I believe max average on both is around 6ft.
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RE: To Sum it All Up - Seeves1982, Mon Jun 27 20:23:13 2011