Hognoses are not good for beginners, and there is a good reason for that. They are troublesome feeders and I can see too many situations where a newbie would know what to do or how to do it properly. With corns, you often get a snake the feeds EVERYTIME and they are a good way to learn the basics. Besides, I have found that people who buy animals because of their looks are the ones that have the most trouble (example: people who buy dart frogs and red-eye treefrogs). Do a search on non-feeding hognoses and you will see the difficulty in keeping hognoses. You should buy according to your experience, not to aesthetics.

As far as venom, I don't have any links on this computer, but this question gets asked repeatedly and you would have no trouble finding information if you searched this forum.
-----
*Humans aren't the only species on earth... we just act like it.

".the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without
spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

[ Show Entire Thread ]