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i am looking for a type of snake that is a
good feeder
good bree
can live a pair in a 20 long
and can be handled
thanx in advance
chris

Some sort of sand boa, probably.

African House Snakes are another option, though a 20 long would be a little small for them once they got to adult size. There's a good care sheet here on kingsnake.
Maybe some of the smaller garters...
Lora

it would depend on your experince but as a beginning snake i would recomened the corn snake.......
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no way the way no limit the limit

I agree a corn or a nelson milksnake would be a good starter snake. I wouldn't keep a male and female together though unless you want them to breed. Make sure the female isn't to young and too small to have eggs. If they breed to young the female could have some serious problems. Just my opinion.
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SpardaWolf
1.0 okeetee-Sparda
1.0 pastel motley-Peeper
0.1 anerythristic-Piper
1.0 amel-Stripe
1.0 ball python-Cobra

There is alot of work that goes in to breeding. Keeping 1.1 together is poor breeding practice. Your chances for sucess would greatly increase if you keep the pair seprate and introduce them when its time to breed.

Now, if your looking for a good starter snake a Corn Snake would make a good first time pet. Find out if snake keeping is for you, read ALOT, try to vist somones facility and find which species is right for you. As for a 20gal long... I wouldn reccomend any fish tank for any snake. As they expell heat and moisure extreamly easily. "Fish tanks are for fish" is what I like to tell people.

Also, i would highly reccomend you staying away from cohabitation with any snake. This will make your life 300 times easier. To many problems arise from keeping snakes together, then the benifit you would get from saving the space. Put them together when your breeding time comes up .

Feel free to give me an email if you have any questions. i would be happy to point you in the right direction.

Julian Garcia
Chondros Exquisite
Seattle,WA