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Hey. I have a friend looking to get a new pet. I'm trying to narrow down some species that would be good for her (this would be her first snake...but she's had experience with them through me). She seems pretty fascinated by snakes with alot of white. Out of good, beginner, handleable species, what fits the bill there?

How are Leucistic Texas Rat Snakes.

Funny...she's opposite of me. I have a thing for black snakes (I have an eastern indigo).

thanks,

Josh

Woops....meant to put that on the general forum.

But since I mentioned a Texas Rat....I guess it's all right

...if you are looking for a very good disposition/handling snake and for very/all white I'd suggest a blizzard sonoran gophersnake.

The leucitic rat snakes might be as good but I haven't personally handled them so I am not sure how handling friendly they are.

A few suggestions...

- leucistic Texas Ratsnake - some are easy to handle, others...not so much

- Blizzard froms of Gophersnake, Cal King, and Cornsnake although none of these are as white as a TX Ratsnake

- If you have some extra money laying around, the piebald Ball Pythons are gorgeous snakes that are partially white.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Corn snakes, a type of rat snake, make good first snakes because they are usually very mellow. There are blizzard corns also, which start out pink and end up mostly white as adults. Here's one that will be 2 years old this summer. -Toby

Like the above post said, a Blizzard corn would be perfect, extremely docile. Even a nice looking snow might suffice.

If you're thinking of the Leucistic Texas Rat though, go for it, Texas rats are supposed to have pretty bad attitudes, I have 3 and all of them are as calm as my corns. Get a baby, raise it up, handle it, if it bites as a baby, dont' pull away, let it learn that you will continue to hold it and that it doesn't need to fear, LTR's are especially beautiful as adults! If you don't handle a Texas rat, I would assume their attitude would begin to show.

Snow Corn

Leucistic Texas Rat

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5.9 Corns
1.1 San Diego Gophers
1.1 Sonoran Gophers
1.0 Cape Gopher
1.0 Southern Pine
1.1 Bulls
1.4 Texas Rats
1.2 Everglades Rats
1.2 Yellow Rats
1.1 Grey Rats
1.1 Black Rats
2.5 Cal. Kings
1.2 Gray-Banded Kings

I have a 6 ft female who is just fantastic, completely docile.

I have two 06's who are fast and jumpy, but they'll calm down.

is that shirt your wearing the band nevermore?
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0.0.1 Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
1.0 Amelanistic greatplains ratsnake
0.1 Greatplains ratsnake
0.1 Amelanistic Cornsnake
1.1 Everglades Ratsnake
0.1 Greenish ratsnake
1.1 Speckled kingsnake
1.1 eastern garters
1.1 stripeless garters
1.0 blue onestriped northwestern garter
0.1 Red sided gartersnake
1.1 anoles
0.0.1 tokay gecko
0.1 graceful chamelion
1.0 green iguana
and a bangin @ss drumset