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Which Ratsnake is most arboreal of all North American Ratsnakes
and do any actually prefer to stay in branches instead of a
floor hidebox if an overhead heat source or heat panel is set up like with a typical amazon tree boa set-up???? Thanks, Norm

Any of the obsoleta subspecies would definitely count as the most arboreal, and based on my field experience I'd say the yellow and possibly the grey are a bit more tree-loving than the rest.....
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

My 5-foot Texas rat has a tree in his cage that extends abuot halfway up to the top, where there is a geat lamp. He frequently curls up on the top of the tree for hours underthe malp, and will also go into the hide apceunder it. When mobile (which he often is) he will crawl up and over the treea great deal ofthe time. I have even fed him in the tree, offering F/T mice on tongs which he eagerly snaps up and swallows perched there. They do love to climb . . .

>>Any of the obsoleta subspecies would definitely count as the most arboreal, and based on my field experience I'd say the yellow and possibly the grey are a bit more tree-loving than the rest.....
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>>Brad Chambers
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>>The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

If I was to actuallu put them in order I would probably have to say
yellow
grey
black and Texas about the same
they will all spend time in trees.
We had a black rat near the shop that spent over two weeks in a tree. There was a bird nest in a hollow in the tree. The black rat went into the hole, ate the babies and moved in.
For a couple of weeks we could look up there and see his head reasting at the opening watching his territory.
and corn snakes as well.
A lot of people say corns don't climp but they do.
They will climp a tree to get to bird eggs just as easily and quickly as the obsoletas.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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>>If I was to actuallu put them in order I would probably have to say
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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My glades rat loves to perch and spends 80% of his time "up". He also has a nice double-decker hide to provide thermic options. A very cool and active snake.

...and out for a romp (later found him high up in the adjacent closet tucked away in the bottom of a box.

My Baird's will climb a bit but generally winds up on the floor in the back of my closet.

I think they have to be the prettiest American ratsnake...does anyone produce a very bright yellow yellow rat with distict dark stripes. I would love to see photos of that. I just wonder what domestic snakes I would get if the a$$holes in washington ever outlaw my boas....I gotta have something that perches alot....
don't want snakes that hide all day....

Nice! Peruvian?

Gorgeous emerald there. I did see a stunning yellow recently but can't remember if it was here or on in the classifieds. In either case, there are a few very yellow, clean stripers around...somewhere anyway.

Your Glades rat is really nice, what are the dimensions of the cage you have him in? Thanks!

Thanks ...it's in a 18" W, 24" H Exo-terra...seems plenty. What I'm going to do is wallpaper the back and sides with grass cloth to give him more privacy...but I don't think he really cares.

Deckert's, Everglades, Gulf Hammok, Yellow, and Gray are all highly aboreal along with Corn snakes. Black, Texas, Baird's, Emory, and Trans Pecos Ratsnakes seem to be moderately to highly aboreal as well. Can't leave those Western Green Rats out of the picture, or Rosaliae, or Flavirufa.

This particular suboc loves to climb and perch.