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I want the biggest Black snake as a pet - So who would you recomend as a display animal ?

Black Pine
Indigo
Black Rat
Mangrove
Black King -Mexican Black Milk

Of your list, black rat or mangrove. They are more black than indigos or pines They're big and impressive, and will give you a good run for your money if you try to pick them up. If you ask me, a hissing, 6-foot obseleta is about as impressive you can get.

crocacutus

I say spend the money and go for the indigo, or even black pine!! Both are VERY large and beefy, and good ones are just as black as a black rat. Bigger in general than black rats, and definitely more bang for the buck if you get one with attitude!! Think about it, a full grown indigo can easily crush a VERY large rat to death in its jaws and break bones!! Thats the way to play IMO!!! Both are good eaters in general as well, and actually both have decent personalities.

>>Of your list, black rat or mangrove. They are more black than indigos or pines They're big and impressive, and will give you a good run for your money if you try to pick them up. If you ask me, a hissing, 6-foot obseleta is about as impressive you can get.

You are making me a little jealous. Although I've got a lot of rats on and around my property, they have all been the humdrum mottledy-grey obsoleta spiloides -- none of the nice black obsoleta obsoleta. They still have the size and the attitude, though!
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
0.0.1 Mexican black kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

I've actually never kept either species, just know about them from people I know and from research.

crocacutus

Black milk snake. They get up to 5 or 6 feet (maybe larger). Start as tri-color, then turn jet black. See Dniles posts in the milk snake forum, then go to his website for some good pics.
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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase
1.1 Oregon rubber boas

If you don't mind selling your house to get it, I remember a few years back that one of the big breeders had at least one totally black reticulated python...
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

Yes, that was Bob Clark's Burmese. It really isn't quite SOLID black per se, but it is definitely very hyper-melanistic with the pattern just being discernable.

Very unique indeed!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Mangrove are rear fanged with non life threatening but non trivial venom. If you're not experienced with snakes may not want that.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

LOL!,...yeah, I'll bet this dude wished that he took them more seriously too..

from a Mangrove Snake(Boiga dendrophila)...ARRRGH!!

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

yeah. I mean, it won't kill you (unless you've got a sensitivity) but it sure as hell doesn't look fun from the bite photos I've seen. pretty though.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

....yeah, one of the most beautiful snakes in the world if you ask me.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com