Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Hey, what is your favorite milk snake? I am going to the L.A. reptile expo next weekend and want to buy a milksnake - tell me what type is really cool. So far i like mex milk, new mex milk, utah milk, and az milk ---- do you think any of these will be available at the show?

A

I personally like easterns (l t triangulum) but you won't see any of those.

North American milks are hard to come across but there are people who breed them, you just might have to search a bit. Mexican milks (annulata) are beautiful and common.

crocacutus

Just don't have the room for them all. My favorite would have to be a tricolor hypo honduran.

Do you specifically want a North American milk, or do you just want something flashy, or do you want something easy to handle, or what??

I am not ANY kind of milk expert, but I'll tell you what I happen to like. In North American milks, I am always impressed when I see pics of syspila. Very beautiful snakes. For showy milks in general, I really like Hondurans. Good size, blinding colors, easy to maintain, and fairly good to handle (they tend to be squiggly but not aggressive). But it all depends on what characteristics are important to you!
-----
----

0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
1.3.1 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari, TBA)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
0.0.1 Mexican black kingsnake (Mora)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

Things that are important to me are handleability, natural looking (many crossovers etc, no mutants), vivid tricolors, small size... at this point i am leaning away from hondurans and sinaloans and toward anulata (or mtn king) -

What is the personality and temperment of an anulata?

make sure you buy a pair that has eaten at least 3 times.Ask the seller if he will put a pinky in the deli cup. I agree with doc I like syspila(red milks)Pyros are even more striking and they retain the red and white as they age.Milks offen do not retain the bright colors they show as subadults

Last two pics are mt kings form Az

-----
"He's down in the basement staring at his snakes " My Wife

--< : < > < > < > < > < >~~~

Doug L

Are my eyes deceiving me or did the snake in the first pic get decapitated about 3 inches down give or take?

-----
~Markus

The very existence of flamethrowers means that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves..."You know, I really want to set those people over there on fire...but I'm just not close enough to get the job done!

thats funny. no man thats just a bit of schmutz

-----
"He's down in the basement staring at his snakes " My Wife

--< : < > < > < > < > < >~~~

Doug L

Oh ok whew haha!!! Totally looked like he was in two pieces
-----
~Markus

The very existence of flamethrowers means that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves..."You know, I really want to set those people over there on fire...but I'm just not close enough to get the job done!

...looked funny ....

shmootz.....Amish?....

we call the waterless hand cleaner stuff shmootz.....

.....but I actually LIVE in Amish country....so it goes unnoticed here.....
-----
................JY

male....

I like campbelli too, well, syspilas...I have like 7....well...extreme hypo hondos...no...pales....but then sinaloans have more red.....crap.....LOL....7 foot gaigeae?...

....all 26 ssp are cool.....
-----
................JY

My favorite by far is the New Mexico Milk. I have a beautiful pair, along with a clutch of 6 babies that I am working on getting started. They are chellenging as babies, but the parents are aggressive feeders.

-----
Greg Jackson

Everyone has their favorite form. Mine, for example, is multistrata. Others like syspila, gaigeae, gentilis, or campbelli.

As for what'll be available, I'd put money on the table that there'll be a puacity of North American forms. You may see a few annulata or a "temporalis" or two, but your chances of seeing any of the others are slim to none. Sinaloan, Nelson's, Pueblan, and Honduran milks will predominate the triangulum group, but will probably be overshadowed by the vast numbers of Ball Pythons, Boas, etc.

-Cole

L. t. multistrata X gentilis - Weld Co., CO

Celaenops

I would love to see a polyzona on the market, however, I have never seen any polyzonas ever. If anyone has one, I would love to see a picture. I do have a campbelli, however, I personally feel that they are rather fast for milksnakes and their attitudes make them unique.