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what would it be? Mine would have to be a copperhead. Not that theyre expensive I just dont think I could handle it but I think they are gorgeous.

Oh man,
Black headed python...hands down.

Right now, my snake of obession is the Dharman Ratsnake [Ptyas mucosa, Ptyas korros], unfortunately no one seems to sell them in the pet trade. If you're unfamiliar with them, they are a large [10 ft. plus] colubrid that can be found all throughout the region of the Indian subcontinent. They're drab brownish in color and are often mistaken for cobras. Apparently very pugnacious too. *Sigh*, just wish some one would import some.
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Matt Campbell
Animal Keeper, Small Mammal/Reptile House
Lincoln Park Zoo Chicago, Illinois

Assistant Curator
Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, Illinois

My dream snake would be one of Greg Maxwell's high blue Chondros such as Aquaman. See pic: http://www.finegtps.com/Aquaman.htm

Sweet!

Oh man, if your gonna dream, dream big - I would have to own a pair of each native North American snake!!!!! LOL Could you imagine the "Snake Room" to house that???? More like "Snake House"!!

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1.0 Corn snake (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes (MO locale)
1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Yellow rat snake (Dwight Good stock)
1.1 California king snake (Coastal phase)
1.0 Prairie king snake (KY locale)
0.1 Black king snake (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade (KY locale)

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

I have kept all my dream snakes except one. That would be the African Mole Snake: Pseudodaspis cana. While a common snake where they come from, very few make it to the USA and those are extremely over priced.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

>>I have kept all my dream snakes except one. That would be the African Mole Snake: Pseudodaspis cana. While a common snake where they come from, very few make it to the USA and those are extremely over priced.

I had a jet black WC Mole Snake for a little under a year (it died of some mysterious ailment). It was one of the coolest beasts I have ever owned, and I have kept a LOT of different snakes!

This is the only pic I ever took of my favorite snake. I tried like heck to find a female for it, but this was back in the days before the internet, and searching was difficult.

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Chris Harrison

Sorry about the loss. It looks Awsome!

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

Glades Herps has one currently posted for 125.00

Jeff

Any of the following:

Cave Ratsnake
Albino Ball Python
Angolan Python
Black Headed Python
Thai Bamboo Ratsnake
Jaquar Carpet Python
Hog Island BCI
Woma
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1.0 Ball Python "Aragorn"
1.0 Kenyan Sand Boa "Gimli"
1.0 Saharan Sand Boa "Frodo"
0.1 Rough-Scale Sand Boa "Arwen"
0.1 California Kingsnake "Gentoo"
1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Indigo"
1.0 Snow Corn snake "Chile"

0.0.1 Crested Gecko
0.0.1 Irian Jaya BlueTongued Skink

0.1 Australian Cattle Dog/Pointer
"Kira"

This is a hard question to answer. I am not generally interested in the high end morphs a lot of people pursue. Believe it or not I really like my Garters and would always want some in my collection. A "dream" snake of mine would be the Two-Striped Garter. I grew up around these in southern Calif and they have a nostalgic value for me but they are now protected in Calif where they are found so I can not acquire any. I have always admired Cantils but I am not a hot keeper and my state does not allow their import. I might get into some of the Western Rat Snakes and maybe some Mexican Pituophis.

When I get out of the house and feel trained enough...:

Gaboon Viper
Northern Copperhead
Eyelash Viper
Brazlilian Rainbow Boa
Emerald Tree Boa

Not all of those are overly difficult... but I don't have the space and can't keep venomous right now (for many reasons).

I couldn't name just one
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Current Collection:
0.1 Antherystic Elaphe Guttata Guttata - Corn Snake
1.0 Elaphe Vulpina Gloydi - Eastern Fox Snake
0.1 Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta - Black Rat Snake
0.1 Leucistic Elaphe Obsoleta Linheimeri - Texas Ratsnake
1.1 Morelia Spilota Cheyni - Jungle Carpet Python

Care to take a gues at what it is. Frank, give some of the newbies an opportunity!

Although I have all six of the "available" subs within this complex, these are still my favorites!

Jeff

Np
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

I would love to own that guy, hes soo cool!!!!! I wont be ownin an albino chondro anytime soon so I guess I already own my dream snakes, Chondros!!!!

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1.1.1 Blue tongue skinks- Sausage the IJ, Don the Indo, and Spunky Sabastian the Tanimbar
1.0.1 Green Tree Python- Floyd and Verdi
0.1 Western Hognose- Piggy
0.0.1 Sonoran Gopher snake- Toro
0.0.1 Ornate Uro- Spike
0.0.1 Egyptian Tortoise- Tank
0.1 Albino Leo Gecko- Sasha

Well, what do you know, I guess no one took a peek, or they have no clue as to what kind of snake she is!
Frank, you may spill the beans if you wish, but you only have 24 hours to do so! LOL

Jeff

Rubidis?? Beautiful animal! looks like it has a lot of personality.

Bob.

WOW! I am impressed.. Someone here knows their Drymarchon, other then Frank! ;0)
Yeah, that is one of my male D. c rubidus (Mexican red-tail cribo)Rare then hens teeth, as Fred Albury likes to refer to them, I currently have 4.4 of these guys, including 1.1 of the mottled form..

Great job!

Jeff

But I didn't realize they were THAT rare. I check up on you DRY guys. You run A cool forum. It didn't really sink in until now that while I probably wont be able to own an Eastern Indigo, I stand an even smaller chance of the next best thing. Congratulations,I hope you realize how blessed you are to be able to work with such sharp animals! Enjoy. Bob.

About a year and a half ago, I was shooting a little documentary about snakes here in the Houston area for the local PBS station. It was my pleasure to include Paul Freed of the Houston zoo in that piece. As he was showing me all the interesting animals there, he asked me what I had in my collection. I told him about my cal kings, my albino bulls, but when I mentioned my subocs, he lit up. "Well, those are interesting", he said.
Everybody that comes over to look at my snakes love the subocs. That's fine with me, because above all the critters I love the subocs the most. Don't get me wrong, all the snakes get the same care as the subocs, but those are the ones that would stay if I had to get rid of all the others. Suffice it to say, I love subocs.
So, in answer to the question, if I had my choice, I would take any morph of the suboc. Particulary, I think the blonde phase is beautiful.
Cheers!

I have mine, green Vines Snakes. they are awesome eat rodents and are harmless. I would also like to keep(successfully) tentacled snakes(Herpeton tentaculatum. I try once and failed.

If you could own just one snake...

For my I'm living it. I'm a student and don't have the space or time for more than one animal...but I have the one animal I've always wanted, an Eastern Indigo.

albino bermese! they are so beautiful. maybe some day...

Or a Yellow anaconda..but I just absolutely love the Indigos....I know I will never get one but I can dream..
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2.0 Ball Pythons (Titus and Hercules)
1.0 Western Hognose (Fuego)
0.1 cornsnake (Strawberry)
0.2 Bearded dragons (itchy and scratchy)
0.1 Rosehair T. (Jigglypuff)
1.0 dog BC..(Kippy)
2.1 cats (Thomas,Sunflower,Diablo(Boo))
0.0.1 American Toad (squidward)

I would have to say a lavander tiger retic. Those snakes are sumpin else. No space tho, and not nearly enough money. More realisticly, i would love to keep a piebald ball python. Alittle less realistically (money wise) would be the diamond leusistic ball. Most likely in my future, i see a GTP...that is not *quite* my dream snake as listed above, but i think that they are amazing and are becomming more and more affordable as time goes on. Honestly, tho, i wouldnt give up my first snake for ANY of those listed above. My normal (albiet more yellow than most) BP Azazel. Best snake ever to slither the earth.
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"raised by a cup of coffee"

1.0 ball python- Azazel
1.0 columbian boa- Brooklyn
1.0 red blood python-Hiss
1.0 peach phase thayeri-Sancho
0.1 creamsicle corn- Pandora
0.1 partial stripe ghost corn- Raven
1.0 Sunglow motley corn-Ernie
1.1 hognose- Pricilla and Odd
0.1 russian tortoise- Manja
0.1 collared lizard-O-ren
0.1.1 leos- Boji and Kodama
0.1 beardie- Indie
1.0 BTS- Griffon
0.1 Iggy- Sunny
0.0.2 Red american toadlets with 0.0.7 legs total (er, i have one w/3....)
0.0.1 gray tree frog toadlet
0.0.6 land snails
0.0.2 millipedes of unknown species from TN
0.0.1 spotted slug
5.3 bettas
0.1 pacific parrolet- Mishka
1.1 cats- Cairo and Oberon
2.3 ratties Rizzo, Bounce, Bree, Blitzkreig, and Zelda

n/p

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"raised by a cup of coffee"

1.0 ball python- Azazel
1.0 columbian boa- Brooklyn
1.0 red blood python-Hiss
1.0 peach phase thayeri-Sancho
0.1 creamsicle corn- Pandora
0.1 partial stripe ghost corn- Raven
1.0 Sunglow motley corn-Ernie
1.1 hognose- Pricilla and Odd
0.1 russian tortoise- Manja
0.1 collared lizard-O-ren
0.1.1 leos- Boji and Kodama
0.1 beardie- Indie
1.0 BTS- Griffon
0.1 Iggy- Sunny
0.0.2 Red american toadlets with 0.0.7 legs total (er, i have one w/3....)
0.0.1 gray tree frog toadlet
0.0.6 land snails
0.0.2 millipedes of unknown species from TN
0.0.1 spotted slug
5.3 bettas
0.1 pacific parrolet- Mishka
1.1 cats- Cairo and Oberon
2.3 ratties Rizzo, Bounce, Bree, Blitzkreig, and Zelda

A lot of nice choices! I've kept a lot of animals over the years but right now I'm really enjoying some plain black snakes, exceptionally black Mex. Black kings and Black milks.Sweet personalities, awesome plain underated and often overlooked beauty.It's impossible to keep them all. Good herping.

Bob.

my dream snake would be a hypo coastal plains milksnake