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I saw a pair of ~3 foot red tail green rat snakes at a local pet shop the other day...$80/ea. They have an ATTITUDE!!!! is this normal for a red tail or not? I'm not looking into getting any more lol...just wondering on the species.
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Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)

I've only met one personally, and it was the meanest snake I've ever met hands down. That's saying a lot, because living in southeast Texas I've met several Texas Rats, and as you know those guys are far from congenial.
I think the main problem with them is that most of the red tails you see are wild caught imports that are stressed from the trip and perhaps even more strained from parasites and other usual conditions common in wild caught snakes.
There's a lot of people on this forum that are changing that. I wonder if captive bred greenies are similar in behavior.
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my new cb 1.2 are a little bit snappy,but seems they are calming down.the old cb pair I had was like guttata, the female never tried to bite me and the male was only a little shy. I don't handle my snakes and the new females are sisters of my old pair, so I think that their temperament depends besids the wc-cb matter also to the way they are keep (feed, temperature, stress)regards
nazzza

Like Nazza I don't handle my Gonyosoma spp. Other than when I first started snake keeping that has never really been something that was important to me - even for species like cornsnakes.

Gonyosoma can be terrors, that for sure, and I suspect it's more than them just being wild caught.

I have one male that was captive hatched from a field-inseminated female. He's very aggressive.

I also have four Gonyosoma janseni that are true captive bred and born specimens. They were handled by the previous owner and had calmed down a bit. But now that I've had them for several months they've reverted back to being as aggressive as any other Gonyosoma I keep. That might have something to do with my current setups, I don't know.

I guess I'm really not the best person to ask.
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Current snakes:

1.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

3.4 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

I've got wild caughts and captive borns (not captive breds). None of them are handled, and they are all nasty. My experience is that females are a bit more evilish than males, don't know about the rest of gonyo keepers.

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