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Does any one know of any that arn't to expensive

If only this first group are rare or unusual then the answer is no. But if any of the second group are rare or unusual then the answer is yes!

Not cheap
porphyracea coxi
prophyracea vaillanti
mandarina
prasina
frenata
rosaliae
conspicillata
situla
longissima
triaspis
moellendorfi
persica
hohenackeri

Not expensive
guttata
obsoleta
subocularis
vulpina
bairdi
bimaculata
helena
taeniura
carinata
climacophora
dione
flavirufa
oxycephala
quatuolineata
radiata
rufodorsata
scalaris
schrencki

Of course these are just my opinion on price. And I've left out some of the really unavailable ratsnakes.
Regards
John

I think that Elaphe Dione a very "Rare" ratsnake is, maybe more peoples have coxi than dione. Is is a very nice and lovely snake and is very active at daytime. Also this snake is not expencive. My dad and I have some of this nice species and a lot of variations like black and red to yellow and orange. We like to breed with this nice species and I hope you will think about it and buy some of this nice species (but it is hardly availible). You can always mail me about questions or say it to good people here on kingsnake.

Regards Gidi.

p.s. Take a look at my dad and my site www.elaphedione.com
Link

I've visited it before. Congratulations
Best regards
John

Well there are a few questions that go along with this.

What is your experience with snakes? What size are you looking for? What tempermant do you want?

When I got my first snake, I didn't want one that everyone had...like a corn or such. I started off with a licorice stick black ratsnake. Very docile, she's never even attempted to bite me, or taken an agressive stance. Then I got a black rat snake, which holds the genes to produce licorice sticks - in case i ever felt like trying to mate them.

Then I fell in love with jimmy's (draybar) texas bairdi ratsnakes. Got a pair of 'em.

I had always loved the blue beauties but didnt ever get one because I knew they were hard to control. I figured I had enough experience to get one.

None of these (except the black ratsnake) are extremly common. My texas bairdis were the cheapest, at 25 bucks each. My yearling black rat was 35, blue beauty 65, and licorice stick yearling 125. I'd reccomend any of them for a first snake (except the blue beauty.)
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Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat (Lola)
1.0 Black Rat (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds (Jose and Rosa)
0.1 Blue Beauty (Brunhilde)
1.0 Green Tree Python (Claudius)... coming soon

I have kept vairous snakes and lizards and have bred them but i want to keep something less common or more unusual