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Hello. this is my first time on internet so sorry. I am 27 and live in Hobart. I have a turtle and some hermit crabs that I keep in a shoebox under my bed I want a snake but have to wait until I move out of home. Can retculated snakes live in a bedroom with a heater or do they need a box thank you Allan.

Welcome to the forum! Hate to say it, but a reticulated python would be an awful first snake. Intelligent (for snakes), incredibly powerful, highly instinctive and they can grow to twenty feet. And if even a half grown reticulated python got angry or mistook you for food, it wouldn't matter how sorry it was afterward...

Yes, they could live in a very well heated room with high humidity, (think jungle) but you wouldn't be able to live in the same room. For safety reasons.

A very strong cage, (8 feet or longer) would be far preferable.

And speaking of cages, do you mean that your pets are all in a shoebox together under your bed??? That's not good for them. At all.

Get your little crabs out from under your bed, into a nice terrarium where you can see, watch, and enjoy them. And get your turtle some UV light to bask under to keep him healthy and fix up a large terrarium with a natural type habitat to run around in! Or swim, depending on the species.

Make sure your current pets are very well set up before getting new ones.

A smaller snake like a corn snake, garter snake, king snake or ball python would make a much better first pet snake. They'll need a secure cage with a safe heating element, water dish, places to hide and so on, but they'd be easier, calmer and safer than a reticulated python.
And good luck.
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Um Box? Lol Or something like it. Retics are not a beginner snake. Get a Ball python, a carpet python, or a corn/milk/king snake.
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Pat
1.1 (100% het albino) Retics
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"I am 27 and live in Hobart. I have a turtle and some hermit crabs that I keep in a shoebox under my bed I want a snake but have to wait until I move out of home."

Can I ask you a more personal question, your 27, live at home and keep your pets in a shoebox under your bed why?
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Pat
1.1 (100% het albino) Retics
1.1 Coastal Carpet Pythons

Hello and thank you for writing back to me. it is good to find nice people on the internet. Mr worldsocold my turtle flash doesn’t stay under the bed with harry and sally. he stays in a fish tank at night and we tie him up in the backyard during the day. I hide harry and sally from mum because she said she dosent want crabs again. I live at home because where else would I live. are retciulated snakes bad.I want a big snake. could a ball snake be big enuf to eat a bunny or a cat? Allan.

No, Balls wouldn't be able to. A large female carpet could take a very small bunny. A scrub python coud take a bunny. Stay away from retics, rocks, burms and annaconda's, these are not beginner snakes. Your 27, you should live maybe on your own? Your own house? thats why I asked, i just found it out a 27 year old lived at home still. why is your turtle tied up in the backyard? Its not a dog. You can't do that with a snake, have you even asked "mum" if you can have a snake?
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Pat
1.1 (100% het albino) Retics
1.1 Coastal Carpet Pythons

Mr worldsocold. what do you mean carpet.I like annacondas. have you seen conan. thereis a sweet snake in that but it gets hacked up. annacondas make me tink of that snake. it is ok for 27 year olds to love their mum and live with them. she said i could get one if i clean the cellar but i dont like it down there. tomany scary costumes from birthday partys. flash has a chain so he wont get away he can still play in the dam or lay in the grass if he wants. mr worldsocold do you have a tirtle because maybe you need a chain so you dont loose it. thank you for writing to me. Allan

"I hide harry and sally from mum because she said she dosen't want crabs again."

Dear Mr. Bombatta,
You are such a joker. I love the movie Conan the Barbarian, and I am so glad that Arnold is governor. Stop messing around on the forum. You should look into getting a female green anaconda, or maybe something a little smaller like an inland taipan, sea snake, or saw-scaled viper. I'm sure mum would appreciate those snakes.
Happy Herping,
Niko
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Yes, Inland Taipan is indeed the snake for you or a red spitting cobra. If you read my post, you will see my name is attatched to my signature.
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Pat
1.1 (100% het albino) Retics
1.1 Coastal Carpet Pythons