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I know what several of you have (at least if you posted it and I remember), but what other than a Rainbow do you keep snake-wise?

Personally all I have are BRB's. A couple Hogs would be what I think I'd choose, but I really like the Green Tree Pythons too.

As far as the "Hots" which I am no position to take on would be the Copperheads...I think they're beautiful.

Linda

Aside from Brazilian Rainbows, I have about 18 boas, not including the big pile of argentine babies due anytime, a carpet python cross that I believe is an integration of New Guinnea and Diamond python (maybe like 25% diamond) but it's anyones guess. I also have a nice little collection of corns that I haven't seen in 8 months because someone in Georgia thinks it's a bad idea to allow people to keep non-venomous indiginous snakes as pets. I'm working on a way around that though, and hopefully I won't go without them much longer. I actually had a couple of losses this year that is making 05 a little dull. I lost my adult male hypo bci during the move here along with my biggest female BRB, and apparently the het albino male I was using (18 months at the time) wasn't quite there yet. Oh, he tried, but I guess he shot blanks. By this winter my albino male certainly he be ready and I will finally produce some albinos and possibly some sunglows.....but really I just want to play with my cute little corn snakes....they're the best.....

In the past I've had a multitude of rat snakes, kings, ball pythons, sand boas, burmese pythons, rubber boas, and, and, and..........I agree, if I were to get into hots, southern copperheads would be near the top of my list.....

Chris O
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Itseems so odd about the corn not being allowed to reside with you. We have rats, corns, bulls, hognose, etc, in Texas and we aren't restricted from keeping any of them. I didn't know you had so many BCI and liked corns. Corns are great little snakes. Sometimes I miss having one around....they're so cute, fun, and easy too.

Here is a striped creamsicle

I just thought it might make you want one.......
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Chris,
...Cute little Cornsnake. I used to breed Corns on and off from the sixties throught the eighties. Every one of them was a normal though. I found it pretty easy to get them to breed and produce good eggs. I thought I would transfer my success breeding Corns to boids and make a million dollars. The first few years breeding boids was very humbling and showed me the error in my thinking. As you have read I am not too keen about morph breeders. However, at some of the shows the bigger Cornsnake breeders will have dozens of different morphs on display and it is pretty interesting. Actually I like morphs. I just hate that so many people think they should be worth too much money. With the Corns at least they have been produced in such high numbers that most of them are very reasonably priced. They do make great pets.
Jeff

>>Here is a striped creamsicle
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>>I just thought it might make you want one.......
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Chris,
That pic does make me want one. That one in fact. It sure is a nice corn. It looks really nice. They really are nice snakes and I think alot of newbie snake (and ones with a few years under their belt too) kinda disregard them as "beginner types" and miss out on a whole lot. I have given away one animal in my life (not counting foster kittens) and it was an amelenistic corn that I carried home with a mouse from the pet shop when just trying to feed my adult reverse okeetee, gave it to a co-worker that still has it 4 years later and has since also taken on 4 adult iguanas and a BCI. I suppose I introduced her to snakes. I gave it to her as about a 3 or 4 month old so I could justify in my mind why I needed to buy that first pair of BRB's I saw when picking up that mouse. Now I have 6.7 BRB's and I want to convert the cat litter box room for a snake room.

How's that English Bulldog doing?

That's great...Corns really are a gateway drug. I think they're a lot of fun.

Logan (bull dog) is huge. He's already pushing 40lbs. Also lots of fun....but he's cured me from wanting any children!

Chris O
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Naked I see the camp of those who desire nothing

Dogs as birth control LOL Could be onto something there.
Randy

>>That's great...Corns really are a gateway drug. I think they're a lot of fun.
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>>Logan (bull dog) is huge. He's already pushing 40lbs. Also lots of fun....but he's cured me from wanting any children!
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>>Chris O
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I don't care if the glass is half full or half empty !
I just want the full glass I paid for !

>>That's great...Corns really are a gateway drug. I think they're a lot of fun.
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>>Logan (bull dog) is huge. He's already pushing 40lbs. Also lots of fun....but he's cured me from wanting any children!
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>>Chris O
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>>www.chrisolsonreptiles.com
>>Naked I see the camp of those who desire nothing

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Chris,
...Have you seen any Southern Copperheads here yet? I saw one last week in the woods behind my house and one a few weeks before that out at Skidaway Island State Park. With two hot bites in my history I do not think I will ever keep hot snakes but if I did the Southern Copperheads would be the ones.
Jeff

>>Aside from Brazilian Rainbows, I have about 18 boas, not including the big pile of argentine babies due anytime, a carpet python cross that I believe is an integration of New Guinnea and Diamond python (maybe like 25% diamond) but it's anyones guess. I also have a nice little collection of corns that I haven't seen in 8 months because someone in Georgia thinks it's a bad idea to allow people to keep non-venomous indiginous snakes as pets. I'm working on a way around that though, and hopefully I won't go without them much longer. I actually had a couple of losses this year that is making 05 a little dull. I lost my adult male hypo bci during the move here along with my biggest female BRB, and apparently the het albino male I was using (18 months at the time) wasn't quite there yet. Oh, he tried, but I guess he shot blanks. By this winter my albino male certainly he be ready and I will finally produce some albinos and possibly some sunglows.....but really I just want to play with my cute little corn snakes....they're the best.....
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>>In the past I've had a multitude of rat snakes, kings, ball pythons, sand boas, burmese pythons, rubber boas, and, and, and..........I agree, if I were to get into hots, southern copperheads would be near the top of my list.....
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>>Chris O
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>>www.chrisolsonreptiles.com
>>Naked I see the camp of those who desire nothing

No Copperheads yet. I went out to Rincon last week and saw 2 yellow rats and a garter snake....oh, and I saw the guy next door beating a huge female garter with a shovel....after he apparently sprayed it with Raid. Powerful ignorance. I'm lucky the guy didn't beat me up after the verbal weaponry I unleashed on him.....Thad was telling me about a good place to find Indigos and S. Copperheads...but I can't remember where he said it was....maybe Bryant County? Who knows.........

Chris O
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Naked I see the camp of those who desire nothing

Linda,
...I currently have a Diamond Python and 2 75% Diamond Crosses and 2 50% Diamond Jungle Crosses and a Jungle Carpet. My current Boas include 2.3 Surinam Redtails and 6 different subspecies of Rainbows. I also have a pair of Black Milksnakes. I have caught or kept over 100 different types of snakes.
Jeff

>>I know what several of you have (at least if you posted it and I remember), but what other than a Rainbow do you keep snake-wise?
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>>Personally all I have are BRB's. A couple Hogs would be what I think I'd choose, but I really like the Green Tree Pythons too.
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>>As far as the "Hots" which I am no position to take on would be the Copperheads...I think they're beautiful.
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>>Linda

>>Linda,
>>...I currently have a Diamond Python and 2 75% Diamond Crosses and 2 50% Diamond Jungle Crosses and a Jungle Carpet. My current Boas include 2.3 Surinam Redtails and 6 different subspecies of Rainbows. I also have a pair of Black Milksnakes. I have caught or kept over 100 different types of snakes.
>>Jeff
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>>>>I know what several of you have (at least if you posted it and I remember), but what other than a Rainbow do you keep snake-wise?
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>>>>Personally all I have are BRB's. A couple Hogs would be what I think I'd choose, but I really like the Green Tree Pythons too.
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>>>>As far as the "Hots" which I am no position to take on would be the Copperheads...I think they're beautiful.
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>>>>Linda
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I don't remember hearing about the milksnakes. With the incredible variety of species you have had experience with you must be snake-wise.

I'm mainly into rat snakes but I've kept a lot of different species over the years (very limited experience with hots) ... Currently keeping 1.1 Mandarins, 1.1 Rhynos a.k.a. Vietnamese long nosed rat snakes, 1.1 coxi, 0.1 Kunasir Island rat snake, 0.1 Leopard rat, 1.0 Taiwan Beauty, non rats are 1.1 BRBs (of course) 0.1 Coastal Carpet python, 1.1 Mexican Black King Snakes, 1.1 Sinaloan Milk Snakes, 1.1 Western Hognose, and 1.2 African House snakes.
Then there are the cats and the fish...
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Lora

There are a number of freeloading reptiles around here. 12 Emeralds, Northern and Basin and well a few transients. 9 Chondros, Mustard, Kafiau Island,Aru,Biak/Sorong. 1 BCI the living room dog/snake. 3 pastel redtail boas,2 Solomon Island boas, 1 ATB,2 Balls, A killer yearling Texas Rat, she's killer because she tries to kill me lol. And last but not least a couple of adult Carpets I picked up, thinking of trying a Carpondro project using my male Mustard and one of my male Kafiau Islands. I think that's all of them.
Randy
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I don't care if the glass is half full or half empty !
I just want the full glass I paid for !

You have a lot more than I guessed. I remember a while back that there was a thread about ETB's. Now I know who to contact if I have questions or need to have a chondro. BTW, what is a dog/snake ?

My wifes BCI thinks it's dog or at least she firmly believes she isn't like the other snakes. Likes to lay on the couch, drinks from a spray bottle, Loves to mess with the cats mind, begs to get out. Loves to squeeze balloons till they pop. One weird snake.

Posted a picture of my Mustard chondro here a while back. I love my Emeralds but them Chondros are moving on up. Here's one of Whybe from the other night eating his cage buddies. He has never shown an interest in eating anything live. The birds had been living with him for a couple of weeks. Here he is teaching them not to poop on him. Randy

>>You have a lot more than I guessed. I remember a while back that there was a thread about ETB's. Now I know who to contact if I have questions or need to have a chondro. BTW, what is a dog/snake ?
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I don't care if the glass is half full or half empty !
I just want the full glass I paid for !

Squeeze and pop balloons? That's cool too, how you figured that out is a bit odd though. Just kidding. Love the pic.

Thanks.

I'm not familiar with most of yours. During one of my ventures from the clinic where I work, I got a bit of experience from working at a pet shop whose owner is really into designer type hognose. I wish I had been a bit more educated on them at that time. I didn't know albino's where not so common....I wish I would've been more interested in them and learned from him.

I've looked at the albino's but the red hypo morph is more interesting to me visually. Hognose are a pretty peculiar snake, odd in behaviour as well as appearance. With rat snakes (and most colubrids) they try to escape or mildly bluff vs. a hognose that will hiss loudly, strike repeatedly with a closed mouth, hood, and then play dead. They are interesting snakes, with a display that's pretty different from a typical colubrid constrictor. Boids, if you're lucky, hiss, ess up and then strike. Hognoses are just a weird little colubrid. Entertaining and intriguing at the same time. I love my rat Asian rat snakes, shy and retiring, but beautiful. I kept North American rats for years, but the Asians like the Mandarins and Coxi are the ones I saw in books and said "I've got to get one of those".
BRBs were another one of those- saw it in a book and had to have one snakes.

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Lora

Well, the rainbows have always been my favorites, I first saw them about 17 years ago and just had to have some, Have had sevaral over the years and now have 2.7 adults and 4.6 '04 neonates for new breeders. I have a redtail boa, Elvira, since '89, picked her up as a hatchling. And two balls. Have had over the years two burmese, one albino/one normal, cornsnake, gopher snakes, Prehensile tail skinks, Bearded dragons and a blue tongue skink.

Starting up a morph boa breeding project, Have a trio coming from three different sources, a '04 male albino het for snow, a '04 female double het for sunglow and a '05 female anery het for snow. The sweet thing about the genetics is both pairings will produce known genetics. The albino x double het sunglow will produce 25% each sunglow, albino, double het for sunglow and normal het for albino. The albino x anery will produce 25% each snow, albino het for snow, anery het for snow and double het for snow. Will be a couple of years before I produce anything and several of the first babies are mine!!

Sounds a little like me with the BRB's. I saw a couple as a kid and never could get them out of my mind. That was about 20 years ago. Four years ago I got my FIRST pair, than another, and another, and another....you probably know the rest.

Good luck with your BCI's.

3.3 BRB
1.2 CRB
0.2 B.C. Crossbreed
1.1 Carpet Python
0.1 Rosy Boa
0.1.1 Amazon Tree Boa
1.1 Blood Python

Mattias, Sweden

4 kingsnakes
2 cornsnakes
1 jungle corn
1 milksnake
1 BRB

I've cut down on the number of snakes I keep quite a bit. All of my snakes have great dispositions, temperments, are handled on a regular basis. My 4.5 yr old daughter handles them all, except the BRB which she's says squeezes her arms too tight. Although, she did enjoy handling the BRB alot in the first year when it was smaller. Keeping snakes is an addiction and if I didn't try to exercise some self control, I'd have over 50 snakes easy because I once had nearly 20.
Happy Herping,
Uncloudy

I may have said it before, but in case I didn't....you have a really pretty BRB there. I'm hoping several of mine become that color as adults.

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Currently I have 4 BRB's, 2 Florida Kingsnakes (Brooks variety) and a Woma. I was REALLY close to getting a Surinam BCC but weathered the storm (just not the year to be adding to the menagerie, but it was close). In the past I've keep CRB, milksnake, Children's Python, and BCI.
Want:
Surinam BCC (male)
Eastern Indigo
Pituophis of some type

Paul,
...I used to keep Eastern Indigos when it was legal here in the south. They are really great snakes but extremely MESSY.
Jeff

>>Currently I have 4 BRB's, 2 Florida Kingsnakes (Brooks variety) and a Woma. I was REALLY close to getting a Surinam BCC but weathered the storm (just not the year to be adding to the menagerie, but it was close). In the past I've keep CRB, milksnake, Children's Python, and BCI.
>>Want:
>>Surinam BCC (male)
>>Eastern Indigo
>>Pituophis of some type

But they are SO awesome. This guy I knew years ago had a pair and I just could'nt get over those snakes. They really were so alert and aware. I'd deal with the crap for sure but would be more concerned about supplying a varied diet that I've read some say they really need (others say a diet of rats and mice is just fine).
If Seema (my fiancee) only knew what she was really getting into.

I think you need another Woma. Take it easy...

Don't know how I forgot that. I really love that Woma Python. He is just the coolest snake; hard to explain. My 83 yr. old mother, who has always been deathly afraid of snakes, absolutly adores him; even asks to hold him! If you knew my mother this would floor you.
But I was pretty wound up for one of Barry Miller's Surinam's. I just wish someone would buy the damn thing but it's still on his website teasing me.
Paul