if you have a black rat since it was a hatchling..... how handleable can you get them as adults? will they always be a little nippy?
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Just curious...
phiber_optikx
Jun 30, 2005 01:55 PM
Replies (6)
Snake_Master
Jun 30, 2005 03:29 PM
IF you raised one it should have no problem and be very docile unless it wasnt fed right or if you dont hold a black rat it can be very nippy all depends how you care for a black rat, but most all hatchlings are docile, but wildcaught adults are a little harder to tame.
Hotshot
Jun 30, 2005 05:51 PM
I have both W/C and C/B rat snakes. Depends on the personality, but 99% will calm down with handling. You will always have that one that will not calm down and be nippy. I do, a female that after over a year, she still is nippy and bites every now and then.
Brian
>>IF you raised one it should have no problem and be very docile unless it wasnt fed right or if you dont hold a black rat it can be very nippy all depends how you care for a black rat, but most all hatchlings are docile, but wildcaught adults are a little harder to tame.
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Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian
duffy
Jun 30, 2005 03:49 PM
Most will calm down very nicely. There are individual differences, of course, but if you handle yours regularly and calmly it will very likely be easy to handle as an adult. ALL my ratsnakes are (black, texas, greenish, corn, bairds).
Snake_Master
Jun 30, 2005 05:52 PM
Tempeture also though can make a snake very uncomfortable and to much holdling could stress, i also have many rat snakes, everglades,yellow,gray,black,corn,great plain rats, which i just got from a freind today.
phiber_optikx
Jun 30, 2005 11:09 PM
twice a week seem like enough handling to calm it down? or a little more needed?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"
Snake_Master
Jul 01, 2005 10:24 AM
You can hold it everyday, which that would be better but not for hours lol...
