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What snake to buy?

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Posted by: rikandsarah at Sun Sep 3 11:02:11 2006  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rikandsarah ]  
   

Hi there I am a newbie to all this. I have a beardie at the moment and the wife has kept corn snakes when younger. We are looking to getting a snake, my wife likes the ball (royal) pythons and I was looking at the grey banded king. We have been told conflicting things by different pet shops.
Some sites say the python would be a good starter snake and it is easy to keep, but 1 pet shop says they are finicky feeders and that we could run into trouble later on. The one we were looking at was 12 months old and had been power fed to fatten him up, but again the opposite pet shop to where we were going to buy from said that power feeding can create a hungry snake and when we open the viv he would always be looking for food. We also we have small children and he recommended the grey banded king snake.
Not too sure of this snake, I had never seen one before and had lovely colouration, my wife thought perhaps it could be smallish? but we don't know which to chose. We also got told that king snakes are choosy eaters when young and die because of this, please help as we really want to get a snake but are unsure of which for the best tar Rik and Sarah


   

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