does any body else keep snakes????

i had a speckled kingsnake for a while, im 97% certain my cable man stole it when they hooked up my tv and internet, because it vanished the same day.

id love to home a snake they seem like cool pets, maybe in the future

well i got a 3 foot columbian redtail... i just had a question... right befor they shed the eyes turn opaque, then clear up... well i had bought a rat to feed her but when i got home her eyes turned but, they have cleared up... i dont want to feed her until shes done shedding but i got this f-ing rat in a old tank that im getting tired of taking care of... but would it be ok to feed her now??? but i dont want to mess with her too much during shed ant thoughts or advice... it not a big deal but im just curious

Win wrote:

Your starting to scare me !!!

well she just shed a lil while ago... man she was ready to eat... snakes are fun low maintenance pets

In the near future hopefully getting reptile license and want to house some pythons but i have to have a seperate room for them as my wife wont talk to me otherwise.

license??? for what??? besides that pythons are mean... but theyre easy to breed and you can get alot of different patterns... i lke boas.. better tempers and they birth live young

woldog wrote:


Haha...I would love a snake but my wife says she'd kill me if I brought one into the house!

i love mine... ive had her for about 8 months and she a lil over a year old now... 3+ foot long, gentle, docile... ive let 5 or six year old kids hold her and never worried at all... i dont know anybody whos ever been bit by a columbian red tial

jcrunk69 wrote:

I have a bunch of snakes and have fed them on occasion towards the end of the shed, I dont know if you live feed or not, but if you do, then i'd recomend snuffing the rat first, if your snake is having trouble seeing, it can still smell its way to the dead rat, but if its live and bites your snake your in for a world of hassle, I had one python get bitten by a rat, the end result was I had to give it 5 or 6 antibiotic shots, which is a real pain in the butt if your python is 9ft long!
I have since taken to feeding all snakes either fresh kill or frozen.
Some snakes will only eat live food, for these I have found that if you stun the rat [or mouse] with a cattle prod, the snake will still eat it because they arent dead and still have a pulse so they figure they'r alive and still eat em'.

jcrunk69 wrote:

The reason he needs a licence is that here in Aust you have to have a reptile permit before youre alowed to keep any snakes, class 1 and 2 for pythons and then you need a different permit for venomous stuff like death adders etc....
I'd love a boa but the punishment if your caught with one in this country just aint worth it, although I know a guy with a Burmese python & Diamond rattler [both highly illegal here] he's just lucky he hasn't been caught yet!