whats your favorite snake species

[eatinmachine]

my favorite has to be a childrens python :drool: and I just want to say of my 6 snakes all different species the childrens is the best eater :clap: , best to handle , pretty active(can't top the nippy gopher snake ;P with activity), stays at a good size and overall an easy snake to keep :clap: . What is your vote for?

 

[Zoo Keeper]

Western Hognose, great little snakes.

 

[OldHag]

Hognoses
TriColored Hognoses
Kenyan Sandboas.
Rubber boas.

That is my favorite snake..s

 

[Joe]

Drymarchon corais couperi and Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides

 

[Orange_Demon]

garter snake since they are the only ones ive had. small easy to look after, handle, feed em worms from my garden.

 

[YouLosePayUp]

for color ituri rhino viper (will never have one) short of that I want to get emereld tree boa or a green tree python.


I can't ever consider housing venomous snakes at this time as I have 4 kids in the house and that would just be asking for major problems.

 

[galeogirl]

I loved my Burmese python, she was big and mellow, she used to hang out in my bathtub.

 

[chris73]

Carpet Python (any non-man made morph). Beautiful, Impressive size - but managable, very adaptable and seemingly indestructable, enough attitude to keep them interesting, and still legal in most states.

Tough to feed though due to their aversion to rats. Too small for bunnies and too big for mice. It's always something around my house!

 

[Madeline]

Kenyan Sand Boas

 

[David Richards]

Chondro's, Don't get to big and have great color varietys young and old. dave

 

[Malkavian]

Tough to feed though due to their aversion to rats. Too small for bunnies and too big for mice. It's always something around my house!

Seconded on the Carpet pythons. Mine dont have an aversion to rats though..pretty much anything warm they'll investigate as a foodsource.



Of the snakes in the US..hognoses are cute but I've always dreamed of having a pair of Eastern Indigo snakes they are SO impressive

 

[Schlyne]

ball pythons. Generally calm and sweet. And the genetics are incredibly varied, even if it's a crazy market.

 

[skinheaddave]

Seconded on the Carpet pythons. Mine dont have an aversion to rats though..pretty much anything warm they'll investigate as a foodsource.

While they aren't my favourite species, we do have a Jungle Carpet who quite likes his rats -- he has an insane feeding response and is quite fun to watch, as he will come well out the open door and nab the rat of forceps, constrict it and start eating each and every time. Never fails.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Crotalus]

Crotalus ssp.

/Lelle

 

[chris73]

DAMN! I wish mine would eat rats! I'm at 11 mice per feeding for my 8' JCP male. It's really expensive and time consuming as he requries wiggiling of the frozen feeders.

 

[tarantulakeeper]

I really like my sonoran boas for handling and personality, and my emerald tree boas for show. The caulkers are a little hissy, but they're young.

John
1.1 corn snakes
1.1 Caulker Cay boas
1.1 sonoran boas
1.1 Emerald tree boas
1.0 ball python

 

[skinheaddave]

DAMN! I wish mine would eat rats! I'm at 11 mice per feeding for my 8' JCP male. It's really expensive and time consuming as he requries wiggiling of the frozen feeders.

Have you tried really heating the item? I find that a minute under a hot spot-lamp does wonders with pitted snakes that won't eat.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[pitbulllady]

My Favorite Snake Species

I absolutely LOVE the entire Masticophis complex, especially Masticophis flagellum , the Coachwhips. Folks at the reptile shows in these parts are beginning to call me "The Coachwhip Lady", LOL! They are quite intelligent for snakes, and very observant, and I have not found their temperaments to be any worse than most Ratsnakes, including wild-caught Corns. To me, there is no snake any more beautiful than a bright red-phase Western Coachwhip, something I dream of having one day. I currently have six adult Eastern Coachwhips, two tan-phase adult Westerns, a peach-colored California "red"(which is not the same as a red-phase Western, being a different subspecies)and a lovely Sonoran Whipsnake. Two of the Easterns are defensive in their cage(Coachwhips seem to be rather territorial), but I can free-handle all of them. The California red, a couple of the other Easterns, and the Sonoran are all "puppy-dog" tame.

pitbulllady

 

[Randolph XX()]

Eryx colubrinus Kenyan Sand Boa, a fat earthworm!

 

[Sheri]

Crotalus ssp.

/Lelle

Damn, what a shock babe!
I thought it might have been corns or something.

I think my favorite though is Naja melanoleuca... to see those in the wild would be incredible. First though, I will see a Lachesis muta muta. Even if it takes 100 trips through the jungle, I am determined now.

Though from the ones I keep now, Pituophis catenifer sayi is by far my favorite.

I have a pair of Crotalus lepidus lepidus, but they are not being housed here. I hope to go out and work with them this weekend, or next for the first time. Only a couple of months old now, I suspect they will still be cute as hell.