Awesome and enviable collection. I honestly can’t even pick a favorite. The rattlers are super neat. Though I’m too nervous to keep venomous (aside from rear fanged/non medically significant varieties)
Love the carpets and the garters and the king snakes. Darn it I love them all! Only problem with reptiles is you can’t have them all!
Copperheads can be a good venomous starters, rattles are generally easier though, at least while handling on the hook that is, I’ve found by handling my friends. She owns both a copperhead and a rattle (handled with hook). Both are fairly common and you can find them at a venomous snake/reptile expo, forgot what they are called.
MM doesn’t permit the sale of hots at the moment. Also, in reality no venomous snake make a “good” beginner.
This topic is about @ballornothing’s collection. Don, I am sorry if I have led the conversation away from its original purpose. And if anyone has further questions about venomous anything please ask them here on Venomous Tips.
No worries, I intended for us to be able to discuss them as well.
When it comes to venomous, they’re unfortunately very popular these days probably because of all the cobra waving on IG lol. I don’t mind the questions at all but I agree it’s best we answer them insomuch as possible in one thread so everyone can find the information later.
thank you! It’s taken quite a few years to get it to this point
I don’t quite understand the first question. Answer to the second would be the first venomous species I got was a northern rattle snake. I got a permit for it but… And they are a little hard to find, but not too bad.
This one has a super interesting personality, if I put him down and I’m nearby (inside or outside in the circle) he will typically at some point seek me out and if I’m sitting down will crawl all the way up onto my shoulders. My belief is that they come to see us as an item of security and so it’s probably a bit of a security blanket, but it’s neat to see.
They’re are a few more stragglers but we’re approaching the end of the ‘Not’ ball pythons. Do we sully this thread and I start posting ball pythons here or just continue with glamour shots of these same animals
We picked up a few things while vending the Nor Cal Reptile Expo this weekend. Including our first Northern Blue Tongue Skink! We have some very good friends who share this hobby.
Best photo I could get, Jasmine is in love and wouldn’t put him down
This reduced pattern California Kingsnake came from the same friend we got Stewie from. We got a similarly smoking friends and family deal on this VERY well started female Cal King.
I made them too cool of vivs to be able to see them until they fully mature we were also recently gifted a juvenile Yucatan Rust Rump and a juvenile Brazilian Giant Blonde as well. Spider people probably have a different word for juvenile that I’m ignorant of. I’m sure someone will correct me if so
We’ve been crazy busy with the businesses but we haven’t stopped tweaking on the snake collection despite that.
The ball python market is really slow this year so I’ve been moving along a lot of my more ‘obsolete’ breeders to replace with holdbacks that have 1-2 years left to grow. As females lay, I’m getting them re-established and shipping them out. I haven’t been having as much fun with them lately either.
By cutting my proven females almost in half, I can give myself a year or two off from the machine of my ball python collection and by the time is back at full production it will be a totally different landscape I’m working with which is exciting in itself. Even at half the size I can still expect 6-10 clutches a year so it’s not exactly like I’ll be detoxing from my ball python habit
With the decision made and the distraction lessening, I can focus on rounding out all of my other breeding projects.
With these two, we’re essentially done acquiring BCIs. We only intend to breed 1 or 2 clutches a year of pet practical morphs for our table at shows. Currently we have 4.3 breeders boas and a stray Nicaraguan who’s just a pet.
‘Nic’ the Nicaraguan since I mentioned him and he’s never been posted here.
I have a young female house snake and still need a male but I was looking for another female. A friend is getting out of them so he was kind enough to insist that I take his proven female. On the condition that I take another proven female with it, because they lay a ridiculous number of eggs and he’s sick of it
I still need one more California Kingsnake female but this girl was available from a pet home recently so I snatched her up. Not often do you come across large healthy female snakes available for a fair price and she was a steal at 150.