Thank you and Congratulations on a successful whole shed! Your humidity is perfect! Always gratifying when you find a whole in one piece shed!!! 
Edit to add: Much love to Miss Chester Cheeto! 
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You all are making me want one of these wonderful little snakes 
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C’mon Riley! Your community mom is urging you to get one! They don’t take up a whole lot of space in your home but they do take up a whole lot space of your heart! 
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lol 
, maybe. I do have to see what I am going to put in the 20 gallon long that leaky is moving out of.
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Perfect and just in time! Says your community momma!!! 
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So…how big do they get? I will think it over .
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An adult should fit comfortably in a 20 gallon long. The are slender as well. However others may disagree…
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I was thinking of getting a Pygmy python or a very similar sized snake for it. I will definitely explore other options lol .
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From what I have read, females can get up to 4 feet while males stay probably in the ballpark of 2.5. You might be able to house a male comfortably in a 20 gallon long? I’m not 100% on that; I’m planning on upgrading my female to a 4x2x1 when she’s full grown, because I like to at least try to have enclosures they can fully stretch out in, but their sexual dimorphism is such that the males stay pretty bitty. At the very least a 20 long would be a great grow-out tank and you can make a final judgement when you see how big your guy gets!
Join us! You know you want to! 
I have been fully charmed and I bet you would be too. What do you think, boaedon capensis or lamprophis fuliginosus? Or one of the others?
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Hmmmn now I am going to have to check out the Pygmy python…… 
And yes I think male house snakes are smaller as adults than females. My Apricot boy is still very small so right now envisioning him in a 20 gallon anything is difficult! .
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Wow! She is really growing! She looks twice the size of Apricot! But then again she is a female! 
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Ok you guys! Stop making me feel like I need one! I’m getting drawn in here.
I’m curious about their general behavior and handleability.
I’ve been pretty successful at curbing the impulse buying lately but I’m starting to crack. I stalk this thread even though I know I shouldn’t! Ugh I need help
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They’re good little guys and I can’t blame you for being tempted!
I’ll caveat this by saying that 1. I’m a relatively new keeper (<1 year) and 2. I’ve had my girl for a month and a half so she’s likely still settling in to some degree, and she’s definitely still a baby. But so far, I’ve found her very handleable.
She’s a bit darty when you go to pick her up (understandable, she is very small and I am very large) but once I’ve got her, she seems curious and interested. Maybe still a little stressed, but I think with time and age and consistent gentleness that’ll fade. She’s definitely less afraid than my BP was at a comparable age. She’ll slither over my hands and between/around my fingers, and if I give her a chance, she has occasionally settled for a little while in my sleeve or lap. She is also more comfortable when I have most of the lights off in a room (hence the mediocre quality of a lot of my pictures of her, ha).
She has never once struck at me or even postured about it, and I have never heard her hiss. I don’t see her exploring her enclosure much, but she is also very small in a relatively large bin and I give her a lot of cover, so she might be crypto-basking all day and I’d never know, lol.
From what I’ve understood reading up on these guys, they tend to take to handling very well in the long run. Considering they seem to be found around human settlements as much as in the wild in their natural range, I wonder if there’s a small degree of natural domestication going on there – they’ve evolved to be a little more comfortable around humans on average than snake species whose ranges avoid urban areas, perhaps? That’s fully exrapolation on my part, though.
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Do you mean cryptic? Crypto is a very deadly and contagious parasite
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D’oh! yeah I definitely do mean cryptic basking, not crypto the disease. Thanks for catching that.
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I’ve been trying to figure out a couple of words to sum up the little house snake. Charming. Endearing.
Their care is pretty straightforward, they don’t take up a ton of space and compared to a lot of other snakes, the cost of even a fancy one won’t break your bank account.
But my favorite reason for adding a house snake to your collection is that they are just so darn cute! Ya gotta get one Gina! 
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Either a black or a cape but still not decided on which.
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Black House snakes are a LOT smaller, the Capes are the average largest species.
If you have a twenty long, a smallish male Black House Snake might do okay in there although mine is being upgraded to a full Bioactive 36x16x16 ish size to give him extra room. He currently lives in a 10-12 gal (about 18x12) on my desk and is very happy in there with enough tubes and cover and places to explore and hide.
As bitty babies they are very shy, being the size of a worm, and Sangfroid liked LOTs of cover. He’s bolder now. And an ANGEL for handling. Once he realizes it’s me picking him up, he doesn’t even try to flee just explores my hands. Super sweet. Never defensive.
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This is Sangfroid’s (Black house snake, Male, 40 g maybe 18 inches) current enclosure, (19x10x10 inches)
and he’s just about to move out of it in a few more months and into his bioactive. He’s getting a bit big for this now that he’s eating, but they start well in a lil ten gallon like this.
(Just watch out- they’re crazy skilled escape artists!!)
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