Other pets (pics and discussions)

[adamanteus]

You should soon be able to find a Pine Snake again, Lulu. You see them in the shops quite often. They really are great fun to keep, but they eat a lot! Expensive toys!

[enigma200316]

You should soon be able to find a Pine Snake again, Lulu. You see them in the shops quite often. They really are great fun to keep, but they eat a lot! Expensive toys!

she already knows about expensive toys, didn't you read about the Jackhammer........

[RZL36]

The Pine is great. I want to get him a little girl to play with, but he is still a little too young yet.

They eat like crazy, but I have a system worked out.

Whatever my kings don't eat (b/c they love to go off-feed this time of year, yet I still have to try to get them to eat every three days) I feed to the pine. He will eat mice and rats, and hiss when I pay a little too much attention to him.

They make great captives and are a pleasure to work with. The coolest thing about them is how they feel. They are really rough scaled. More so than a garter.

But the hiss is incredible. It is really loud and scares everyone who has ever seen her (the non-herp geeks that is). Though he will hiss, he never bites and has only rattled the tail once.

My garters are impossible to handle though. I have two of them, and every time I go to pick one up, the other darts out of the cage. I love those little guys.

Rich

[Snaky]

I've had my kingsnakes go on a hunger strike for months... unless they are young ones you really don't need to try every 3 days

If mine don't eat, it's up to the next week and sometimes I even skip a week if they are not that active. I give big mice or Mastomys natalensis though.

The pine snake sounds fun... sissing like natrix maura probably. It's also mainly acting though with natrix maura.

[adamanteus]

... hissing like natrix maura probably. It's also mainly acting though with natrix maura.

Natrix n. helvetica also hisses a lot, but again all bluff! The loudest hissers I've known are the Cobras...not bluff!

[Snaky]

Natrix n. helvetica also hisses a lot, but again all bluff! The loudest hissers I've known are the Cobras...not bluff!

Real life experience?

[adamanteus]

Real life experience?

Yes, I have kept a few in the past.....Naja nivea and Naja sputatrix mainly. I have no venomous snakes anymore...... children in the house!!!

[RZL36]

Not worrying about the kings. Have kept those guys for years and got those down pretty well. The pine snake just reaps the rewards when they are picky. I should have clarified that I go on the every 3 days schedule after they miss their weekly feeding. That's all.

I love elapids. Pseudonaja Textilis and naja pallida are favs.

Live in Jersey and have no captive experience with hots. So i just read about them. It's okay. Almost glad I don't live in a place where they are easily obtained.

Though being from Jersey, I would take a bullet for a crotalus horridus.
Well not really.

[adamanteus]

I would take a bullet for a crotalus horridus.
Well not really.

I never kept C. horridus, but I've had C. adamanteus, C. atrox, C. unicolour, C. vegrandis and a couple of others....love the rattlers!

[adamanteus]

....love the rattlers!

My favourite venonous snakes are those belonging to the Agkistrodon Complex, not only the North American genus, but also the Asian genera Deinagkistrodon and Calloselasma.