What are your top ten favorite snakes

[marvelfreak]

1. Diamond python 2. Red blood 3. Bredli carpet 4. Jungle carpet 5. Brazilian rainbow boa 6. Borneo short tail 7. Yellow anaconda 8.Dumeril boa 9. Irian Jaya carpet 10. Ring python . I thought it be cool to see what everyone favorite snake are.

[Smilts]

Mind if I add some non snake reptiles?
1 Corns, 2 Blue Spotted Timor monitors, 3 Burmese pythons, 4 Red Tail Boas, 5 Amazon Tree Boas, 6 Bull Snakes. Hmm I like them all but I guess only these 6 meet the top of the list the rest are all about the same to me.

[infernalis]

Garter Snakes, Cyclophiops Major, Racers, Milks, RTB, milks, water snakes, Storeria, corns, rats.

[infernalis]

My bad, said milks twice.....(accident)

Big pythons, But I could not have one.....

[Will0W783]

Emerald tree boa, green tree python, carpet python, diamond python, mandarin ratsnakes, false water cobra, reticulated python, hypomelanistic red-tail boa, Madagascan tree boa, rainbow boa

[marvelfreak]

Mind if I add some non snake reptiles?
1 Corns, 2 Blue Spotted Timor monitors, 3 Burmese pythons, 4 Red Tail Boas, 5 Amazon Tree Boas, 6 Bull Snakes. Hmm I like them all but I guess only these 6 meet the top of the list the rest are all about the same to me.
That find! I just put top ten as a cap, or some people (like me) won't know when to stop. Also got any pics of a Blue Spotted Timor Monitor they sound sweet?

[marvelfreak]

Emerald tree boa, green tree python, carpet python, diamond python, mandarin ratsnakes, false water cobra, reticulated python, hypomelanistic red-tail boa, Madagascan tree boa, rainbow boa
Green tree python and super dwarf retic are my 11 & 12. Oh an then there's Rosy boa. It was hard picking my top ten.

[infernalis]

It was hard picking my top ten.


Me too.

Then if you broke each species down by sub species and color morph, my list would take 30 pages to get it all down.

[marvelfreak]

Me too.

Then if you broke each species down by sub species and color morph, my list would take 30 pages to get it all down.
It take me all day then.:yes:

[Rham_Es-Hestos]

I like;

Green Anaconda
Burmese
Reticulated
Red Tail Boa
Yellow Anaconda
Coastal Carpet
Ball
Amazon Tree
Jungle Carpet

[percey39]

burmese, af rock, green conda, retic, king cobra, naja naja, diamond rattler, black mamba, green mamba, gaboon viper.
All these are ones which arnt legal here sigh, so will just end up getting most of the native species here

[SlimeyLimey805]

my list would go something like this....

Royal/Ball Python
Dumeril's Boa
Cali KingSnake
African Rock Python
Burmese Python
Honduran Milk Snake
Black Mamba
Gopher Snake
Boa Constrictor
Kenyan Sand Boa

or something kinda like that... :p

[Good 'N Plenty]

1) Yellow Anaconda
2) Green Anaconda
3) Burmese Python
4) Sunbeam Snake
5) Ball Python
6) Gaboon Viper
7) Beni Anaconda
8) Blood Python
9) Af Rocks
10) Garter Snake

[siz]

It's really hard to pick only 10. These are just off the top of my head:

1) Green Tree Python
2) White Lipped Tree Python
3) Roswell Boa
4) Black Mamba
5) Veitnamese Blue Beauty/Taiwanese Beauty
6) Garters
7) Emerald Tree Boas
8) Low White Pied Ball Pythons
9) Olive Python
10) Rough Green Tree Snakes

Those are what come to mind at the moment :) My list of favourties is constantly changing hahaha. But the top 3 are pretty solid :P

[Hillsberry]

Well I have not really had alot of snakes. But here are the ones I think are so cool

All Carpets
Kingsnakes
Green Tree Pythons
Purple Albino Yellow head Retic
Blood Python
Ball Python
Emerald Tree Boas
Womas
Burms
AF Rock Pytons

[Michael Roth]

I'm fortunate to own some of my favourites, but a few are still to come.

Green tree pythons
Emerald tree boas
Amazon tree boas
Most Rainbow boas
Indigos
Vietnamese Blue beauties
North American Rats
South American Rats
Irian Jaya Carpet Pythons
Corns

Honorable Mention:

Ball Pythons

[Feebo]

I`m also lucky enough to own most of my list :) lol apart from a few my wife isn`t likely to let me have any time soon...

Gaboon Viper
Western Diamond Back Rattle Snake
Spectacle Cobra
"Common" Boa
Brazilian Rainbow Boa
Blood Python
Western Hognose
Malagasy Giant Hognose
Jungle Jaguar Carpet Python
Mangrove Snake

I love the Gaboon Viper, it`s just so incredibly beautiful in every way ! But even if I could persuade my wife to have one in the house, I don`t think I`ll ever be prepared to take the risk. I take enough risk with my Westerns and my Malagasy Hog, I have no idea what would happen if one of those guys landed a bite, I have to take a fair amount of meds every day and I don`t imagine they`d mix very well with Hognose venom. I can look though ! My local herp shop has real bruisers ! :)

[Will0W783]

More than likely, you'd be fine if you were bitten by a hognose. They are generally considered not to be dangerous to humans. There are those rare cases where a person happens to be allergic to the venom, but the majority of people have just a bit of swelling for a few days to a week. Also remember that a hognose would have to chew on you a bit to get any venom into you. A quick defensive strike would not envenomate you, as their fangs are too far back and the delivery mechanisms too poor for them to quickly envenomate. I was nipped by my FWC when he struck at a mouse I was tossing into his cage and missed. I was not envenomated, as he just got me for a split second and let go, but it did bleed like a sucker.

[Feebo]

Yeah I`ve read loads about those guys and thier venom. I only say that because I`m on morphine for a spinal injury, quite a lot of morphine, that may well mean complications if I ever get a decent bite, possibly making me one of the rare serious cases.Not that I ever intend to find out. The Malagasy Hog venom is worse than the Westerns, and they have a really decent gape aswell so I suppose that`s a little more dodgy than the Westerns for that reason. Although they aren`t as keen to bite as a Mangrove or something. How easy can it be to remove a chewing snake from your hand anyway?! lol I`ve spend twenty five minutes with a python attached to my hand before now, short of spraying it in the face there`s not much you can do really if you don`t want teeth left in you and an injured snake..... (I can`t use alcohol) Mind you, I`m sure i`d be just a little bit more motivated if I had a Western or malagasy Hog attached to my hand ! lol :)

[Will0W783]

Maybe- not sure how hognose venom and opiate narcotics would mix. I've never had a snake try chewing on me- they always let go rather quickly. Of course, I tend to jump, which startles them as much as the bite startles me, so they let go...lol.

[Feebo]

Me neither, worth extra caution that I think. Yeeeeah they do seem as startled as us sometimes don`t they ! lol Every time I`ve been bitten it`s either been feeding related or a new and scared snake. As long as I always exercise a little extra caution with those two species, I`m as safe as I can be (and still own rear fang venomous snakes) If I do ever get bitten I`m betting it`ll be the Malagasy Hog lol :D In all likelyhood, the worst that will happen is a nasty reaction and a trip to the ozzy, or I may just react like everyone else but as I say, I don`t intent to find out if I can help it. :)

[Will0W783]

Yeah, I hope to never be tagged again by the FWC- he is fast as heck and I really dont want to find out if I'm allergic.

[Feebo]

No.... I may well get a FWC one day, not just yet though I don`t think. I`ll never go any bigger than Boas and Carpets so one day I`ll probably want the extra challenge of a FWC :) Motorbike leathers and a riot shield then I think lol :D

[emseeKAY]

hehehe just join the S.A.S. then eh? hahaha

[Will0W783]

They aren't bad. I can freehandle Rogue for the most part. I use a hook to get him out and then once he's out he's fine. He's never tried to bite in defense. The only bite was an accident as I didn't throw the mouse in fast enough. I hate using tongs on the tails of live mice because I know it hurts them, but from now on, tongs it is for the one that gets thrown to Rogue. He absolutely refuses f/t, but I'm still trying.

[=Carinata=]

I like this thread good idea mate. My favoirites are all australian cause im australian. dont get me started with monitor lizards there are too many. I bet my list is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

1 rough scale python morelia carinata
2 green tree python
3 scrub python
4 jungle python
5 hypomelenistic centralian carpet python morelia bredli
6 albino olive python
7 water python
8 coastal carpet python. the biggest of the morelia carpets.
9 albino darwin carpet python morelai varigata
10 anthaxic coastal carpet python Black and white coastal carpet python.
11. morelia morphs.

[shaunyboy]

diamond python.boelen's python.black-headed python.green tree python.jungle python.woma's.bredl python.white lipped python (southern black phase).scrub python.eye lash viper.

i would love to have the first 9 snakes in my collection.i would be too scared to keep an eye lash viper.theres not a lot of anti venom kept here in the uk.
cheers shaun

[marvelfreak]

Got a 75% diamond x25% jungle the other day. It the close i came to a real diamond that i can afford. So now i have my number 1.8745

[marvelfreak]

There's a lot of new people here so lets hear what your favorites are.:)

[Nafun]

1. Diamond Carpet Python (Wish I could afford one!)
2. Garter Snakes
3. Jungle Carpet Python
4. Ball Python
5. Pueblan Milk Snake
6. California King Snake
7. Burmese Python (Wife says no no to snakes over 8 feet =/ )
8. BCC (again, wife says no =/ )
9. Lake Erie Watersnake (I know they're mildly poisonous, and vicious, but damnit, I think they're beautiful, and I only live a couple of hours from lake erie.)
10. Corn Snake

[Lankyrob]

1. Tiger retic (wife says no)
2. Burmese (wife says no)
3. BRB
4. Ball python
5. Corn
6. Carpet python
7. Western hognose
8. Any cobra (not to own tho)
9. Pueblan Milk snake
10 Pretty much any snake!!!

[BlindOne]

1. Trimeresurus trigonocephalus (Ceylonese Palm viper)
2. Bothriechis schlegelii (Eyelash viper)
3. Boiga dendrophila (Mangrove)
4. Crotalus lepidus klauberi (Banded Rock rattler)
5. Spilotes pullatus (Tiger rat)
6. Orthriophis taeniurus (Blue Beauty)
7. Crotalus horridus atricaudatus (Canebreak rattler)
8. Atheris squamigera (Hairy Bush viper)
9. Elaphe mandarina (Mandarin rat)
10.BRB's

I've kept all of these other than the Canebreak, Banded Rock and Blue Beauty

[percey39]

I like this thread good idea mate. My favoirites are all australian cause im australian. dont get me started with monitor lizards there are too many. I bet my list is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

1 rough scale python morelia carinata
2 green tree python
3 scrub python
4 jungle python
5 hypomelenistic centralian carpet python morelia bredli
6 albino olive python
7 water python
8 coastal carpet python. the biggest of the morelia carpets.
9 albino darwin carpet python morelai varigata
10 anthaxic coastal carpet python Black and white coastal carpet python.
11. morelia morphs.

Just read this one lol Scrubs are a morelia and they are the largest morelia species. In my books its morelia kinghorni or morelia amethystine. Just thought i would correct this.

[Nafun]

1.
8. Atheris squamigera (Hairy Bush viper)



Must... contain... juvenile... sense... of... humor!

[BlindOne]

Must... contain... juvenile... sense... of... humor!

Muahahaah....keeled scales

http://www.kostich.com/bush_viper_062009.jpg

[marvelfreak]

Must... contain... juvenile... sense... of... humor!
Didn't catch it at first. LMAO Blind One sweet snake.

[BlindOne]

Didn't catch it at first. LMAO Blind One sweet snake.

Not my snake, best picture I could find. Mine were green/yellow, very cool snakes

[percey39]

They are one awesome looking snake, i would image that husbandry would have to be spot on for these guys to thrive and shed well.

[emseeKAY]

somehow getting a stuck shed off of one of these doesnt appeal to me, although the bright colors of them do ;)

[BlindOne]

somehow getting a stuck shed off of one of these doesnt appeal to me, although the bright colors of them do ;)

Same as anything else, hook em into a damp pillowcase and let em crawl around for a couple of hours. Clear plastic tubing is your friend if you have to do maintenance on them. Funny how snakes can't resist crawling into a tight space :)

[Jenn_06]

here are my favs

1. Green Tree Python(have)
2. White phase retic (have)
3. Tiger & super retic (have)
4. Snow retic(want sooooooo bad)
5. Moonglow boa
6. White liped python
7. Eyelash viper
8. Emerald tree boa
9. Olive Python
10. Womas

[presspirate]

In no particular order
Granite Burm
Purple Retic
Argentine Boa
Dumerils Boa
Diamond Carpet
Colombian Rainbow Boa
Rock Python
BCC
Nicaraguan Boa
Western Hog Nose

[Freebody]

cobras!all the other venomous species,retics,morelia,burms,boas,balls,garters,co rns,rat snakes, to go into morphs like everyone said would take a long time lol :P

[presspirate]

I agree, I started looking into the different Boa localities, each one is more beautiful than the last, then you get into the different morphs of each locality my god........:Wow:

[marvelfreak]

1. Diamond python 2. Red blood 3. Bredli carpet 4. Jungle carpet 5. Brazilian rainbow boa 6. Borneo short tail 7. Yellow anaconda 8.Dumeril boa 9. Irian Jaya carpet 10. Ring python . I thought it be cool to see what everyone favorite snake are.

Looking at this i realize i slowly getting them all. A couple have change i want a Jaguar Carpet instead of a Irain Jaya Carpet. Instead of a Red Blood i want a Albino Blood. I also like a Woma Python.

[Freebody]

womas look so sweet when move around. they look great in person and when they move is aww inspiring. i have most of the snake i have always wanted as well, but the list of wants comes way faster than the list of already aquired lol im going to have to look up a redblood im not sure i seen one, or do you mean red blood corn snake?

[marvelfreak]

No i mean Red Blood python like this bad girl.The reason they're called bloods is because of their blood red color. There's a lot of bloods but this is a true Red Blood.
10314

I wouldn't have anything but boas and pythons. Well maybe a hognose.

[red ink]

1 JCP (Jullatens)
2 Woma (Tanami)
3 Blackhead python (Dajarra)
4 Stimpsons pythons (Weatbelt/Gammon Ranges)
5 Spotted pythons (Cape york)
6 GTP
7 Pygmy python
8 Death adder (Dajarra)
9 Ball pythons
10 Corn snakes

[Grimleo]

Cool thread :)

1. Rubber Boa
2. JCP
3. Eastern Indigo
4. Golden Tree Snake
5. Kenyan Sand Boa
6. Rosy Boa
7. Mexican Black
8. FWC
9. Hogg Island
10. Emerald Tree Boa

[Freebody]

No i mean Red Blood python like this bad girl.The reason they're called bloods is because of their blood red color. There's a lot of bloods but this is a true Red Blood.
10314

I wouldn't have anything but boas and pythons. Well maybe a hognose.
ah ok that one flew right over my head lol as soon as i seen the pic before i even read what you said i was think..OH blood red LOL ya i love their pattern, i have never been too fond of the short fat body style but i would get one for that beautifull pattern and color they have. same as some most ball pythons.

[Meg]

fun thread but a difficult one. My fascination with snakes is endless and I tend to "jump around" as Im learning about awesome new snakes ALL the time. So TOP TEN doesnt really apply here as which ones I like more is very hard for me to decide.

that being said...Im way into all of these

1. Chondros (green tree python)
2. Carpet pythons (all)
3. Boelen's python
4. Paradise Flying Tree Snake
5. Amazon Tree boas
6. Western Hognose
7. Ringneck snake
8. Gaboon Viper
9. Green Anaconda
10. Eyelash Viper

and basically every other snake

[marvelfreak]

Looking at this i realize i slowly getting them all. A couple have change i want a Jaguar Carpet instead of a Irain Jaya Carpet. Instead of a Red Blood i want a Albino Blood. I also like a Woma Python.
Got my fingers cross might be finally get a Jaguar next month. That'll be one more off my top ten list. :)

[2006gt]

i love colubrids the best
milks kings gophers pines bulls racers garters there all my favorite

[presspirate]

Got my fingers cross might be finally get a Jaguar next month. That'll be one more off my top ten list. :)

Best of luck to you there Chuck You will have a whole lot of us drooling with envy. :freakedout:

[silvsupratt]

green anaconda
yellow anaconda
rainbow boa
spitting cobra
king cobra
corns
jungle carpet python
green tree python
mojave sidewinder
reticulated python

[belovedboas]

This ones tough........Redtail boas, Hogg island boas, Emerald tree boas, burmese pythons, Carpet pythons, Gaboon vipers, Albino monocle cobra, kingsnakes, milks.... and just a fewwwwwwwwww more:):) lol