My rattlers

[redtails]

Here's a couple sidewinders I used to keep.




I also had an atrox that was a long term captive, if not cb. It was about 3.5' long and had 12 rattles.


I also had a baby blacktail. The cutest and calmest rattlesnake ever!

[DaemoNox]

Nice snakes, but seems like a lot of bad luck...

[redtails]

Sure was. I'm sticking to the rock pythons, burms, and retics for now as I'm a lot better with them.

[dannyc]

Dude you need to get another hobby. You've lost more than I have and I've never lost one, Yet.

[taz19772005]

nice snakes have you gave up on the ratters?

[redtails]

Originally Posted by dannyc

Dude you need to get another hobby. You've lost more than I have and I've never lost one, Yet.

Dude, you need to be nice before karma comes round and kicks your a$$. Good for you that you haven't lost anything precious to ya. Stuff happens, sidewinders are very picky feeders as babies and I learned that the hard way. Just because you burn dinner a couple times doesn't mean you stop eating man, same with this. I've had snakes over half of my life and I'm not gonna stop now cuz a couple died.

To the other, I dunno if I've given up completely yet, but for now yes. I do live in the desert so it's not that hard to get another if I want one.

[gonesnakee]

Not too sure what you are talking about in reguards to maggots. Its not too hard to guarrantee fresh prey thats not full of maggots, the smell of it alone would be a dead giveaway. Can't see how maggots if ingested could even live let alone eat the specimen? Like I said not too sure what you exactly mean? Sound like avoidable BS to me. Sounds like you have some serious husbandry issues etc. Any rocks in an enclosure should always be setting securely on the bottom of the tank & then substrate placed in around them. Sounds like the rock was setting on the substrate not on the bottom as it should have been. Also a "spikey bush" was responsible for the death of another snake? NO you allowing it to be there were responsible for its death, same goes for the rock incident. Freehandling HOTS is a bad idea also, I guess you almost had to kill your friend to find that out, hopefully it was a lesson learned? Looks & sounds to me that you are one of those that is only in to the HOTS & large Boids because of personal status, but hey thats just my opinion. I am definitely interested in hearing more about these maggot deaths as I for one can't even remotely fanthom what you are talking about? You do know that maggots will only eat DEAD FLESH right? So if the specimens were ate by maggots they were already dead & rotting before that would ever happen. You need to have a serious look at how & why you are keeping these animals & possibly reconsider a few things before you yourself become a statistic. Just my 2 cents, maggots killing snakes ROFLMAO! Mark

[taz19772005]

I have never keep hots and i know not to do that

[drec91]

u guys need to stop being so defensive and state your idea in a civil way instead of expsressing your anger through your writing. peace

[gonesnakee]

You drec91 must understand that you don't have a clue what was edited out of the orginal posts. You missed most all of this old threads orginal content. When folks are total idiots & go around taking HUGE risks we don't post to blow sunshine up their butts LOL Cheers Mark

[Boots]

Originally Posted by gonesnakee

you don't have a clue what was edited out of the orginal posts.

I have to agree with you as to the editing of posts after they have been posted. This is why it is best if members do not edit their posts after someone has replied.

Jason