leutistic rat snake

JoleneVissers · 12-04-12, 05:20 AM

So pretty much its the type of snake you don't handle often just leave in the viv?
I may pass on this one then and get him one of the other 2 hes looking at. Hes looking at a Jungle Carpet Pythons, Woma python or the Rat snake.

I do want something we can handle tho,I'd like to be able to take them out for baths and cleaning their tanks with out getting bit every time.

Wildside · 12-04-12, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by JoleneVissers

So pretty much its the type of snake you don't handle often just leave in the viv?
I may pass on this one then and get him one of the other 2 hes looking at. Hes looking at a Jungle Carpet Pythons, Woma python or the Rat snake.

I do want something we can handle tho,I'd like to be able to take them out for baths and cleaning their tanks with out getting bit every time.

The lucy rats actually get pretty big as far as demonic colubrids go

JoleneVissers · 12-04-12, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Wildside

The lucy rats actually get pretty big as far as demonic colubrids go

I think I'll stay away from the demonic colubrids lol. With 2 small kids one of which has learned to open anything I wouldn't trust her enough to stay away and not get bit. I have both my boas vivs locked and she still manages to get them open from time to time.

Wildside · 12-04-12, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by JoleneVissers

I think I'll stay away from the demonic colubrids lol. With 2 small kids one of which has learned to open anything I wouldn't trust her enough to stay away and not get bit. I have both my boas vivs locked and she still manages to get them open from time to time.

That is the first thing my boys ever got spanked for.

Lankyrob · 12-04-12, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by JoleneVissers

I think I'll stay away from the demonic colubrids lol. With 2 small kids one of which has learned to open anything I wouldn't trust her enough to stay away and not get bit. I have both my boas vivs locked and she still manages to get them open from time to time.

You need better locks, there is no way a child should be able to open a viv without adult supervision/guidance. Our keys arre hung seven foot up a wall (even the wife struggles to get them

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JoleneVissers · 12-04-12, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Lankyrob

You need better locks, there is no way a child should be able to open a viv without adult supervision/guidance. Our keys arre hung seven foot up a wall (even the wife struggles to get them

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I'm looking at building my own enclosures so that they are more child proof. The one I have can be opened from the top which she has resorted to before. Shes a little artist when it comes to breaking into things. I usually hide the key so she can't find it. Shes in love with both snakes and loves to sit down and hold them (more like them laying on her lap) with us standing close by watching.

Calsod · 12-06-12, 01:05 AM

Get a lucy Black rat snake. Not a lucy Texas rat snake. The black rat snakes are MUCH friendlier. I've bred lucy Texas rats for many years and just got my first lucy black rat last year. They're like day and night...the black rat is as easy to handle as my corn snakes. And much easier to hold than my crazy egg eating snakes.

Beth