New Western hognose.

Just picked up a new Western Hognose snake the other day. He's also het albino so I hope I can pick up some het albino girlfriends for him later this year. I ilke the nice rusty red color he's got. I used to have a pair of hognoses years ago, but unfortunatly the male died so I sold the female. I kind of missed them, they've got such interesting personalities, so I decided to get some more.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...tiles/hog1.jpg

He is quite a looker! Congrats on the new hoggie!

Beautiful snake, are those agressive or are they pretty docile?

Congrats:gj::gj:
very nice looking snake

Great looking snake Mark! I too had one a few years ago and traded him to a friend...and now I miss him. Those and Pale Milks are the main colubrids on my list of 'wants' :P

Very Nice Again! :gj::gj:

hooray for hoogies.

looks just like mine!

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Originally Posted by tideguyinva

Beautiful snake, are those agressive or are they pretty docile?

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Extremely docile, but they do put on a great bluff routine. If you go to my site, I have some vids of one of my girls bluff striking and hissing up a storm. It is a hoot and scary looking, but she never opens her mouth. That is part of their great personality.

Great! Now your into venomous?? :P

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Originally Posted by tideguyinva

Beautiful snake, are those agressive or are they pretty docile?

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Generally pretty docile but they can be world champion bluffers. hissing, and closed mouth strikes (they'll bump you with their nose) and sometimes flattening out their heads like a wannabe cobra. I didn't see much of that with mine though. The ones I used to have did have a killer feeding response though and I almost got tagged a couple of times while feeding. I could take the female out of her tub, set her on the floor and hold a mouse in a pair of tongs and get her to chase it all over the room. She'd slither really fast with her mouth gaping wide open and her head way up high trying to grab that mouse as I would hold it just out of her reach. She would keep it up for a long time and I could get her to run an obstacle course holding that mouse up like a carrot on a stick.

She was generally real good with handling too but when she'd had enough, she would go real limp and rubbery. The first few times this happened I got real worried thinking that she may have gotten overheated or something. But when I put her back in her cage she'd act all normal again. After a while I figured that she was doing the famous hognose 'playing dead' trick but only halfheartedly.

They're real interesting animals with different personalities then 'normal' snakes.

Mark

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Originally Posted by JASBALLS

Great! Now your into venomous?? :P

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haha. such scary snakes. lol.

would you consider them hots? or is that just front fanged venomous snakes?