Gabby Viper

I think it is safe to say everyone who has posted really just wants you to be safe. If you feel you are being safe, then really it is your decision. Good luck with hots, tell me how working with the gaboons are when you get one. I'm highly interested, but wayyy to scared :)

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Originally Posted by spitfireashlea

I think it is safe to say everyone who has posted really just wants you to be safe. If you feel you are being safe, then really it is your decision. Good luck with hots, tell me how working with the gaboons are when you get one. I'm highly interested, but wayyy to scared :)

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It's been a little fun so far working with the Gabby. They really don't move around to much, and aren't difficult at all to hook. He doesn't even really strike at the hook or anything. I know people are just wanting me to be safe, and I am. I know a fairly good amount about a lot of things, and certain species of hot's i've studied because of just being interested in them, or their behavior.

I love gabbys. As soon as I am able to keep hots again, it is def. on the top of my list. A friend of mine has a nice sized female. Lightening fast. Beautiful snake.

Did you get one? Got pics, if so?

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Originally Posted by PyroPython

I love gabbys. As soon as I am able to keep hots again, it is def. on the top of my list. A friend of mine has a nice sized female. Lightening fast. Beautiful snake.

Did you get one? Got pics, if so?

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Not yet, i'm going to work with his gabby & cottonmouths more before I get my hots. I'm going to end up getting an arboreal viper, or a gaboon. Those are moreless what i'm set on for a first hot. Then after some time, im going to get a Gold headed cape cobra, but that's over a year down the road, probably around 2 years. I want to sort other things out first.

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Originally Posted by Neal

Not yet, i'm going to work with his gabby & cottonmouths more before I get my hots. I'm going to end up getting an arboreal viper, or a gaboon. Those are moreless what i'm set on for a first hot. Then after some time, im going to get a Gold headed cape cobra, but that's over a year down the road, probably around 2 years. I want to sort other things out first.

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neal, i think you are headed in the right direction.

i read your first post and shuddered at the thought of a boomslang or sawscale for a first hot. confidence without overconfidence is your goal, and it's awesome that you have a mentor figure.

The arboreal vipers are awesome, just may require a double hook because they hang on to stuff pulling them out (if you have branches and stuff with them)...cottonmouths/copperheads are a great start, thats what I started with, as well as WDB rattlers....I held my first Cobra a few days ago, a 5 foot Nubian spitting cobra and went very well, had a midwest 30 inch hook (love it) and tailed it...He definitely wasn't too crazy but did love to ride the hook...great practice and best of luck getting started with everything, gabbys r awesome, but they'll amaze me with their quickness.