Some Like It Hot!!!!

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Originally Posted by basuca

wow that Copperhead is cool, if it bite you what is the chance you will die, and what you deed to have to have one?

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Very very slim. They arent that toxic. In saying that I'm sure a bite will make someone very very sick lol

Man... They even look evil. I mean pythons to me always look kinda innocent and cunning, all hots ive ever seen have that slant to their eye that gives them a synister evil look. Mean buggers lol.
:O you let those things out of their tank? lol i guess your trained so its cool but still you have got some balls...accually you dont, you only have hots and inverts right lol. just a little ball python humor for yah. Anyhow keep the pics coming, I love the invert collections ive seen so far.

I also keep a few colubrids but no I dont have any Balls LMAO

Nice pics :)

Good lookin' rattler. I lived in the Phoenix area for 18 years and I've had many run-ins with those snakes. What do you feed him and how do you do it?

mm, i love those copperheads. are they very aggressive? for some reason i'm thinking they're related to cotton mouths... i've had some bad experiences with them in the woods of virginia.

New pics of the Rattler. I had to clean her cage out the other day so I took her outside and snapped new pics ;)
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Ahhhhhhhhh, the memories!!! Growing up in E. Oregon I learned early on about the rattle. When I was 6 we were out rockhounding w/my mom & grandmother for petrified rock and got the chance to be a little tooooo up close and personal w/a diamondback. Luckily he was more scared than we were and slithered off after the initial rattling.


That copperhead is just beautiful!!! But that's one thing I DON'T miss from caring for the prof's snakes in college. Watering, cleaning the hots' cages, and removing the pinkies when the sidewinder decided he didn't want to eat that day. They're beautiful snakes, but for safety reasons, I won't rescue or own a hot.

Thanks for sharing the pics on such pretty animals!


RuLyn

Thanks,
As you know Hots arent for everyone but I am fascinated with them for some reason LOL

BrianS,


that's cool! Even hots in captivity need homes. The scary part are the ppl who don't have a clue and get a hot (sort of like the noob who buys a cute baby burm! ) but it was brought even closer to home when my prof (who owned the snakes) got bit, and the concern until he determined it was a dry bite. The scariest part????? Even tho we were in the biology dept and he had 4 hots in the room, he didn't have any antivenon in the immed. area.

Ignorance ISN'T bliss, but being a trainee, I didn't have any innate fear of them. My very first (accidentally washed) skins was from an 8 rattle diamondback that my uncle found out on the farm in the brush.

I don't claim to have a lot of experience w/hots, and they're beautiful snakes, and even tho I'm worth more to my kid (as an insurance premium ;) ) dead than alive, I won't keep 'em.

Glad some else will............JUST BE DILIGENT AND VERRRRRRRY CAREFUL!

R.