Taiwan Beauty Snake

Thanks for the great response. I have only had very little experience with large snakes (anything larger than a 40 some inch ball). I have never had a snake other than a young corn try to really squeeze me, so I have no way of knowing what kind of squeeze they are really capable of. Seems like we always have things to learn.

Oh yeah, no worries at all!

Jack has it covered beautifully, but I just thought I'd add that I could never keep huge boids partially because of back problems, but I can tangle with even my tempermental male beauty no prob and he's somewhere around possibly over 8ft. Both of my adults are only around 3 pounds too at their last vet check up. My little elderly kitty weighs more! They're long but slender, very impressive gorgeous snakes. :love:

I concur with Medusa on the weight issue the largest asian rat snake I have ever actually seen and handled was a massive Male blue beauty that was over 11 feet (may be a record) his girth was about like that of a typical 16oz water bottle at his biggest. He was friendly as all get out to boot! His weight could not have been more then 6-8 pounds and that again was the biggest beauty I have ever seen or heard of from a reliable source for that matter.

Compair this to the average weight of a male red tail mature boa of 35-40 pounds and you get a clear picture of why a 8-10 foot beauty is a lot easier to manage then a boa or python of a similar length.

By the way Tai, my young male who was born in June and I bought at the Bob Clark show in August is in the blue again and about to shed for the FOURTH time since I bought him. Talk about growth, :carrot:

Ooh, thanks for the reminder to add reference to that 11 footer on my caresheet! I heard about that bad boy and even though it's uncommon for them to get that long, best to warn folks that it's at least possible. :gj: