Your favorite snake species

Ok I'm bored, so I'm starting a thread that EVERYONE can participate in.

What is your favorite snake species? If it is a ball python, list your second favorite!

As for me, it is between the sumatran red blood and the boelen's python. BCC boas are way up there too!

My favorite hot is one of several of the bitis genus.. including the gaboon viper, rhinoceros viper, and the lesser known bitis parviocula.

My second favorite would be the Burmese python. Venomous I would have to say Gabby, King and the Eastern Diamond Back rattler. The Russels Viper is also up there somewhere :juggle:

ball pythons will always be number one for me......ha.....my second is....well...just about any snake :O....i cant help that I like them all :) ...if i could keep any snake.....angolan pythons :)

constrictor-no doubt about it a burmese python (yay i won one:))

venomous- gaboon viper

Constrictor-Reticulated Python and Blood Python TIE

Hot-Spitting Cobra

Constrictor-- Burmese, Red Blood are a dead tie
Hot-- Golden Eyelash viper

Fave snake species after BP: RTB
Fave reptile after snakes: Crested Gecko
Fave animal after reptile: My cat

Russell's vipers rock.

I love my little burm too, they're in the top 10.

i would have to say my favorite non-venomous snakes are the blood pythons, and black headed pythons. its a tie between those two. favorite venomous is the cantil.

I like this thread very much :D Thanks for starting it Shelby :headbang:

I love cantil head markings.

Glad you like the thread.. I thought we needed something new to talk about.

ha ha....i love how the original question was 'What is your favorite snake species?"......but everyone answers with more than one snake species :) I guess we all love our herps ;)

Yep... Could go on and on...


For me it would be Olive Pythons and P. curtus curtus(Held one of each of Bob Clark's and just fell in LOVE). Of course I have to add in those Guyana Red Tails(the whole purple snake thing). I love Womas and Black-Headed pythons. White-Lipped and Savus are also on my "list".

Venomous... Just give me any good ol' Texan rattler, and I will be a happy camper. I do like Cottonmouths' faces though. I really like the Gaboons just because they are chunky as all get out, as well as those Eyelash Vipers(must be the flourescent yellow).

Constrictors -- Womas are the coolest and probably my next snake. I would love to get a Dumeril's Boa, but I think they might be a little too much on the large side for me. But when the pink is really pronounced, I think they may be the most beautiful snake on the planet.

Venomous -- I think Copperheads are fantastic. If my skills as a keeper ever progress to a point were I would feel the desire, comfort and capability of handling a hot snake it would most likely be a copperhead. Gaboon vipers are a close second. Eastern coral snakes are way up there as well for their beauty and incredibly toxic venom. And bushmasters are majestic.

Rachel

:confused: I'm pulled between a RTB (BCI) and a JCP, but I'd probably say the RTB is my favorite. :eyepoppin

I considered both a white-lipped and a savu at the tinley park show, but passed them up because they were WC. Beautiful animals.

A pair of womas are in my future as well.. I love their eye shadow!

RWillinnable - Dums rock! My 7'+ female is very heavy and STRONG, but what an awesome animal! She has kept her pattern and pinks quite well too. Definitely an animal to work up to.. very worth it.

Blood pythons (Python brongersmai)
Borneo & Sarawak short-tailed pythons (Python breitensteini)
Sumatran short-tailed pythons (Python curtus)
Blackheaded pythons (Aspidites melanocephalus)
Womas (Aspidites ramsayi)
Large-blotched pythons (Antaresia stimsoni)
Olive pythons (Liasis olivaceous)
Angolan pythons (Python anchietae)

True redtailed boas (Boa constrictor constrictor) - Suriname locality
Hog Island boas (Boa constrictor ssp)

Trans-Pecos ratsnakes (Bogertophis subocularis)
Graybanded kingsnkaes (Lampropeltis alterna)
Black milksnakes (Lampropeltis triangulum gaigeae)

Mottled rock rattlesnakes (Crotalus lepidus lepidus)
Banded rock rattlesnakes (Crotalus lepidus klauberi)
Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnakes (Crotalus willardi willardi) :worship:
Timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus)

Although you could put just about any rattlesnake on that list...they're all so cool...

King cobras (Ophiophagus hannah)
Coral cobras (Aspidelaps lubricus ssp)


Give or take a few!!!!

K~

1. Ball python
2. Royal python
3. P. regius

What can I say, I'm a ball guy! ;) :P :twisted:

-adam

BALLS!!

Though honestly I never met a python I didn't like . . . not even that psycho liasis fuscus that is hellbent on biting me . . . and p.curtus brongersmai . . . . and p.curtus curtus . . . and well you get the idea . . . but balls above all of course.

I hate to sound unoriginal, but the balls just do it for me. ;)

I might be tempted to get another type (maybe the kenyan sand boa) in the distant future, but for now I'm sticking with bps! :love:

Okay, how about next time you make a rule like you have to post a pic, or at least a link to a pic of any newly mentioned species!! I had to spend the better part of my lunch time looking up the snakes I wasn't sure of! :frustrate
My two favorites, other than my beloved Royals, are the Green Tree python and the Dwarf Reticulated python (no I don't have pics, or links I can use, either! :rolleyes: ) A friend in my herp society has a yellow headed dwarf retic. that I just can't take my eyes off of when she brings her to gatherings. Totally to die for!!! :headbang:

My second favorite are Emerald Tree Boas. They are beautiful snakes.

ok let me see I love all the morelia famoly, and the eye lash viper and gaboon are just sick, retic are just wow all the mophr are cool but they get to big for me,and seas snakes are the cooleste expesiality the yellow belly seas snake, and seeing more and more species of snakes if I but all that I like it will be a big list

after BPs, RTB, and then corns.

Speaking of rattlers, canebrakes rock.

http://www.barefootbushman.com/image...bCanebrake.jpg

Jampea dwarf retics are calling to me as well.. lol I'm going to have to end up sleeping on the deck at this rate.

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RWillinnable - Dums rock! My 7'+ female is very heavy and STRONG, but what an awesome animal! She has kept her pattern and pinks quite well too. Definitely an animal to work up to.. very worth it.

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I know that they are beautiful and docile, but I have to draw the line somewhere and a 6 foot thick-bodied constrictor seems to be my limit. I am sure that I could get a dumeril to become dog tame, but still, I just don't think I would ever feel like I could let myself go with one and try to bond with it because I would constantly feel the need to be on guard. Hopefully someday, breeders can breed some dwarf dumerils that grow to maybe 4 feet so the average snake keeper like myself can feel comfortable caring for them.

Rachel

Actually the place I got mine from has a dwarf dum.. I think they're selling it too.

where did you get him from. do they have a website?

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Actually the place I got mine from has a dwarf dum.. I think they're selling it too.

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Really? How long is it? I didn't think that there was such a thing as a dwarf dumeril.

Rachel

I got her from Classic Dum's. They are going out of business.. they have lots of ads on kingsnake though.

Dwarf dum - $800 4' 5lbs produced two litters thus far.

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=62&de=355578

Besides BPs, I would have to say RTB. I will be getting one of those soon I bet.
My favorite HOT would have to be a Black Mamba. The snake has to be one of the most agressive in the world, with the serious venom to boot. You just have to love something that goes out looking for a fight. I wouldn't get within 100ft of one knowingly, but they are awesome specimens.

I prefer west african green mambas.. check out the scales!

http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libr...e/96?offset=10

Shelby,
That is one sweet snake. It almost looks like a drawing. Is it as ill tempered as the Black Mamba?

I have heard they are VERY fast.. and I believe all mamba species are aggressive.

I just remembered another Hot I really liked. The Desert Night Snake. We kept one when I was stationed in Arizona for a few weeks, was a very docile snake. For its size, it was a very strong snake. Their venom isn't supposed to pose any real threats to humans, we used to collect em and play with em at work all the time when the boss couldn't keep us busy enough.

I haven't heard of that one before.

Since this has turned into a 'oh, I like this too' fest - I'll also mention the hairy bush viper as an uber cool hot.

http://www.bluechameleon.org/Photo%2...20hispidus.jpg

I will always love balls first and formost, but i have seen a very young Green Tree python recently and I think I am in love again. :)

Aside from ball pythons, I would have to say my favorite non-venomous is probably the red-tailed boa. As far as hots go, probably the Fer-de-lance.

womas are probably my favorite constrictors...

green tree vipers are some of my favorite hots, as well as mambas and that hairy bush viper was real sweet.

No one for the rhinoceros vipers??

Cmon I mean you get that nice beefy Gaboon look and fangs with some serious pop-tart coloration! http://www.bluechameleon.org/Photo%2...nasicornis.htm

Smulkin.. I noted bitis nasicornis in my first post!

My bad after having followed this a couple of days and not rereading from the first post each time . . .

Suriname RTBS are awesome, little too big for me though. Nicaraguan boas are cool too.

No mention of the argentine boa so far? Now that's a cool red tail.

:P


Not as a favoite but I definitely still would love to have a nice dark Argentine!

Yep.. darker, the better.

I think that the Gaboon viper has to be the best and most beautiful snake. Its colors amaze me. And I love the fat, short body type.

Ball pythons win as my favorite snake.

I think the short tails have moved up to second. My sarawak short tail is far more fascinating at this point than my IJCPs for some reason.

I would love to get my hands on a pair of angolan's some day though.

I love GTP's, but I keep thinking I really don't have the time to dedicate to working with one of them right now, unless I seriously downsized my entire animal count.

GTP's might be up there behind the ball python If I acutally had one.

As for hots.. I like the gaboon vipers, and the eyelash vipers.