oh man that would be cool

oh man i wonder if you can own sea snakes...cuz that would a super cool thing to own..yea buddy!

You know what would be cooler? King Cobras! AHHHHH COBRAS! :headbang:

I have seen tentacled snakes (erpeton tentaculatum) and elephant trunk snakes (acrochordus javanicus) on kingsnake several times. They are not easy to keep, however.

I was just kidding about the king cobra, they are cool, but you can't really bond with one too well. If someone owned one I would imagine it'd be more for decoration, and no one should buy any animal purely for decoration. :colbert:

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I was just kidding about the king cobra, they are cool, but you can't really bond with one too well. If someone owned one I would imagine it'd be more for decoration, and no one should buy any animal purely for decoration. :colbert:

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What do you mean by "decoration"? Are fish kept for decoration?

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What do you mean by "decoration"? Are fish kept for decoration?

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Fish are great pets. Took mine to the park to play frisbee. Yeah, took 3 hours for it to get to the frisbee, be he got it! :D

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Fish are great pets. Took mine to the park to play frisbee. Yeah, took 3 hours for it to get to the frisbee, be he got it! :D

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That would be your pet Dogfish, right? :P

I've got lots of 'decorative' pets. No touchie angry tarantula..

I don't think I can touch any tarantulas, angry or otherwise.
:(

Or fish. They freak me out. Strangely.

-Karen

I can hold one of my Ts, but I don't like to bother her normally. She makes me itch anyway.

Another reason for me not to want to hold Ts.

Though, I have to admit, some of them are quite ( I want to say "pretty" though I'm not sure that's the word..).....interesting.;)


-karen

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Though, I have to admit, some of them are quite ( I want to say "pretty" though I'm not sure that's the word..).....interesting.;)

-karen

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....Interesting...fascinating....strangely attractive....magnetically creepy? LOL I think I know how you feel. I have worked hard to get over a serious fear of spiders of all sorts. T's and spiders still give me the willies, but I'm not afraid of them anymore...and anytime I'm at an expo or something, I find myself lingering over the T's...drawn to them in spite of myself.

I do the same at pet stores/friend's w/ Ts houses...I have to check them out, but always with an apprehensve grimace.

_karen

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I can hold one of my Ts, but I don't like to bother her normally. She makes me itch anyway.

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hey April, do you still have that... oh what was it called?... darnit! well i know that its from new mexico, it was pretty creepy lookin, and it had claws like a lobster. lol, do you know what im talking about?

That's the giant vinegaroon.. it died shortly after I got it. I'm guessing it had something wrong with it.. it was WC. It ate and everything..

thats what it was! sorry to hear that, he was a cool little critter.

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That's the giant vinegaroon...

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Ohmygosh....I googled...and am scarred for life! :O The vinegaroon was bad enough...but I found a whole page of huge exotic, totally tricked-out bugs that I didn't even know existed. I swear I don't wanna go to sleep tonight! :spid0r: :bolt:

LOL, same thing just happened to me...I wonder if it's the same page.....yeow!

karen

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LOL, same thing just happened to me...I wonder if it's the same page.....yeow!

karen

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This one?
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/scorps.html
~shivers~

But yet again, just like the T's at the expo, I can't stop looking at it. Maybe there's hope for curing the creepies...although it doesn't feel like it.

EDIT: :hijackd: ! Sorry!!

Yeah, that's the page. I would consider getting a scorpion as I think they're pretty neat, and they don't creep me out like Ts do, but after seeing whipscorpions I think I've changed my mind.

-Karen

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oh man i wonder if you can own sea snakes...cuz that would a super cool thing to own..yea buddy!

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a fatal dose of sea snake venom is 0.05fl oz. the snake makes about 0.3-0.5fl oz. one bite could kill up to 10 people. but the fangs are set far back and they arent crazy biters.

I read that in my new book.....gosh this books got some good info!
(the encyclopedia of world wildlife by Mike and Peggy Briggs)
I wouldnt want a sea snake i can hardly take care of all the betta fishes needs. But who wouldnt want to say they own a king cobra..that just sounds cool! Although...would it be wise?

Wise? Well that depends on the person considering it! Those who have adequate experience can stay very safe with hots. The key is knowing the animal, and to have a plan if something goes wrong. Anyone considering getting into hots someday would learn a lot by owning an aggressive, but harmless snake for awhile, and learning how not to get bit, and how to safely handle and move an aggressive snake.

bugs aren't that bad till a scorpin calls over you at 4am but no matter what time a camel spider is just nasty.
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Camel spiders are CREEPY looking, but I'd like to have one someday anyway. :D I like creepy..

Luckily none of my inverts has gotten out.

crossing my fingers mine never get out since i'm setting up shelves to hold all my snakes and Ts in my bedroom!

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I can hold one of my Ts, but I don't like to bother her normally. She makes me itch anyway.

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I know the feeling, I had 2 Chilean Rose Hairs and the male was fine, but the female tried to tag me a couple of times. Both made me itch though, their hair is some kind of defense mechanism, almost like porcupine quills.

Sorry for hijacking! ;)

I would love to work my way up to a Albino Monocled Cobra some day. I think they are so cool and only priced at $150. I also want to get a copper head in the future. I love the pattern on them and the venom is some what on the weaker side. Also they are heavy bodied and hook great. But yeah, Albino Monocled Cobras are awesome.

I know this is an old thread, but I was reading though these anyways, and....*eek!* I don't do so well with the whole 8-legged thing...or any that look like them. They scare the life out of me, yet I still have to google each name to see what it looks like...dumb! haha And after looking at all the creepy crawlys, a cricket (an escapee from the chamelion cage) skittered past my foot....talk about a heart attack. :crix: I thought I was about to be eatten alive by whatever 'large spider' was attacking my foot. :bolt: I'm such a chicken when it comes to these things... :spid0r: :D

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I was just kidding about the king cobra, they are cool, but you can't really bond with one too well. If someone owned one I would imagine it'd be more for decoration, and no one should buy any animal purely for decoration. :colbert:

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i have 2 kings and they are more for milking than much else. nobody owns seasnakes aas they will die shortly after capture.

by the way my kings are far smarter than any bp. they know the exact time and day of the week when its feeding day. my ballpythons fail in comparison.:colbert:

I had read somewhere that King Cobras are one of the smartest snakes there is. Very in tune to what is going on around them.