What is Your Dream Reptile?

What is your dream reptile(s) to have in your collection? If there were no constraints--money, caging, food, enrichment, supplies, veterinary care, etc.--if all of the needs of the animal were taken care of, what would you keep?

I think I have all mine to be honest .. I’ve had just about everything over the years and I’m really happy with my current snakes so I’ll go with this ..
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:rofl::rofl::rofl: That's quite a choice, Zinc...

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I think I have all mine to be honest .. I’ve had just about everything over the years and I’m really happy with my current snakes so I’ll go with this ..
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Sooo many questions, so little time.


Mine would definitely be a boelens python hands down. They are stunning animals and I would do nothing all day but ooh and ahh at the edge of it's enclosure while watching it.

I think about this question very often. I listen to a lot of Morelia Python Radio and it's one of the closing questions for their guests.

At the moment I'd have to say Oenpelli Python or maybe Australian Scrub Python, though I wouldn't turn down a Boelen's. Moluccan Scrubs are absolutely beautiful too. I've heard them called Golden Boelen's and that description makes them really appealing.

Simalia in general are fascinating to me. Just a bit edgy for my liking though I haven't personally worked with them. No heat seeking missiles for me for now.

A rainbow boa. The only way I would be comfortable owning one is if I could find an adult and if I had an enclosure with a running water system. I'm too paranoid to get a hatchling and I don't know how I could ever go away for a week without being afraid the snake wouldn't dehydrate and die.

I’m a reasonable girl: an albino alligator snapper, green anaconda, cottonmouth, and Nile crocodile.

So, apparently all of my dream reptiles fit into bins:

• If I had a spotter on demand: the "nerd crush" big temperate constrictors (diamond python, Argentine boa, Boelen's). Don't think I'd actually want to keep a Boelen's, though. That Simalia edginess is just too much for me!
• Mid-sized constrictors with big teeth and an even bigger price tag: rough-scale python, CBB GTP, CBB ETB
• If they came with a magic insect vending machine: panther, veiled, and/or Jackson's chameleon
• Technically have it already, but I'm thinking of building out a pair and paying for the genes I want will not be fun: high contrast anery BIL, ghost leopard Sonoran (yup, pure Sonoran ghosts exist!)

And, just for fun:

• Technically have it already, but oooooh, hey! That gene's theirs?...Wait, a pair of hets cost how much?!?: pied Sonoran (yup, the one pied boa on record is a Sonoran!)

I've been struggling to answer this question, & since I've already had my dream reptile, can I bring him back from the dead? :D He was an adult rattlesnake when he was given to me, & I "only" had him around for 17 years...I'd like another 17 years with him, OK? :D He was about 25 when he passed away. He was a Crotalus helleri (Southern Pacific), btw. :snake:

like this: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...is_helleri.jpg

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I’m a reasonable girl: an albino alligator snapper, green anaconda, cottonmouth, and Nile crocodile.

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I love all ALBINOS even human ones :)

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