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    Question 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?
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    Re: What is Your Dream Reptile?

    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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    That's quite a choice, Zinc...
    Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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    Re: What is Your Dream Reptile?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zincubus View Post
    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.
    Last edited by Toad37; 01-11-2021 at 11:16 PM.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I’m a reasonable girl: an albino alligator snapper, green anaconda, cottonmouth, and Nile crocodile.
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    Re: What is Your Dream Reptile?

    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!)
    0.1 Sonoran Boa sigma​: "Adelita" ('19 Hypo het. leopard)
    1.0 Boa imperator longicauda: "Kuzco" ('19 het. anery)
    0.1 West Papuan Morelia spilota​: "Pandora" ('20)

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    I've been struggling to answer this question, & since I've already had my dream reptile, can I bring him back from the dead? 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? He was about 25 when he passed away. He was a Crotalus helleri (Southern Pacific), btw.

    like this:
    Last edited by Bogertophis; 01-12-2021 at 02:21 AM.
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    Re: What is Your Dream Reptile?

    Quote Originally Posted by wnateg View Post
    I’m a reasonable girl: an albino alligator snapper, green anaconda, cottonmouth, and Nile crocodile.
    I love all ALBINOS even human ones




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