I have been Christened!

[Moofins07]

By a Sinoloan Milk Snake.

I posted a separate thread less than a week ago, wondering if I should consider getting a Sinoloan in the future. Here I was, thinking it would be a complete hassle just to find one...

... And there's one in a pet store right up the hill, just in today.

But my, is he/she ever feisty! The staff are nice enough to allow you to handle any animal in the store, so after getting profusely urinated and defecated on by this hatchling, I get tagged on my left middle finger.

I didn't feel a darn thing! This poor little thing must have been so frustrated that it couldn't scare me off with a little nip. But, my main question is, when it comes to king/milk snakes, is it 'once a biter, always a biter'? Do they calm with age? (Oh, and I'm having a problem with the price: $149.99? But I suppose that's pet store prices... Bah!)

Not that I'm worried about its measly little love-taps.

[Hulihzack]

They can definitely calm down. When I got my milks, 7/9 of them were huge spazz's. A few months later and all 9 of them are easily handled. They actually calmed down very fast, but they were one and a half years old when I got them. Never got bit and only got musked once. They're still nervous and twitchy, but I think that just adds to their personality.

[Moofins07]

... That, and I would like to redeem myself, for realizing that I've been spelling the name incorrectly this whole time!

Sin-A-loan! There we go!

[Moofins07]

They can definitely calm down. When I got my milks, 7/9 of them were huge spazz's. A few months later and all 9 of them are easily handled. They actually calmed down very fast, but they were one and a half years old when I got them. Never got bit and only got musked once. They're still nervous and twitchy, but I think that just adds to their personality.

Hahah, lucky you. I got more than "musked", that's for sure. This one I saw seemed to be at least 12-14 inches long, maybe 15, so how old do you think that would be? A few months?

[Hulihzack]

Hahah, lucky you. I got more than "musked", that's for sure. This one I saw seemed to be at least 12-14 inches long, maybe 15, so how old do you think that would be? A few months?

I'm not exactly sure how big Sinaloans are when they hatch but that sounds about right.

[Brandon Osborne]

I've never ever seen a nervous or twitchy sinaloan milk. I'm wondering if the snake you held is actually a honduran. They are usually very jumpy and not afraid to bite as babies. Every sinaloan I've seen in the last 20 years has been calm....even hatchlings.

[PyramidPythons]

My little Sinaloan, Kali, is a bit skittish (fast movements scare her), but she is definitely not a spazz, nor is she a biter. Even when she was in shed, she still let me handle her just enough to take a couple of pics...and didn't even once complain. I wasn't sure if I just got a really mild mannered Milk, or if that was normal for Sinaloans, but the more I hear about them....the more I read that they are, for the most part, more calm than the Hondurans.

[BiggBaddWolf]

I have found that milksnakes tend to stay a bit jumpy, whereas kingsnakes will GENERALLY calm down pretty well, just my personal experience, not that I am an EXPERT, and the price does seem a little high, but if you really like the snake then by all means go for it...