Some ideas please...

[BallPython713]

Hey everyone!

I am considering getting another snake :wink: I just love them soo much! And since my current BP is doing great, I thought I might expand my horizons. I would like one that would be a convenient size (4-5' as an adult), a boa or a another python, docile and gentle (mellow like a BP), affordable price ($50-$90 for a youth), and is pretty :wink:. Or, do you think I should sex my current BP and get another BP of the opposite sex so one day I could breed them?

Thanks!!

[Brandon.O]

i also want to get another bp or another corn to breed to the ones i have now

i suggest a corn snake, they come in so many differnt colors and are super easy to care for.They get to be about the size you want (4-5 feet tops) and are very cheap.I got my baby candy cane corn snake for only 40 dollars.I want to get another one, a snow male,either that or a normal so i can try my hand at breeding in the future.

[Schlyne]

If you're looking into a different boid, I believe Kenya Sand boas are pretty small. I don't know anything about the temperament though.

[BallPython713]

Yeah, I have thought about corns, but I really like the Boa/Python species. Unless if I could get an adult, I've had a bad experience with babies....

I've thought about Jungle/Carpet Pythons, Rosy Boa (not too sure on the pattern though), and maybe a Hog Island Boa...but they're more harder to find and more expenive...

Thanks for the ideas!!

[Brandon.O]

yeah i like rosy boas, they are sweet.

hmmm aside from another ball python i dont think there is any who stay at about 4-5 feet.And red tails , the smallest they get is 6 or seven feet(males do) if im correct.

what kind of bad experience did you have with babie corns ??

[BallPython713]

I got a baby Cornsnake (I had been wanting snakes for a long thim up till then). It wouln't eat. I tried everything that was possible...I tapped the pinkie against the head, I cut the head open (yes, I know - a little queasy, but at that point I was desperate), etc. but to no sucuss. On the 31st of October, 2000, it died. The petshop had a 7 day exchange system so we were able to get another one because it died. Well, the same story happened wit htat one too. It died a week later. I never got another snake until February of 2003, a BP, from the same petstore. We had some feeding issues, but eventually it began to eat. I was so excited! BP's are much hardier than corns. I still have to same BP today. It's grown a foot and 3 inches and gained around a pound since then.

[BallPython713]

But now that I'm a little more experienced, maybe I could get a little older one (youth). They are SO pretty and cheap! A little more on the active soide compared to BP's.

[Brandon.O]

wow that must have been hard (having those babies die on you) i couldent imagine.

i got mine from a local breeder,shes really healthy and eats like a pig !

[ffighterstu]

I had a similar experience with a corn too when I was about 14. I had just gotten about about a month before and it was eating well. I went on vacation and my mom was supposed to feed it while I was gone. When I came back I found the snake dead with the butt and legs of a pinky sticking out of it's mouth. My mom basically fed it one that was too big for it....

9 years later now and I have my first snake since that one.

[chong_python]

The petshop had a 7 day exchange system so we were able to get another one because it died

It wouln't eat. I tried everything that was possible...I tapped the pinkie against the head, I cut the head open (yes, I know - a little queasy, but at that point I was desperate), etc. but to no sucuss

In my oppinon the snake obviously died of stress. When you first get a snake you should wait at least a week before feeding. Hes not going to eat in a new encloser right away. And hitting a pinky at the corns head within the first week of a highly stress move is obviously going to stress him out immensily or to death in your case.