* Popular enough to be kept by more than a handful of die-hard fans.Originally Posted by Skiploder
* Enjoyed enough by the general herpkeeping public to be referred to as something other than "that brown/green snake"
* Kept by enough people that there are more than two decent caresheets to be found on the entire Web
* Kept frequently enough that the Liasis board on this and other forums doesn't sit dormant for months on end until somebody who has already posted dozens of pictures of their snakes posts them again (or posts discussion topics like this) just to try to generate some activity on the forum.
All I'm saying is that with corns, kings, milks, balls, redtails, burms, etc. you seem to have an almost endless supply of color and pattern variations. Each one makes that morph the next "must have" version of an already popular snake. For something like a Macklott's python, there isn't even an albino form that I'm aware of, so it seems unlikely that they'll explode into popularity overnight like some other species have done in recent years.
Most Liasis also have a reputation that precedes them - almost every reference I can find about this genus before about 2002 focuses on how aggressive they are. That's turned around slightly in the past few years and now I at least see "they'll grow out of it." Of course, other snakes have this reputation too...look at GTPs for example. I keep these too, and it seems to me that most people who see mine bite me from time to time almost invariably lean towards "but they look so cool!" As a result of that, even green trees, which have less variation than most commonly kept snakes are
increasingly popular in captivity.
I think they're great, but I don't see this happening for the Liasis genus...
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