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oh Ill have to stop looking on this thread, I feel sick.. theres a house quite near me where the man owns 18 snakes... I dread to think what could happen if they escaped..
oh Ill have to stop looking on this thread, I feel sick.. theres a house quite near me where the man owns 18 snakes... I dread to think what could happen if they escaped..
Umm, the local rodent population would decrease? Unless he's keeping venomous snakes, you'd probably have nothing to worry about.
I've never seen a snake in a tree here, but we have numerous garter snakes, and occasionally ring-necked snakes. We see a garter snake in one of my gardens every time we go out there to weed or water. My family loves looking at them. In my excitement one day, I called out to the neighbor and her kids, and asked her if they wanted to come over and see our garter snake we'd just spotted. She got wide-eyed, shook her head no, and quickly shooed the children in the house. I guess not everyone shares our enthusiasm. LOL.
Giz, don't they need to move around? Not exercise exactly but just drape over limbs or have a "view"...? Or many you take them out of the stacks for recreation?
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Awww. She really is a loving little snake, and one of the few who "hangs out" with me regularly. She'll sometimes curl up in/near my lap, and stay there for hours if I let her!!
Oh, but in that photo she was actually looking hungrily at me... I had a dead mouse in the other hand.
I believe there are HUNDREDS of python species, and they're more varied than any other family of snakes. Not only do their colors & patterns vary greatly, but you also have a size range of about 4ft (i.e. Children's and Spotted Pythons) up to 18+ feet (Burmese). Plus they're found naturally on 4 continents - Africa, South America, Asia, and Australia. Unfortunately none are native to North America or Europe, so all pythons here were at one time imported.
My snakes are all under 6ft, mostly in the 4-5ft range, and live in what are called rack systems... which is basically like a bookshelf, with heat strips on every shelf and a separate tub for each snake. I have a total of 4 racks, 3 of which are in my bedroom and the other in the laundry room. You'd be surprised how little space they need, especially when they're in a professional rack.
Here's the setup in my old house, when they ALL lived in the bedroom:
I will! Check the general pets sub-forum, since that's where I've posted about previous clutches... I'll start a new thread when they're laid, and update when they hatch etc. Just checked on "big momma" (Mona) today, and she was all twisted up like a pretzel. That's a GREAT sign, since it indicates she's pushing the eggs down in preparation - meaning, they should be laid in the next 7-10 days as expected.
They don't seem to have much room in those tubs to move around. Although I'm guessing most snakes travel about largely to hunt...and if they know they will get a tasty mouse/rat every day or so, no need for that.
The snake-in-tree at my place is keeping cool in the tree by day...at times I see his tail, but mostly he pokes his head out, looks around...stays that way for awhile. Haven't seen him enough to confirm but I think it is a ringneck snake.
The snake-in-tree at my place is keeping cool in the tree by day...at times I see his tail, but mostly he pokes his head out, looks around...stays that way for awhile. Haven't seen him enough to confirm but I think it is a ringneck snake.
I don't know what area you live in but I can tell you that it is definitely not a Ringneck snake.
Depending on your locale, my bet is a Corn snake....a snake from the Rat snake family.
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