Peninsula Ribbon Snake

[Bottomfeeder]

He's about 26", eating Rosies. In some of the pictures he's eating Goldfish, which aren't regular food, because of thiaminase content, but occasionally I use them when the store has no more Rosies. He currently resides in a 10g, but I'm upgrading to a 20 long soon. He's a very good handling animal. He just sits in my lap or on my neck or on my laptop as I type. And no, it's not because of listlessness due to a vitamin imbalance. I check him regularly for those.

And yes, some of those pictures are taken outside I take him outside a lot.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Fantastic snakes! Been wanting to see these pix for ages now Thanx for showing.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

No problem, Brucey. Glad you like my little buddy You ever take your Constrictor outside?

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

No problem, Brucey. Glad you like my little buddy You ever take your Constrictor outside?

To be honest i havent yet, we dont always get nice enough weather too in the UK & we dont have any grass its all block pavment and in once garden we have rabbits & guineapigs and used too on the other garden so i worry she may smell them and strike but i wanna do

 

[ceeej31]

very nice, but I'm pretty sure all cyprinids, rosies included, have a high thiaminase content not positive though
be sure to post pictures when you upgrade to the 20g!!

 

[Exodon Man]

Very nice, man!
I had a ribbon snake as my very first snake! They're loads of fun.

I'm very impressed that you can handle him so easily without getting bitten or musked. I wish my little northern water snake was that tame.....

 

[Bottomfeeder]

To be honest i havent yet, we dont always get nice enough weather too in the UK & we dont have any grass its all block pavment and in once garden we have rabbits & guineapigs and used too on the other garden so i worry she may smell them and strike but i wanna do

I'm sure she'd love itMine always does.

very nice, but I'm pretty sure all cyprinids, rosies included, have a high thiaminase content not positive though
be sure to post pictures when you upgrade to the 20g!!

To some extent they do, but most fish do... and Rosies have only a fraction of what Goldfish have. And I will do!

Very nice, man!
I had a ribbon snake as my very first snake! They're loads of fun.

I'm very impressed that you can handle him so easily without getting bitten or musked. I wish my little northern water snake was that tame.....

Yeah he's a great handling snake. I have only been musked a few times, two or 3 times since i got him in January, and only bitten twice, and both were while handfeeding him All Nactrene snakes, Garter/Water Snakes, usually tame after a bit of handling. You might try handling yours with gloves until he's calm enough to be free handled?

 

[TTTT]

He looks awesome dude!

I have only been musked a few times, two or 3 times since i got him in January

lol one of those times we were on the phone. that was hilarious

 

[Bottomfeeder]

More hilarious than when you had a live play-by-play of when I found the dog crap with the iPod headphone in it? And I almost got sick?


Thanks dude.

 

[coura]

I can garantee you rosie reds are as bad as gold fish is as tyaminase goes...of course they at least dont have copper on them but that is another story. Use mosquito fish wich you can easily breed, guppies likewise. You can also use frogs, slugs, deshelled snails, worms and "snake sandwiches" wich you can easily produce yourself. Very young tilapia, convicts and even cat fish fillet can be as well used.