Suggestion For New Snake

[dougefresh]

I'm going to the MD-Reptile Show this weekend and was looking for suggestions on a new snake, I already own a ball python so I'm kinda looking for something different.......I want something that can live happily in a 29 gal for a couple months, then like a 55 or 75 as an adult, preferably accepts being handled also...........

I really want a constrictor too, preferably a python or a small boa.........I've been looking into rainbow boas and children's pythons as options........any other suggestions?

 

[BIGgourami]

carpet pythons but may need larger than 75 and live in trees.
emerald tree boa
yenyan sand boa

 

[dougefresh]

carpet pythons but may need larger than 75 and live in trees.
emerald tree boa
yenyan sand boa

I was kinda interested in the carpets but they do need larger when adult like you said, a sand boa may work also............no emerald tree boa though as they don't like being touched.......

 

[Ophiuchus]

does it have to be a python or boa? Some of the large colubrids could work...

If you're looking for something really different, the giant Madagascar hognose snake is one of my favs. And there's gopher snakes, bulls, beauty snakes, and cribos.

 

[dougefresh]

does it have to be a python or boa? Some of the large colubrids could work...

If you're looking for something really different, the giant Madagascar hognose snake is one of my favs. And there's gopher snakes, bulls, beauty snakes, and cribos.

Yea, a colubrid would be easy but I want another python or boa.........

 

[dovii88]

gtp

 

[dougefresh]

gtp

Again, most don't liked to be handled.........Maybe I'll just settle for a colubrid and get a color morph of something.......

But does anybody know how much brazilian or columbian rainbow boa babies
usually run for?????

 

[BIGgourami]

he said no gtp
the sands handel nice if you pick them up from the bottom.
from the top they'll bite ya.

 

[dougefresh]

he said no gtp
the sands handel nice if you pick them up from the bottom.
from the top they'll bite ya.

Thanks good to know, I usually use a hook of some kind to pick up anyway.....

 

[Ophiuchus]

Brazilian Rainbows generally run between $150-200. Columbians may be slightly less.

There's also the viper boas and other Pacific boa species.