[Iridemtb]

So I went to a reptile show and bought this snake from a reputable breeder. Pretty cool little fella, just your average ball python. It will get 3-5 feet and they are thick snakes, similar to my...well you know. My best friend, basically a brother to me, picked up a female which will grow up to 6 feet.

I bought a mouse (this one was raised on frozen/prekilled mice) and he wouldn't go for it if I held it infront of his face, or left him with it for a few hours by himself.The thing didn't eat and wouldn't accept a mouse, which is common when they are young apparently, so I had to put the mouse in the suckers mouth, and hold the back of the snakes head and get that mouse in there. He started eating it then haha.

I named the little guy Diesel. He's really tame, I can pet his head and everything. Pretty rad.

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[jonKranked]

oshiwa snake!

 

[dhmike]

Cool .

 

[stoney]

Don't forget to weight the top of the terrarium. I've had a few friends who had runners because they didn't weight the top, even with small snakes.

 

[gonefirefightin]

I used to catch and sell rattle snakes in high school. now I cant stand snakes

 

[Iridemtb]

Yea, I am keeping books on it now. It shouldn't escape, he's weak right now anyways.

 

[Scrub]

Well now you have to get another pet and name it Vin

 

[syadasti]

I used to catch and sell rattle snakes in high school. now I cant stand snakes

Go to FL, you can hunt burmese, reticulated, ball, and rock - they are biopollution down there.

ball python: Python regius - Everglades Invasive Species

Burmese are currently the worst problem (on this week or watch the full episode online):

Invasion of the Giant Pythons - Invasive Burmese pythons in Florida | Nature | PBS

 

[Ciaran]

I used to catch and sell rattle snakes in high school. now I cant stand snakes

Why does this not surprise me? Man, you've been trying to kill yourself since you were a kid! ;-) They should change your custom title to "Highlander".

 

[Iridemtb]

I used to catch and sell rattle snakes in high school. now I cant stand snakes

I saw rattlesnakes for sale at the reptile show. Who would buy one and why? I don't get it.

 

[gonefirefightin]

I would catch them in abandoned gold mines close to where i lived in the sierra nevadas of california. at one time I had 7 large aquariums in the basement and would haul them to sacramento every week or so. made 25-45 bucks a snake depending on size and would usually haul 20-30 in every week. got bit a couple times but nothing serious.

 

[Iridemtb]

I would catch them in abandoned gold mines close to where i lived in the sierra nevadas of california. at one time I had 7 large aquariums in the basement and would haul them to sacramento every week or so. made 25-45 bucks a snake depending on size and would usually haul 20-30 in every week. got bit a couple times but nothing serious.

Can you die from rattle snakes? Did they just bite you "blank" (no poison just fangs as a warning)? Who would buy those suckers and for what purpose? That is good money man. At least to a 20 year old college student.

 

[gonefirefightin]

I would catch them in the cold months, they were slow and werent so aggressive. the two bites I got were pretty mild, only one required a ER visit and still nothing happened at the hospital. got a pretty good scar inside my thigh from it though.

the dealer said the customers that usually bought them were pretty eccentric.

 

[mandown]

GFF file photo with his sensei

 

[DirtyMike]

Meh... rattlesnakes are actualyl fairly easy to handle. As GFF showed here though, if you play with fire, it grows fangs and bites you.

I used to buy rattlesnakes for food for my King snakes... now thats awesome to watch

 

[Krzr3000]

Nice, fatten him up. Looks like stuck shed on its head 4th pic down. Might wanna give it a soak and/or bump up the humidity.

 

[kickstand]

I hate snakes, they creep the **** out of me.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I grew up in the California Sierra Nevada's too. Rattle Snakes were fairly prevalent. Killed a bunch through the years, once with a stick and a swiss army knife (still have the skin) and my brother ran over one on his bike, but it never occurred to me that it might be a good idea to capture one alive.

 

[insanitylevel9]

have you gotten it a leash yet and taken it for a walk i heard thats good for snakes.

 

[Iridemtb]

Nice, fatten him up. Looks like stuck shed on its head 4th pic down. Might wanna give it a soak and/or bump up the humidity.

Yes I have since then soaked him and the skin came off. I spray his tank regularly too now to keep the humidity at 60-70% (babies can use the extra humidity I have read and was told by the breeder).

have you gotten it a leash yet and taken it for a walk i heard thats good for snakes.

No I haven't gotten the snake a leash yet. I probably should though. What have you heard about these IL9? I thought a nice long retractable one would be good.

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[insanitylevel9]

No I haven't gotten the snake a leash yet. I probably should though. What have you heard about these IL9? I thought a nice long retractable one would be good.

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i hear dog leashes work you just need to order a snake adaptation kit so it works better.

 

[Iridemtb]

I figured the clip on it would work for now. It would probably fit around it's neck, but not it's body or head.

 

[bizutch]

I hate snakes, they creep the **** out of me.

I agree 100%. I have this really strange thing where when bad things are going down in my life, I have horrible dreams about snakes. First one, I fell out of a boat, got my foot caught in the rope and was being dragged and a moccasin came up on my chest.

Then there was the Indiana Jones style nightmares that were waking dreams that I was standing there (after having gone through a lamp and desk)....and they slowly faded out of sight as dream became reality.

Then, there was the time I walked straight through the corner of a table (epic shin scar).

Did reading and figured out when to identify the dream and that I had control. Hadn't had one in over a year and last week, I actually grabbed the snake from behind the head and handled it to protect someone else.

Who knew I was a "Dream Warrrriiiooorrrrrr"?

 

[Brian HCM#1]

GFF file photo with his sensei

Mr. Miyagi?

 

[skibunny24]

I used to catch and sell rattle snakes in high school. now I cant stand snakes

you would!

 

[bean]

I saw rattlesnakes for sale at the reptile show. Who would buy one and why? I don't get it.

I would ask the same question about any sort of snake.

 

[sstalder5]

Don't forget to weight the top of the terrarium. I've had a few friends who had runners because they didn't weight the top, even with small snakes.

This. There's about 10 snakes in our zoology lab and they all poke at the top of their tanks all the time. One time a ball python pushed a softball sized rock off the top of his tank in the middle of a lecture. Scared the chit out of everyone who wasn't watching