Which snakes are on your wish list?

[sattva]

These are the snakes I am lusting after but can't afford right now...

Dumerils Boa
Toffee Ball Python
Mandarin
Kahl Sunglow Boa

Just to name a few of the top ones.... :yes:

[trailblazer295]

I'm actually pretty happy with my current collection. Pretty well balanced variations of snakes. I do have a bit of a weakness for red tails and MBKs.

[Tiny Boidae]

From a reasonable perspective? Going to be getting a Chinese Beauty soon, and hopefully a female Baird's at around the same time. Within the next five years I also hope to extend to some of the larger boids, either the red tails or the short tails, and maybe dabble in the smaller lizard species. Past that, I'd love to have a few Australian Water Dragons and maybe a nice burm. Also would love a big Pytas carinatus.

[riddick07]

I'm getting a pair of unrelated ridleyi from Zerkle this year. My family always shops early for christmas and I told them that was a good option.

I have a couple retic morphs I wouldn't mind buying but I'm not actively looking for another one. I do want a burm but I haven't seen one that I would buy yet. Chinese beautys and more boas are always on the list.

Mostly my wish list consists of more snake cages, heating elements, racks, herpstats, and hides. I'll probably start buying some of these in a few months instead of snakes.

[EL Ziggy]

I'm working on enclosure upgrades now as opposed to more snakes but once that's done I'm considering an albino olive python, SD retic, or scrub python.

[akane]

Well I've got some more kankakee bull snakes and a pair of pine snakes reserved. If the person trying to cb eastern fox snakes succeeds, he didn't observe his males mate but is hopeful, and I have the money those. Farther in the future I've been looking at spilotes (2 central to south american colubrids known as puffing snake, chicken snake, or yellow rat snake) or Orthriophis taeniurus callicyanous aka blue beauty rat snake or vietnamese rat snake which is classified in the old world rat snakes. Going to have to choose between one or the other most likely and the spilotes can get 10'.... That's a bit daunting even if they are somewhat lighter bodied.

Probably rosy boas. My husband likes them and they easily stack in 20g long tanks with little maintenance so they are pretty easy to fit here or there. Then something small like a garter snake species. My husband said our corn snake needs a mate when he was saying no more snakes lol I dunno if that will ever happen but if the space works I'm not complaining.

For not snakes I want an inexpensive lower end medium size display lizard and was thinking emerald swifts, house geckos just for feeders, and I'm testing out breeding crested gecko with thoughts of getting into black and creams.

[dave himself]

I've a few snakes I'd like if we had the room. First on the list would be a white phase sunfire female retic, next would be a Scrub python, and last but not least would be a labyrinth burm :)

[dannybgoode]

I'm working on enclosure upgrades now as opposed to more snakes but once that's done I'm considering an albino olive python, SD retic, or scrub python.

[Whispers] get a scrub ;)

For me I'm pretty much there. A really nice proven locality Suriname Boa constrictor, some kind of cat snake and a Madagascan ground boa (similar but even prettier than a Dumerils). I do want to persevere with a Candoia sp. also. Maybe a mackloti or woma.

That's not to say I'll get all of those but a really nice Boa constrictor would be hard to pass on.

[Scubadiver59]

Oh, I need to add a male Hogg Island Boa to my wish list...I need a mate for my female since I'm thinking about breeding Hoggs to keep the line alive in captivity.

[EL Ziggy]

[Whispers] get a scrub ;)



The pics of your scrubs planted that seed Danny :). I figure I'll let the Olive grow out for a year or two and then see if I'm up for the scrub. The size and temperament of the scrubs makes me want to challenge myself just a little more. :)

[dannybgoode]

The pics of your scrubs planted that seed Danny :). I figure I'll let the Olive grow out for a year or two and then see if I'm up for the scrub. The size and temperament of the scrubs makes me want to challenge myself just a little more. :)

Possibly the ultimate challenge from a non venomous snake. They may not quite get to the size of a retic (but there's plenty recorded at 20'+) or the bulk of an anaconda but their speed and power is like nothing else. They can strike with accuracy over 5' and can essentially support the length of their body in the horizontal from just one support point.

Trouble is given the varied beauty of the various localities I can see them being dangerously addictive.

[sattva]

Will... if space and money were no issue, I'd have to have one of these...
https://morphmarket-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/cache/94/9c/949c22a709a62963a0d3ba63cb67bca1.jpg

[trailblazer295]

Ziggy and Danny are terrible influences, I'm really liking the Olives.

[TRD]

Hungary in all its wisdom placed the snakes I want on the DWA list (rear-fanged species).

So my 'wishlist' transformed itself now to a real challenge. Basically if I want to have a hognose, I could just as well get a mamba or forest cobra. For obvious reasons they are on the same list (???)

Somehow the Philodryas genus isn't on the list, but those guys can really hurt you. They are interesting snakes nevertheless. May look into them, but my fear is that they will too be added to the list and then I would need to get rid of them without a license (which if you would know Hungary law, is basically impossible unless you work at a zoo).

[dannybgoode]

Ziggy and Danny are terrible influences, I'm really liking the Olives.

I could try and dissuade you but they really are incredible snakes to own. Really enjoying mine. Like really very much :D

[trailblazer295]

This is a joke right a mamba and a hog are the same?

[trailblazer295]

I could try and dissuade you but they really are incredible snakes to own. Really enjoying mine. Like really very much :D

You wouldn't even try to do that lol I know they get really big and I shouldn't own one when I live alone but man if I ever cross pathes with one it would be VERY difficult to walk away.

[dannybgoode]

This is a joke right a mamba and a hog are the same?

They're both DWA in Hungary for reasons unknown.

[trailblazer295]

They're both DWA in Hungary for reasons unknown.

I can understand mambas but a hog?

[yunghailstorm]

we're looking into getting a kenyan sand boa and a western hognose. I'm also currently in love with pied ball pythons

[ThirteenRavens]

Hmm...does wish equate to need? :D

I would have to say:

(obtainable at some point)

MBK
BEL ball python
Moonglow boa
Blood boa
Some sort of Khal/lipstick albino type boa
Opal cornsnake
Orchid cornsnake
Halloween cornsnake (extreme okeetee)
Tricolor hognose

(likely unobtainable unless I get really flipping lucky)
a boa like this bad boy...

06/14/12 A STORY ABOUT A BOA PART 3 "VPI MIDNIGHT GIN" | Vida Preciosa International, Inc. (http://vpi.com/2012/06/14/061412-story-about-boa-part-3-vpi-midnight-gin)

That's probably enough for now :yes:

[TRD]

I can understand mambas but a hog?

Yea, it beats me. For some reason they put rear-fanged non-lethal snakes on the DWA.

http://i.imgur.com/BgNcOxL.jpg

[ThirteenRavens]

Omg TRD that cracked me up!!! Heckin' adorable XD