Red tail Racer Pics

[Memnoch]

I just love this girl... She looks SO beautiful, and cruises the enclosure in the day!

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2831Resize_of_Racer-271103-02.jpg

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2831ratsnake011003-03-med.jpg

[Weather1]

That is one of the coolest snakes I have seen on this site. Is she CB or WC

Thanks for sharing..

[Simon]

Nice looking red tail~
those are amazing snakes!
I just love them!

[Katt]

Wow, yeah I have to agree, gorgeous!!! CB or WC?? Our experience with WC has not been good.

[Memnoch]

I was told that she was CB, but I doubt it. If any thing I really think she is a LTC WC.

But I've had a couple of close death experiences with her. The store that sold her to me told me to treat her like any other ratsnake (moderate humidity etc.) Then one day she got all white... So I decided to put her in tupperware and bump the humidity up to 90% after reading about their natural distribution (mangroves etc). 1 week later she shed, and off came probably several layers... I'm sure it was thick enough to make a boot or so... :-)

As of now, she is in a Vision #222 enclosure with humidity around 80% and she seems to be doing fine... Essentially I just started to treat her like a GTP or an ETB...

[JD@reptiles]

DAMN! i envy you. thats like the #1 snake on my list! and i cant find the darn things!!!

[Vanan]

Essentially I just started to treat her like a GTP or an ETB...

That there might just be the trick to keeping these guys alive. Good job! Beauty! :)

[Dani33]

She's a beauty!

[CDN-Cresties]

Very cool looking snake

-Steve-

[Oliverian]

Beautiful! What is the purpose of having a red tail? I love the look of the bright green scales on the black skin. Absolutely stunning! Good find. :)
-TammyR

[TheRedDragon]

:jawdrop: WOW! I love her brilliant colours!

[Scales Zoo]

I'm guessing the red tail is used for caudal luring.

Byron on this list maintained some very healthy ones for quite some time. He gave them a large cage, humidity, the ability to get nice and warm, but to also get cool. It was a nice display, live pothos and everything.

Hopefully he will add his 2 cents, he did a lot of research.

Ryan

[ryan337]

She has wicked coloring!

[Clownfishie]

Absolutely gorgeous!! :D That is one killer snake...

[Byron]

As Ryan mentioned I kept red tails that did quite well for me. I built a rather large vertically oriented enclosure 4ft wide, 2.5ft deep and 6ft tall. I painted the enclosure to mimic mangroves complete with natural logs and branches running from top to bottom. Live plants were put on several ledges built into the enclosures corners and encouraged to grow into the branches. Fluorescent lighting was installed as well as two under tank heaters, which were installed on ledges with hide boxes on top of them. The snakes were feed while still in the trees. Infact we found taking them out of the enclosure to feed in a container greatly reduced the chances of a successful feeding considerably. The enclosure was misted twice daily (the snakes drank water droplets and rarely if at all used their water bowl) this coupled with the natural plants kept the humidity at a level that promoted good sheds. This set up seemed to work quite well on my animals hopefully you find some of this useful.

[Scott Wahlberg]

What a great looking snake. your very lucky!

[Memnoch]

Bryon: How many red tails did you have in that enclosure?

I just love them, because they perch during the day and constantly move around the enclosure (presumably hunting for food) and then they go to bed when I go to bed.

I just hate looking at an enclosure that is full of decorations and no snake b/c it's hiding or sleeping.... And I love how she puffs out her throat when she gets annoyed... If she was more tolerable to handling I think she'd be my favourite snake, but right now my ETB is my fav. simply b/c it hasn't even striked at me yet.

I think the biggest mistake with keeping these guys is calling them a ratsnake. When you call them a ratsnake people tend to want to treat them like one (medium humidity etc.) . I just want to reemphasize that they are not ratsnakes, and they are not even close relatives of them. (Yes this was a very random comment, but hey I'm bored... ;-)

Memnoch.

[Tim_Cranwill]

Very beautiful. Great job with her. :)

[Byron]

I kept a pair of snakes in the enclosure. I to found them to be a very active snake, which made them very interesting to watch. My experience with handling these guys has been that they are unpredictable and quite aggressive. (I have noted the puffing up of the neck as well) Mine drew blood on more than one occasion. I would have to agree that keeping red tails as you would a rat snake would eventually lead to its demise, sounds like your on the rite track. She is one beautiful animal.

Byron

[dobbsy2k4]

georgous snake mate