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06-25-04, 09:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Thomasville, Georgia (for now)
Age: 40
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Oldest snake?
Who here has the oldest snake? I always see post for longest and heaviest. I want to know the oldest.
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06-25-04, 09:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Kingston Ontario
Age: 46
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My oldest is 10 years old
Brandon
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06-25-04, 10:06 PM
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Ive heard snakes at 40 years! No proof though...but isnt the expectancy for most around 20 years?
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06-25-04, 10:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Thomasville, Georgia (for now)
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Yea something like that but I want to know what the oldest all of yall have.
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06-25-04, 10:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr-2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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my oldest is a whole year!! 
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06-26-04, 07:50 AM
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Join Date: May-2003
Location: Richmond VA
Age: 55
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My oldest that I know the ages of are about 11 or 12 years old (Taiwan Beauty Snake and a Coastal Carpet Python bought as CB youngsters). Some of my other snakes came in as adults, so I don't have exact ages for them.
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Lora
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06-26-04, 08:05 AM
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Join Date: May-2002
Location: Ontario
Age: 50
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Out of curiosity, is their life spam equal to that of their size? For example, in the dog world, little dogs live longer then large breeds. Does the same hold true for herps on average?
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06-26-04, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Mar-2002
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No. Not really.
Ball Pythons are a long lived species with one recorded at 47 years of age. While corns, that are slimmer snakes usually don't make it past the 30 mark. And most under 20. I think retics can live a very long time too...........although I am not sure. So it really doesn't exactly fit in with the dog thing that I know of.
Marisa
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06-26-04, 05:21 PM
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My oldest snake is an 18 year old burmese python.
Ham
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06-26-04, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Feb-2004
Location: midwest US
Posts: 130
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I had a cottonmouth that lived 23 years (it was a newborn when I got him) and a california king that was in my collection 21 years until he died. He was a least a year old when I got him. He was wild caught. The cottonmouth was captive born and was over 6' when he died.
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06-26-04, 06:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: michigan
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i heard of a boa constrictor imperitor living to be 42 years old in the miami zoo!
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06-27-04, 12:22 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Calgary, AB
Age: 49
Posts: 5,638
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My current oldest is a 15 year old Colombian Rainbow Boa.
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07-01-04, 04:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep-2003
Location: Arizona, USA
Posts: 666
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My current oldest is a nine-year-old female ball python. Otherwise I have a wild caught tiger rattlesnake that is definately full grown (and was full grown when I found him), but I have no idea what his age could be. For all I know, he is 23! lol...
Jennifer
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07-04-04, 11:57 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Age: 57
Posts: 96
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My current oldest is a 23 year-old common boa (female)....my previous oldest was a 29 year-old rainbow boa.
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Director, Reptile Rescue Alberta
http://members.shaw.ca/reptile.rescue/
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07-06-04, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2004
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my male columbian rainbow boa was wild caught as an adult, and the person who owned him before me had him for 23 years. i had him for nine before he died. that makes him at least 33.
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