Introducing Everyone

riddick07 · 09-23-15, 06:43 PM

So instead of creating a bunch of threads for all my different ones I figured everyone could be introduced in just one!

My first two that I got last summer were cornsnakes. A female striped bloodred and a male butter.

Riddick

Cordelia

The other cornsnake that I got next...she is actually one I wanted back when I first got into snakes but for some reason never got one. A female sunglow motley...she is just about perfect in my opinion!

Ivy

My rat snakes include a male white sided, a female axanthic blonde phase trans-pecos, a female albino grey, and male albino chinese beauty.

Unnamed

Eve

Athena

Roy- He doesn't know how to sit still...he hooks onto everything and if I turn away for a minute he is long gone...

riddick07 · 09-23-15, 06:47 PM

My female black milk and male 50/50 cali king.

Vera

Bodacious- He is a brown and cream color even though I can never seem to quite catch it in photos.

My new one that should be here next week! The photo is from the breeder you can probably still find him posted online somewhere. A male hypocalico chinese beauty.

Albert Clark · 09-23-15, 08:19 PM

Now that's a super collection right there! All great looking reptiles. Congrats and thanks for sharing those pics.

prairiepanda · 09-23-15, 08:58 PM

Amazing snakes! You've got quite a colourful collection! I've never seen that trans pecos morph before; it's gorgeous!

Can I ask how much that hypocalico beauty cost you? That's something that has been on my wish list for a while but I haven't seen them for sale.

riddick07 · 09-23-15, 09:10 PM

She is from VMS I had never even heard of the trans pecos before i saw them on their site. She's much calmer than the white sided and the albino grey rats.

The hypocalico beauty was 250 plus shipping. He is from Larry Keller if I remember my quick google of him he had the first hypo beauties. I expected to wait quite awhile to come across some of the beauty morphs and I was surprised when I saw his calicos pop up the other day. I tend to browse snakes for sale while procrastinating at work (jumped on the post practically as it was put up haha)....and I'm still one of the fastest for getting my work done not sure what that says about everyone else...

**EL Ziggy** · 09-23-15, 11:00 PM

Wow, what a gorgeous collection Riddick. Very impressive.

dave himself · 09-24-15, 11:05 AM

That is some collection as said above, and if I had to pick a favourite it would be Roy

he's stunning

riddick07 · 09-25-15, 09:00 AM

Roy is an ex breeder I found for sale and he has completely converted me to the beauty snake fan club. When he hooks onto things you can manhandle him to get him off even his head. I am looking into a bigger enclosure since he is super active much more than I was expecting. I'll either do a 48Lx24Dx48H or a 72Lx24Dx48H. I've been looking at the animal plastics arboreal cages since I just got a rack from them. I was thinking the 48Lx24Dx48H since I can put two of those side by side with the new chinese I just bought unlike the bigger cage. I had the thought that I could stack the 6ft on top of two smaller ones since I have plans for a blue beauty at some point....I'd have to email AP to see if they think the cages could hold a 6ft without issues.

I've heard that people cage some of the beauties together with no problems, so I've given that some thought for the two chinese ones but I'm not overly sure. They are both males if that would affect anything... I would get the 6ft one if I tried to cage them together. Roy doesn't have an aggressive feeding response...he is kind of lazy about it honestly for such an active snake, so with him at least I wouldn't be worried about feeding time if I caged them together. Obviously I have awhile before the new beauty is up to size to decide and observe his temperament!

Sylphie · 09-25-15, 09:07 AM

I'm not a very pro, but I talked with a lot of breeders and people who are having years of experience with rat snakes. Yes, beauties, like many other rat snakes can be kept together, but you must watch for a few things. One, it's better to not co-hab two males as they can fight for the territory, two, not every snake has the "Friendly enough" personality for the companions, so if you'll see that one of the snakes is aggressive/dominant for the others you should certainly replace that snake to the separate onclosure. And of course while feeding it's best to feed in separate boxes/places. I for example am keeping my Russian Rats perfectly fine together, but while feeding the one with stronger feeding response is feed in their enclosure, while the other on my hands, and I'm always waiting for them to calm down a little before putting them together again. If they are similiar size then they are really fast recognizing that it's not a prey, but their cagemate.

Well, that's about my experiences and point of view, hope you didn't feel offended by it

And I love your corn snakes! The other are cool too ofc

riddick07 · 09-25-15, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sylphie

I'm not a very pro, but I talked with a lot of breeders and people who are having years of experience with rat snakes. Yes, beauties, like many other rat snakes can be kept together, but you must watch for a few things. One, it's better to not co-hab two males as they can fight for the territory, two, not every snake has the "Friendly enough" personality for the companions, so if you'll see that one of the snakes is aggressive/dominant for the others you should certainly replace that snake to the separate onclosure. And of course while feeding it's best to feed in separate boxes/places. I for example am keeping my Russian Rats perfectly fine together, but while feeding the one with stronger feeding response is feed in their enclosure, while the other on my hands, and I'm always waiting for them to calm down a little before putting them together again. If they are similiar size then they are really fast recognizing that it's not a prey, but their cagemate.

Well, that's about my experiences and point of view, hope you didn't feel offended by it

And I love your corn snakes! The other are cool too ofc

Not sure what I would find offensive! As luck would have it my little male is actually a female. The breeder thinks she was mislabeled when he first did everyone. Good thing he double checked

I think Roy has the tempermant for it. He is a very laid back kind of guy that just goes with the flow. He hasn't shown any aggression with me sticking my arm in to clean or the cat sticking her head in while my back was turned. Luckily this cage was the beauty and not my boa...not sure how I'd explain what happened to the foster kitten if it had been the boas cage.

Of course the new girl is tiny right now so there is still going to be quite a bit of time before I would actually try one cage for them. Plus, I have no idea what she is going to be like...

Sylphie · 09-26-15, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by riddick07

Not sure what I would find offensive! As luck would have it my little male is actually a female. The breeder thinks she was mislabeled when he first did everyone. Good thing he double checked

I think Roy has the tempermant for it. He is a very laid back kind of guy that just goes with the flow. He hasn't shown any aggression with me sticking my arm in to clean or the cat sticking her head in while my back was turned. Luckily this cage was the beauty and not my boa...not sure how I'd explain what happened to the foster kitten if it had been the boas cage.

Of course the new girl is tiny right now so there is still going to be quite a bit of time before I would actually try one cage for them. Plus, I have no idea what she is going to be like...

You know it was all rather logical and nothing new, but still sounding like "know-it-all", so I didn't want to sound like "i'm the only logical one her, and you are not too smart"

English isn't my first language and I can't sometimes write as good as I want and it sometimes sounds not like I want

Good luck then! I'm keeping together two 2yo Russians, male and female, male is my fav one, totally calm, bold and curious, while female... she was often very shy, nervous and has really strong feeding response. I was rather afraid of putting other snake with her, but since they are together she started to be more brave, wandering the cage (it's not because she's stressed, they are having enough space to choose if they want to lay together or not) and if I'm near it they both are immediately looking at me. Only her feeding response is still very strong, haha!

sirtalis · 09-26-15, 01:45 PM

Man, that albino beauty is amazing! Who was the breeder you got it from?

riddick07 · 09-26-15, 03:02 PM

Scott Powley from Powley Exotic Reptiles! I was on the verge of buying a blue beauty when I found the ad for Roy. Definitely no regrets here on my purchase