Anyone here keep snakes?

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Im after some advice for a beginner on keeping snakes? ie which is the best for a beginner, how much should i expect to pay, etc etc.

Can anyone help?
 
Generally corn snakes (of any variety) are the best kind to go for if you are a beginner, look to pay 30-50 for the snake and £100 for a decent vivarium/heat mat that would be ok for a full grown corn snake.
 
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Cornsnakes are nice ones for a beginner :)

Normally very docile and don't mind being handled

Get a vivarium - some places might tell you to just use a fish tank but don't - a wooden viv is the thing to have

You're looking at about £200 to get started off - that includes the Snake, Viv & Heater etc

Normally feed them about once a week ... food ranges from about 50p to about £3/4

I've not had snakes for about 5/6 years now so the prices are probably a bit out of date but you get the general idea
 
Piggymon said:
Normally feed them about once a week ... food ranges from about 50p to about £3/4

I've not had snakes for about 5/6 years now so the prices are probably a bit out of date but you get the general idea
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cant you just feed them things like cats and other stuff like spiders and worms from outside?
 
I used to have an albino california king snake. At one point I didn't handle it for quite a while... big mistake. Ouch.
 
i used to have a royal python. very docile and easy to look after.

you can buy frozen mice from the pet shop and just defreeze on the day you want to feed..
 
I had 3 corn snakes and all had different characters.
Even feeding them was different.
One liked to strike so I held the mouse with tweezers. One took it off me like a dog and the other had to have it forced down its throat.
I made my own vivarium and paid the price. I came home one night and the temperature read 120 degF and two of them were dead.
The other escaped in the house and we never found it.
 
dmpoole said:
I had 3 corn snakes and all had different characters.
Even feeding them was different.
One liked to strike so I held the mouse with tweezers. One took it off me like a dog and the other had to have it forced down its throat.
I made my own vivarium and paid the price. I came home one night and the temperature read 120 degF and two of them were dead.
The other escaped in the house and we never found it.
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damn :( sorry to hear that
 
We've got an amelanistic corn snake. '05 hatchling about 18" in length.

Snake5.jpg


http://spiders.brutalhosts.com/Snake/Snake6.jpg linked as it's a bit gruesome.
 
I spent £35 on my Corn snake (Scarlet) about 5 years ago, I got a deal for all the bits n' pieces (vivarium too) for a total of £100. Since then she's had two more vivarium's but the one she's in now is a tank that my dad and I built. It's 102x57x54 centimetres (WxHxD). A pretty big tank and it has a glass front.

She's 5ft now, she won't get any bigger.

 
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