Snakes

Snakes are pretty easy (from my experience) to take care of. I would say the best thing to feed them (depending on their size of course) would be pinkies. My snake is a California King Snake about 3 feet long and maybe 3/4 of an inch wide. Shes beautiful! Thats what she eats though (and the occasional smaller snake when we have the extra money, hence the name King Snake) I feed her bout 4 pinkies every week to week and a half depending on when she comes out looking for food. Make sure to handle then often too. My husband takes her everywhere with us! A healthy snake sheds their entire skin in one peice. Heat and moisture is a big thing too for a snake. Its not wise to use those heating rocks, becuase the snake can get burnt on it. The best thing is a heating lamp. Im going to have to sell her though cause we have come into a financial bind and I want to make sure she eats right. Makes me sad :(

i own a ball python snake and he is great and easy to take care of. you need to be able to buy a glass cage to keep the snake in and make sure its big enough for the little guy to move around easy with still a good amount of extra room. keep a heating pad underneath a certain part of the cage, feed it every two weeks usually. start off w/ pinky mice and gradually upgrade. i would say either get ball pythons or corn snakes. those are the easiest to take care of, dont get too big and are less aggressive. good luck and i hope your snake is awesum!

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Snakes are pretty easy to take care of, just make sure that you handle them often, and that you feed them on time. Make sure when feeding that you have a separate feeding container. This way they do not mistake your hand coming in the cage for food. I always put the pinkies in the container first and make sure to get the scent off my hand before getting our snake out and moving it to the feeder cage. We own a Rosy Boa. It is one of the most kid oriented snakes I have ever seen. Another good kid freindly snake would be a milk snake, they are beautiful, but they move rather fast, where as the Rosy Boa is rather laid back and slow moving. Hope this helps.

Hi, Corn snakes in my opinion are the best to have they are very dosile and friendly, you can get them for reasonable price and they are beautiful, we have a couple and they are great. They love to be handled and they (as far as we have seen) are very friendly. they are great for starter snakes and make wonderful pets. they are not hard to care for with the rite setup and they eat once a week, thier food is very inexpensive and easy, we buy frozen pinkies or fuzzies and never feed them in the tank. that makes them more friendly. because they do not ever associate you reaching in the tank thier tank as feeding, and frozen food (you have to defrost it before feeding them) makes it so they do not get hurt by live rodents. hope this helped and good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to ask.

Great, another snake lover! Welcome to the club! I own a beautiful, 2 year old Ball Python (Python Regius)named Sandy. My suggestion would be to get yourself 2 small tree snakes, the best being the Green Tree Snake variety. My friend, Daniel, owns two of these great snakes. They feed solely on frogs, and these are available in great quantities, over here in Malaysia.The frogs are real cheap, they cost only about USD$0.08 (In our currency, thats Ringgit Malaysia 0.30) As a first time snake owner (presumably), I would seriously recommend these great snakes.

It feels good to hear that there are people who love snakes. I think its a good idea, but you should take proper steps so that others are not disturbed or rather intimidated by the presence of your crawlies in the neighbourhood!

Cannot help you much on this one because I simply do not like snakes at all. That probably comes from living in the country for many years and knowing that they can get anywhere, even into a house uninvited. LOL However morfessa1 I do know that you will need to get a licence to keep snakes in Australia. I am not sure but it will either be from the Department of Agriculture but more likely to be Dept Parks and Wildlife, or whatever the equivalent is in Queensland. :)

Snakes are rather easy to take care of, except for their feeding. It would also depend on where you are located. The climate and humidity is important. Anyway, what breed are you looking at?

Hi Morfessa1 An ideal Australian snake to start off with is the childrens or spotted puthins both are related to each other and look similar. More importantly they are non venomous and easy to handle. I have 2 myself and have had them for a little over 3 years (the female the male I have only had for a few months) The are very striking and can be obtained from breeders or pet stores. In australia you will need to obtain a licence for them through your state which isn't too hard to do and isn't that expensive. I had mine in a fish tank converted to snake habitat. A light/heat lamp at one end and a hide box away from the heat is really important. It is also a good idea NOT to heat them over 30 degrees I know we can get higher temps then that in Oz but we control their temps to this. You would feed an adult childrens one adult mouse every 1-2 weeks. BAby childrens are started off on pinky mice. Childrens only grow to just over a metre and once they get past the snappy terrified baby stage make very tolerant pets that will love to lounge around you. In winter you must not feed them at all and you cool the tanks as well to allow them to hibernate. Even if you keep the tank warm you will find they are slow and sluggish and not interested in eating anyway. Any questions just let me know and I will try and answer them for you.

It's best to get them small, because older snakes sometime have a problem eatinf right away. Try a python they are ok.

The python are good snakes, I have 2! diablo and ashero they are great,but sometimes they want eat for a long period of time, so don't worry about that if you get any.

Oh, wow. I didn't realize you were in Queensland, AU. That is where I hope to move someday, but for now I am in the US. Anyway, the Trans-Pecos Ratsnake I mentioned is from Texas so I am not sure if you would find it in Australia for sale, but it's worth a shot. If you go to a pet store that is of good quality and sells snakes, they should also be able to tell you about the snakes they are selling, and you could verify that info online. I really thinks snakes are a great pet to have, and are pretty easy to care for. Also, be careful getting two snakes. Some snakes can be housed together but some will eat each other, so you might need separate housing for them.

I recently purchased a Trans-Pecos Ratsnake and so far things have been great. She is not nippy even as a hatchling, and has fed well, too. She will get to be about 4-5 feet long though, so that may be too long for your desired range, but so far things have been great with this kind of snake. I recommend feeding your snakes in a separate plastic container to teach them to allow for handling in their habitat, that way they don't associate your hand with food. I made that mistake with my Rosy Boa and she became incapable of being handled after that.

i am afraid of snakes, my god, and i don't want to make it as pet, i have nothing against snake owner, but for me, it's a no,no, i like to see snake from a distance and i don't wanna hold them, i feel like i am going to die,,LOL

Phythons come in all shapes sizes and colours and each have their own needs. Phythons are of course a none venimous snake, which is what you would be looking to own. Phythons are easy to keep as long as you have the right enviroment for them. This means, appropriate heat, water, hiding places and a place where the snake can cool off. Feeding depends on the size of the snake, but good quality mice and rats of various sizes are best. Rats have more protein than mice, so it's good to try and feed your snake rats. Snakes that are kept in captivity are more prone to mites, as this is a captive disease, it's good to check your snake/s for these on a regular basis. One of the ways to tell is if your snake has mites is it will keep tryng to submerge itself in it's water bowl. On the whole though snakes make good pets, do not smell and only need feeding every 1-2 weeks.

i hate snakes as it killed one of my family members and i think we should kill them at sight.