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Treating a Snake Bite

January 11th 2010 21:49
Whether you're concerned that your pet snake will bite you or you're just doing to research to make sure that you know how to handle the situation, it's always a good thing to know what to do. First off, even if you're snake is non-venomous, you don't want to play around and say it's ok to get bit. Those people who are not scared of getting bit by their pet snakes are more likely to have less fear of any snake, as sub-consciously they're just not thinking about it.

Any snake can and will bite under the right circumstances, so just because you've got a non-venomous, docile temperament snake, that doesn't mean you won't ever get bit.


Ball pythons are considered one of the most docile pet snakes, and mine is pretty docile, but he's bitten me. I have heard of several cases where a pet ball python bit the owner. Sometimes it's accident. Sometimes it's food and hunger. No matter what the case is, if you're going to have a pet snake, you need to make sure that you know proper treatment and prevention to snake bites.




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Housing Multiple Snakes

December 25th 2009 13:23
Many people don't realize how important it is to keep snakes housed individually. Even those snakes who aren't prone to cannibalism, can kill another snake. The link below actually shows pictures of one ball python who ate another one, and the species is one of the more docile species.

You don't want to put it past snakes because if they're hungry enough, stressed, or improperly kept, it is highly possible that one will eat another. But in some cases, the enclosure could be perfect and cannibalism still occur. There's really no way to determine which snake may eat its cagemate or when.


The best thing to do when housing snakes, is to just house them all in their own individual cage. You don't want to risk a pet's life.

Housing More than One Snake Per Cage

Another thing to consider is if you have different species, not only do you have to worry about one eating the other, but you have to worry about being able to supply the optimum enclosure for both species. It's very hard to do. Even if there's just a slight difference, you still have to worry if that slight difference is going to cause any problems for one species or the other.

You'll never be able to 100 percent provide proper enclosure temperatures, humidity, etc for two different species. Even with corn snakes and king snakes, who have similar requirements. Plus with those two species, you'll run into high risk of cannibalism.

It's just not a good idea to house more than one snake in an enclosure.



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Best Beginner Snakes as Pets

December 21st 2009 15:55
When you're thinking about a pet snake, you want to make sure that you keep in mind your experience with snakes. You don't want to just jump into keeping snakes and purchase a Burmese python or even a red tail boa. They're just big snakes. They don't make the best pets if you're not experienced with big snakes.

There are many snakes that are great for beginners, so don't think that you're limited to one or two snake species and just a few colors, but in reality you still have many options that you can choose from.

Ball pythons are great and generally the first option, but they can have feeding issues, which isn't necessarily the best option if you're not willing to deal with a snake who may not eat up to and sometimes over 6 months just because you upgraded the enclosure or the temperatures dropped a little before you could adjust it.

King snakes, corn snakes, milk snakes, house snake, and garter snakes are good options. All are relatively small and easy eaters. The rosy boa and sand boa are newer in the pet market, and are not always found in pet stores but are more commonly found from breeders.




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Disadvantage of Killing Wild Snakes

May 9th 2009 15:35


Not many people like snakes, especially wild snakes in their yard and garden. It can really be a surprise to walk outside, try to plant a few flowers and a black kingsnake come creeping out from behind a bush. It's just not pleasant, but what you don't want to do is take your shovel or gardening tool and chop off his head. For one, it's not nice, and for two, that kingsnake is helping to keep down your pests as well as other snakes.

Not all wild snakes are bad, which is why you shouldn't kill the ones that you find in your yard. In most areas, the snakes that you'll find slithering around are going to be non-venomous, and you don't want to kill those. Now, if you spot a venomous one, by all means, for the safety of yourself, your family, friends, and pets, kill it or trap it and have animal control come pick it up. Just be safe about it because you don't want to get bit.

As for wild colubrids and other non-venomous, cannibalistic snakes, you'll find that by leaving them slither around your yard and neighborhood, they'll help keep down the population of rodents and snakes.

In some areas, that have native colubrids and venomous snakes, the colubrids (milksnakes, cornsnakes, kingsnakes, rat snakes will keep the population of venomous snakes down.

Remember that in the United States there are over 250 species and subspecies of wild and native snakes, but there are only four that are venous.

* Copperhead
* Coral snake
* Rattlesnake
* Water moccasin

Also, remember that just because a snake rattles its tail, that doesn't mean that it's venomous. The king, milk, and rat snake, will all rattle their tails in dry leaves to scare off potential predators, but all three are non-venomous colubrids.



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Breeding Corn Snakes

September 27th 2008 18:19
Corn snakes are probably one of the more popular pet snakes, besides ball pythons and other colubrids. They are a relatively small snake that is also one of the better beginner pet snake. Corn snakes are illegal in some states, such as Georgia, so you want to make sure that you check your state laws before you get a pet corn snake, much less before you decide if you want to breed them.

But, if you've already decided that you want to breed your corn snakes, you want to make sure tat you ahve all the right tools and essentials to get started.

You want to make sure that you have the incubator, incubation medium, and proper housing for hatchlings. Not to mention you want to make sre that you have the proper time, energy, and money to breed corn snakes. You probably won't get as much money as you may think.

The reptile market is not a friendly one. It is very variable and the prices drop all the time.

But, anyway...

When breeding corn snakes, you want to make sure that both snakes are in peak health condition. The last thing you want to do is attempt to breed snakes that are ill. The breeding process will do nothing more than enhance the illness.

Make sure that you have everything set up before hand, and make sure that you are prepared in general. You always want to keep an eye out for the reptile's safety.

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Common Health Problems for Pet Snakes

September 12th 2008 00:16


Although snakes are typically pretty healthy pets, especially if you purchase them from reputable breeders and are captive bred and born, they still have common health problems, just like any other pet


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Caring for Ball Pythons

July 2nd 2008 15:30
Ball pythons are one of the best beginner snakes that you can bring home, but even still you want to make sure that you know and understand how to properly care for them. These guys can live 20 to 30 years, which is a pretty good bit of time when compared to the average dog.

So before you get your ball python, you want to make sure that you know how to properly care for it. You want to make sure that you're ready for an aquarium that's at least 3 feet long, and for feeding medium to large sized rats


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