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Anonymous
Hey /an/
I'm thinking about getting a snake. Thing is, I've never had one and I don't know which are good for beginners. So far, I've heard ball pythons do okay for a beginner. Anyone know what others are ideal?
>> Anonymous
>>337824
unless you are feeding hoppers or pinkies of cuarse, which offer littel danger of hurting your snake, though keeping 10 pinkies in your freezer is a lot easier than the alternative
>> Anonymous
>>337832
No, still don't do that. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to wean the snake off of live food once it needs bigger meals? And don't say "warm it up and wiggle it around and it'll be fine," because it is NOT that easy.
>> Anonymous
>>337818
i personally would not recommend corn snakes or hog nosed snakes to the first time owners because they are too active and will often bite (corn snakes) and too shy and will often not eat (hog nosed)

also, frozen prey is better, but you have to heat it so your snake will eat it. thaw the mouse and let hot tap water run over it while its still in the bag for about five mins then i usually dangle it by the tail and my snake strikes
>> Anonymous
>>337835
i switch between frozen and live food all the time depending on availability. no problems.
but i have a corn snake and she'll bite anything that even remotely smells like mouse
>> Anonymous
>>337844
You got lucky then. I've never met a snake that not either too smart or too stupid for that to work on. You really should watch it with that though and get somewhere reliable, even a minor scratch can kill a snake. Slow metabolism also means that they heal a lot slower. I've seen a 13 ft snake die from a minor wound, and that snake was cared for by a herp expert (actual expert, not just "he owns a lot of snakes")
>> Anonymous
>>337848
yeah, its hard though cuz its a small town. for a few weeks when the one pet store that sold feeder mice went out of business i was having to drive to the next town over which only sold lives and was an even bigger problem cuz twice i had lives escape on the 45 min drive back. i had a mouse living in my car for something like three months. then finally the fish store started selling lives in town, but not frozen. now they occasionally will put a live in a ziploc and put it in their own personal freezer but its sort of hit or miss. sometimes they have em, sometimes they dont.
>> Anonymous
>>337871
I'm gonna type this slow for ya
1) Buy 10 live mice
2) Humanely dispatch mice
3) Freeze mice
4) Thaw when needed
5) Forget about obtaining mice for your snake for the next 10 weeks or so
6) ????????
7) PROFIT!!!

Or I guess if you need an excuse to go to the pet store every week...
>> Anonymous
>>337918

1 i like going to the pet store
2 i dont like killing mice
3 i dont live alone and my roomates refuse to let me keep frozen mice in the freezer with the rest of the food.
>> Anonymous
corn snakes all the way! they're sweethearts
>> Shannon R
My sister has a ball python...she hasn't had any trouble with it, although sometimes they get expensive to feed.

I saw an albino python once....quite beautiful...
>> Anonymous
>>338890
smooth move putting your name and email, newfag.
you know i can extract all kinds of info from that email, right?
>> Anonymous
Corn snake.
>> Anonymous
>>337923
Don't get a snake then. Live mice are dangerous for your snake, not the younger ones obviously but will be when they're older. There are ways to kill live mice easily and quickly with no pain to the mice.
>> Anonymous
>>338894
Well now she fucking knows right? Goddamn, did I step into /b/?
>> Anonymous
>>339034
i already HAVE said snake. when i caught her, getting frozen mice wasnt a problem until the local petstore in my town went out of business. anyway, the petstore ive been driving to outside of town seems to be getting most of the leftover business from the now-defunct store so they just started carrying frozen mouse 3 packs this week, and i'm gonna try to sneak them in the freezer.