The month is set...

[Daz_of_hudds]

Hi, I have decided to get my first snake in september 2008, lol I no its ages but what would everyone recomend? The pet shop locally has some beautiful corn snakes?

What about prices and equipment? I dont want to be left in the water like with my leo

Daz

p.s. Will be saving this forum so information will be useful

[Hobgoblin]

How about getting a nice normal cornsnake ...they are not very expensive and lots grow up looking stunnning....I have alot of respect for the normal classic corns....and theres alot a around with interesting hets (recessive genes) for future breeding projects.....

[essexchondro]

Good for you for setting a date far enough in the future for you to do plenty of research beforehand. Forget about pet shops, you've got plenty of time to source a good breeder and buy direct from them.

cheers

Stuart

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Daz_of_hudds

Hi, I have decided to get my first snake in september 2008,

£50 says you don't last until then

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by reticulatus

£50 says you don't last until then

While I agree with Stuart in congratulating you for taking time to research the animal first... I do have to +1 this... I give you til March 08 LMAO

[Daz_of_hudds]

Originally Posted by reticulatus

£50 says you don't last until then

Nah, I need to wait till after summer to go back to uni and move into a house, my mum hates snakes... lol, the only way I can get a snake before is too get rid of my leo and that aint happening

Daz

[eeji]

you can't go wrong with a corn snake

[Daz_of_hudds]

Originally Posted by eeji

you can't go wrong with a corn snake

The shiny black one in your avarta look awsome, what type of corn is that?

Daz

[Ssthisto]

The shiny black one in Ian's signature file looks like a Black Rat Snake - Pantherophis obsoleta - and probably isn't a corn snake at all Likewise, the solid white one is a leucistic rat snake (I'm guessing Texas - a different subspecies of P. obsoleta) ...

[eeji]

Both the snakes in my siggy are the 'Holy Grail' of corns, what most corn breeders would kill for to produce first - the white one with blue eyes is the Leucistic Corn, and the black one is the Melanistic Corn....

Neither have been discovered yet, It symbolises a bright future for reptile keeping, whereas the mechanical snake in the middle represents a dismal future - Fate lies in our own hands

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

The shiny black one in Ian's signature file looks like a Black Rat Snake - Pantherophis obsoleta - and probably isn't a corn snake at all Likewise, the solid white one is a leucistic rat snake (I'm guessing Texas - a different subspecies of P. obsoleta) ...

They're both corns......
lucy = photoshopped blizzard
melanistic = photoshopped anery
i cheated!