Yeah, so basically, I want to buy a snake BUT it will be my first snake, and after heavy negotiations with mom, I agreed that it will not be a corn snake. Money is not an issue in terms of the vivarium/equipment etc, but i don't want to spend more than 300ish on the snake itself... The snake also cannot be bigger than say 5-6 feet wen its old. To sum up it has to:
-not be a corn
-not longer than 6feet
-relatively easy to care for
-good looking (wow factor XD)
so i'm thinking ball python?
Please help!

Royals are great but they can be very fussy feeders so IMO not a good starter snake, maybe king,milk snake ??

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been told rosy boas are good first snakes but not to sure, my first was a rat snake

hang on there u havnt conidered teh good points f corns. they are cheap 2 buy (from about £15 from private sellers) and although some can get to 6 foot i dont think its really common. other snakes apart from corns, even tho they are a perfect starter snake, are milks which some only get to 3/4 foot like mine ( a sinaloan milksnake). also i dont think garter snakes get very big but they are very quick. as a first snake i duno if a python is a good idea, but i suppose it differs for people. Corns are jsut generally easy to care for, are cheap and come in 100s of colours.

but thats just my personal opinion

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Decent size & pretty easy i'll say king..Royal's can be picky when little

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wow thx for all the info... BUT my mom says absolute NO to corns - she says theyre too thin nd skinny - weird IMO, well see her face wen i get a boa xD... Umm could you please give me full names of the snakes? Soz, but im kinda new to snakes and dnt wanna end up buying the wrong snake =] Aaa, and also does any1 know where i can get snakes if im in london? =/ Oh, and would u recommend buying a baby and if so then how old?

i have to agree about corns def a perfect starter! asides from them i would say a king snake too, i have just brought home a baby royal after having 6 corns and im so panicky she refused her last feed and is def a lot more difficult then the easy going, eat what their offered and love handling personalitys of corns!

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1.0 06 100% het albino royal - Jin
0.1 08 surinam x common boa - blossom
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1.0 08 tangerine hypo leo - Spirit
looking for a female albino royal!!

And a king snake is a what exactly? a python, a boa or?

Garters would be perfect for you ... here's a link Photographic Library - Caresheets
scroll down and you'll get lots of lovely pictures.

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King snakes
Milk snakes

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