Keeping Reptiles

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Originally Posted by kk.

I know! my friend had one and i didnt want to hold or touch it but when i did, its kinda like silk from what i remember. Its really quite a strange feeling because you build up all this tension and for it to feel weird and it doesnt :P

His snake was quite thin and orange, if that helps to identifying it lol. it did wrap its self around your arm too! was well scary one time, he just randomly put it on my neck and it went around it and im so used to like films with snakes in choking people that i just disliked it!!

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Yeah they tend to be very smooth and one could argue silky. Most people expect a slimy feel because they have a shine, but it's not at all.

As per your friend it sounds like elaphe guttata (corn snake). Was it patterned orange? Or was it literally orange all over? I say a corn snake because they are one of the most commonly kept snake in the UK and depending on the colour morph (there are LOADS) they often have an orange / red appearance.

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Originally Posted by Sergio

Omg I'd love to see a rabbit or mouse own a cobra!!!! :D Gotta be live cos they're not scavengers init. I like how they feel as well. I've only held this kid's snakes from my old street, I think they were corn snakes? (They were orange and not huge).

And I once had a pic taken of me holding this HYOWGEEEE albino thing. I dunno what it was but it was apparently the same weight as me at the time... I was like 'OK can you take it off me now please' lol :P

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Again I'd say it does sound like elaphe guttata.

The albino snake you held is most probably an albino python molurus bivittatus - commonly known as a Burmese Python. They can grow to around 12ft, sometimes more. The one we have in the shop is 11ft. They are one of my favourite snakes in terms of appearance. We have baby ones of those too :D. That's one of the snakes we feed rabbits lol.

Should look like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...se_pythons.jpg

That was probably it :D

thats it! a corn snake! woo. i can sleep tonight now :) x

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Originally Posted by kk.

thats it! a corn snake! woo. i can sleep tonight now :) x

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Some of them look good but they bore me. It's generally corn snakes we feed to the Cobra :$

Some pictures of reptiles from the shop:

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7303815_n.jpg

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This is one of the ophiophagus hannah (King Cobras) at the shop in the venomous room (which has restricted public access, but you can go and see if you arrange it - for those of you who live in Bristol!). Probably one of my favourite snakes of all time, they look incredibly impressive, I love them. Never handled one myself though, Chris does though.

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._8046987_n.jpg

This is aeluroscalabotes felinus - cat gecko. I think it looks cool, don't know much about them though!

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._2092918_n.jpg

This is pogona bitticeps or Bearded Dragon. These are commonly kept as pets. There are loads of baby ones at the shop at the moment. Super, super cute :D.

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This is physignathus cocincinus (Chinese Water Dragon). Just think it's a well cool looking lizard and again, are regularly kept as pets.


Those are just a few of the pictures there are a hundred or so on his Facebook, but those are the only ones I can easily identify. It is only my new hobby after all... but yeah, those are a few of the things kept at the shop!

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Originally Posted by Garion

Lol could never keep our Ali G at the flat :(. I'll try take some pics of him when I go to the shop tomorrow though innit.

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why are you so obsessed with reptiles atm LOL omg cobras what the hell garion are you trying to give me nightmares????

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Originally Posted by Leaahh.

why are you so obsessed with reptiles atm LOL omg cobras what the hell garion are you trying to give me nightmares????

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I dunno Leah my lovely! I wasn't that interested in them until I met Chris and seeing as he manages reptile shops and there are lots of reptiles here I've got well into them. They are my new hobby

kwl beenz. pic of you on alligator's back tbh :lol:

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Originally Posted by Sergio

kwl beenz. pic of you on alligator's back tbh :lol:

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Lol he's not that big :P

k then pic of him on your back :D:D

I was gonna get a lizard or somet but then i thought nah there boring so i got a cat