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Post by insignia100 on Feb 23, 2020 15:01:21 GMT -5
That's awesome. My wife has been thinking about getting a tarantula, how difficult is the care? In all honesty, easier than reptiles unless you get some weird species. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 23, 2020 17:34:50 GMT -5
I love red tail boas and hopefully I can have another one at some point in the future. Right now my only weird pet is a curly hair tarantula.  That's awesome. My wife has been thinking about getting a tarantula, how difficult is the care? About the same as getting another wife! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 23, 2020 17:37:55 GMT -5
I forget. A California King is 6 inches longer and 4 inches narrower than a regular King?
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 23, 2020 17:49:28 GMT -5
I forget. A California King is 6 inches longer and 4 inches narrower than a regular King? I think the main difference is in the coloration and pattern. Both generally get to about 4-5 feet, occasionally 6. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 23, 2020 17:50:39 GMT -5
I forget. A California King is 6 inches longer and 4 inches narrower than a regular King? I think the main difference is in the coloration and pattern. Both generally get to about 4-5 feet, occasionally 6. I put colored sheets on them anyway so I can't see the color. |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 23, 2020 17:54:57 GMT -5
I think the main difference is in the coloration and pattern. Both generally get to about 4-5 feet, occasionally 6. I put colored sheets on them anyway so I can't see the color.  |
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Post by insignia100 on Feb 23, 2020 19:32:43 GMT -5
I forget. A California King is 6 inches longer and 4 inches narrower than a regular King? I think the main difference is in the coloration and pattern. Both generally get to about 4-5 feet, occasionally 6. I think you missed the joke. Think mattresses.  |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 23, 2020 20:18:03 GMT -5
I think the main difference is in the coloration and pattern. Both generally get to about 4-5 feet, occasionally 6. I think you missed the joke. Think mattresses. Yeah, I missed it the first go around, caught it when he threw the colored sheets in there. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 23, 2020 22:26:39 GMT -5
🤪😇🦖🐍🐍🐍
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 6, 2021 21:32:02 GMT -5
Good grief! Snake lovers? I have DEFINITELY made a wrong turn and wound up in the Bad Place. As a little kid on the bayou in Louisiana I would walk out on the pier toward dusk (reluctantly!) and see the water mocassins coiled among the cyprus trunks. I would imagine one at the bottom fo the bed and pull my legs up as high as they could go. And when I moved onto my current place we were overrun with prairie rattlers. Jack was hit three times in two years. I dealt with them in ways that I shall not describe to avoid offending the sensibilities of snake-folk. On the other hand, I like having bull snakes around as they are said to reduce the population of rattlers. Seems to work as we didn’t see a single rattler last summer. I keep my dogs on the Red Rock snake vaccine, just in case. Sure did work with Jack, who would swell up a little but that’s about it. Please don’t tell me how “wrong” I am about snakes ‘cuz I ain’t innerested— but thanks anyway.  |
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Post by puffy on Feb 6, 2021 21:39:10 GMT -5
Some folks like snakes...I sure don't
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Post by username on Feb 6, 2021 21:48:59 GMT -5
We had a red tailed boa when I was kid. But big red got to big for us to keep and we ended up donating her to the local zoo.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 6, 2021 22:17:49 GMT -5
My son has a gopher snake named Slim Whitman...he escaped from the cage spent a cold night in my son's yard and he seemed appreciative when I found him.  |
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 6, 2021 22:28:33 GMT -5
Don't much care for snakes but after i kill it you are welcome to watch wiggle for hours and tell me what it used to be. I have killed six foot corals, copper heads, water moccasins, and several types of rattle snakes. I keep a hoe in the bed of my truck and 410 snake charmer close at hand. Heck I even killed three deadly snakes of the sand box in the middle east thanks to my uncle Sam. I am ok with lizards. You can tell I am a country boy as I walk looking at the ground so I do not get bit.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 6, 2021 22:33:54 GMT -5
In a former life I had a 4 foot gator named Wally gator...meaner than piss, and always wanted a finger snack.
As much of a pain a dog can be, they are truly man's best friend.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 6, 2021 23:03:02 GMT -5
Never had a pet snake. My son went directly to a Savanah monitor that also liked fingers. Last I saw him he was in a glass cage at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. He even got his name on the the display. Smaug. We like snakes OK. My wife delivers them to the nearest patch of woods. We catch all kinds of lizards and play with them for a few minutes and release them. My wife and I have a picture somewhere of us with matching anole earrings. 😜🤠 🦎
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Post by terrapinflyer on Feb 6, 2021 23:36:18 GMT -5
AWESOME!! I have and breed Kenyan Sand boas Very cool. KSB and Short-Tailed Python are the two other species I would love to own some day. Gotta be soon though. I'm already closing in on 40, and I don't want my snakes outliving me, the idea of a 20-30 year old snake having to change owners because I kicked the bucket doesn't sit well with me. Yeah, I was about that age when we had that conversation about welcoming an African Gray Parrot into the family. We have had Fenway ten or eleven years now. I have kept lizards and turtles, but no snakes. I sure saw some big ones working with a veterinarian who saw exotics. They often make good pets. She didn't treat any "hot" species, though. I'm glad of that! |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 7, 2021 0:41:04 GMT -5
Very cool. KSB and Short-Tailed Python are the two other species I would love to own some day. Gotta be soon though. I'm already closing in on 40, and I don't want my snakes outliving me, the idea of a 20-30 year old snake having to change owners because I kicked the bucket doesn't sit well with me. Yeah, I was about that age when we had that conversation about welcoming an African Gray Parrot into the family. We have had Fenway ten or eleven years now. I have kept lizards and turtles, but no snakes. I sure saw some big ones working with a veterinarian who saw exotics. They often make good pets. She didn't treat any "hot" species, though. I'm glad of that! I won't mess with hot, kids (and my own life) take priority. These guys are are fun, and help me overcome a fear from childhood. |
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Post by CrustyCat on Feb 7, 2021 3:04:33 GMT -5
My son has a gopher snake named Slim Whitman...he escaped from the cage spent a cold night in my son's yard and he seemed appreciative when I found him. Looks like it's just trying to warm up |
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Post by toshtego on Feb 7, 2021 10:54:12 GMT -5
We do not have many here. I guess the altitude and cooler climate... historically.
Gopher/Bull snakes always welcome. Ditto the NM Gartersnake.
The Prairie Rattlesnakes I have encountered have been mostly docile. I keep a sharp eye out for them while on irrigation ditch duties. We do not get Diamondbacks or the other bad arse vipers here like they have in the lower elevations of NM.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 7, 2021 14:08:57 GMT -5
We do not have many here. I guess the altitude and cooler climate... historically. Gopher/Bull snakes always welcome. Ditto the NM Gartersnake. The Prairie Rattlesnakes I have encountered have been mostly docile. I keep a sharp eye out for them while on irrigation ditch duties. We do not get Diamondbacks or the other bad arse vipers here like they have in the lower elevations of NM. Only prairie rattlers her, but some are VERY aggressive. When I lived further up-country in the Sandhills no rattler at all. Nothing to burrow in and no prairie dogs. Bull snakes, though, and some really big ones. Emma, my former GSP could not be called off a snake. She hated ‘em and anything that slithered was fair game for her. Jack watches ‘em but won’t attack one. Don’t know about Eli yet, but he’s also on the vaccine, just in case. |
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Post by puffy on Feb 7, 2021 14:17:16 GMT -5
Copper Heads in my neck of the woods.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2021 14:30:16 GMT -5
We've only seen one black racer here, before we moved in. If we had snakes, we would probably not have gophers.
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Post by rdpipes on Feb 8, 2021 18:39:03 GMT -5
Years ago I had a 10 foot Burmese Python, pretty gentle but, she had the run of the house being she was so big that she would break out of her tank when she wanted to. After about a year or two I finally gave her away to a breeder because she was just too big to keep around my daughter who was only about 8 or 9 at the time. It certainly could take her down without a struggle in a blink of an eye, not to mention me too. Even being as gentle as she was I sure wasn't going to trust she might decide not to be at some point.
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Post by instymp on Feb 8, 2021 19:23:41 GMT -5
I had a friend that kept a diamond back in a 55 gal. aquarium tank with a piece of plywood on top for a "Coffee Table" in his living room, fed it for a long time until the last time. My friend died.
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Post by jay on Feb 8, 2021 19:52:26 GMT -5
I just follow that old mountain man rule, "Never trade for anything that eats."
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Post by puffy on Feb 8, 2021 21:30:02 GMT -5
I read today that a zoo in Florida has a 7 foot long 20 pound rattler..I hope it stays down there.
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 9, 2021 13:55:20 GMT -5
I had a friend that kept a diamond back in a 55 gal. aquarium tank with a piece of plywood on top for a "Coffee Table" in his living room, fed it for a long time until the last time. My friend died. Ouch. |
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 9, 2021 13:57:10 GMT -5
For what it's worth gents, I keep them in 24x48x12 PVC enclosures with doors that have 3 latches each. The only escape is the one where I make a serious mistake.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 9, 2021 14:30:38 GMT -5
Years ago I had a 10 foot Burmese Python, pretty gentle but, she had the run of the house being she was so big that she would break out of her tank when she wanted to. After about a year or two I finally gave her away to a breeder because she was just too big to keep around my daughter who was only about 8 or 9 at the time. It certainly could take her down without a struggle in a blink of an eye, not to mention me too. Even being as gentle as she was I sure wasn't going to trust she might decide not to be at some point. Inconceivable! |
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