I'm not.......................

[loulou]

............a boa or python or colubrid can you guess what I am ;D

[ChamZilla]

mmm I dunno I guess colubrid.............. Probably wrong but its a guess

[natascha]

No clue but its stunning looking whatever it is!!

[loulou]

heres a clue......... i live in rice paddys and very wet environments

[Patrick Kubeja]

I want to Say Sand Boa but I know that isn't Right!

Dang You got me on this one!

[Denise]

Is it a rat snake?
I really don't know,it's just a guess!! He is nice looking though!

[loulou]

Nope not a rosy or a Rat snake I am afraid .......... Ok heres another clue the iridescence on my scales cant be beaten by no other not even the rainbow boa

[0ooAshleyoo0]

it looks alot to me like the Sunbeam Snake.. thats probably my best guess! but they arent commonly kept as pets beacuase they can die really easily, but its still my guess..
** is it your pet? or just a nice picture?

[loulou]

And the winner is...................... Ashley

Yep she is one of my pets I have 4 females and one male, all doing well now the main reason they do not do well in captivity is because little is known about them, they naturally live in a very wet climate and need 80-100% humidity, they are also burrowers (i think that might be why you thought SB patrick) if you notice the nose its a typical burrowing snake shovel shape and their eyes have adapted over years to be very very small. They are very shy snakes and seldom come above ground, mine live in a very thick layer of wet spagnum moss and live very happily this way.

As said before they do not always survive well in captivity but thats because they are miss understood, they get easily stressed if not left to themselves with burrows and MUST have the high humidity, if they lack this humidity they can get some very nasty blisters (similar to bisters normal snakes get when humidity is too high) keepers used to mistaken this for a too wet environment and they made there enclosures drier making the blisters worse and stressing out the snake often resulting in death. what people should do if they see a sunbeam with these blisters is make sure the humidity is correct and leave well alone except for antibiotics supplied by the vet, this normally results in a nice healthy sunbeam.

two of ours arrived at our house with bad blisters and a maggot infestation in the "bad" skin we had to pick out the maggots daily (until all were gone) and supply baytril daily as well and obviously put them straight into tubs with high humidity and sterile burowing substrate, they are now doing really well and are eating with us i am happy to say.

[0ooAshleyoo0]

THATS AWESOME! very beautiful! thats a very interesting species to have, it must be neat! i am a huge snake lover and have had them as pets since i can remember, ive never had one that ive bought before until just a few months ago when me and my boyfriend purchased a columbian redtail together. Hes still really small, i cant wait till he grows. Ive had everything from the common garter snake to some wierd black snake that i never could identify, it wasnt native to my area, it must have gotten here by mistake. I havent had a wild caught one in a few years, but i used to find snakes that were hurt and help them out and then let them go.

one time( when i was really young) i found these two boys beating up a HUGE female garter snake, 3.5 to 4 feet long. they had ripped open her stomach and there were baby snake sacks all over, she was still acting alive and fine, but i knew she woud die, along with her babies if not helped. i was so young, i didnt actually know what to do, but i put her guts back in and closed up the wound with fine string and put duct tape over it i applied neosporin to it every other day . none of her babies lived, but she DID! my parents were amazed. i had her eating toads, crickets and worms and in about 2 months i let her go. i never could get the homemade stitches out, but after taking the tape off, the skin had healed around it and she was fine. even after all that abuse, she never bit me.. hissed a few times but never bit. i dont know if i saved her life, but i remember letting her go was the first time i realized i wanted to help animals. i was so happy.. im still amazed at what i did for her.

* sorry, i just wanted to gloat my hero story.. heh

how did you get your sunbeams? im guessing bad breeder..?( if they were maggot infested)

[deckard1313]

wow, cool and stunning snake you got there!!!!

[loulou]

wow Ashley thats cool what you did and its great that the garter survived (((((((Ashley))))))

I wish we had such a wide variety of wild snakes over here but I am lucky to have seen a few adders and some snad lizards here as well as alot of slow worms.

And the supplier I got these from is very good I just think he missunderstood the requirements of these animals and kept them wrong himself resulting in what they arrived to us like but all of the other animals I have ever had from him have been 100% so I dont blame him at all, its one of those things, it happens to alot of people get some bad adivce follow it and then find out the mistake sometimes too late sometimes you are lucky, the guy now has a good caresheet for these animals and did feel really awful and I know if he ever gets anymore they will be well looked after very very well and correctly.

[loulou]

Oh and sunbeams are not colubrid or boa or python they are Xenopeltis in the family of Xenopeltidae, there are only two snakes in this family

[0ooAshleyoo0]

they are very interesting snakes. not like any other et snake. iv enver hear dof anyone else ever having any, thats pretty neat

[loulou]

Theres only a handful of people in the UK that I have found so far that have these snakes and only two people I have found so far that have bred them in the Uk but I am always on the lookout for more its a great way of learning more about them.