My snake room is 12' X 12'. Mambas get 8'. Thay are extremely fast, aggressive, and toxic.

I don't have the space to safely work with one.

Most of my snakes max out at 3' and they are docile.

8' long, fast, AND toxic? @#$%Q$%! Uh, yeah, don't get a mamba.

In about 30 minutes the movie my daughter is watching will be over. I'll show her this and you will be her new hero. I've had a few snakes over the years as pets. She wants one so bad she doesn't know what to do. Momma put her foot down and said NO. I've been hoping to catch a local wild snake so she can keep it in a cage outside for a few days. No luck so far. Non venomous of course. Thanks for sharing.

Well, to each his own. But my two cents is that if you keep messing around with them creatures, it's not if you will get bit, it's when... I also think that it's kind of cruel to keep animals like that in cages when they are natural predators in the wild. Same as I think about people and zoos keeping lions and tigers in a cage big enough to just walk in circles all day. No offense, just my opinion.

In the wild, they are a food source to larger predators. They eat when the opportunity arise, have to tolerate rough weather conditions, and the threat of people killing them just for being snakes.

Mine get fed weekly, have optimum living conditions, and no worries about getting eatin.

Poor things, they really are mistreated.

well, hopefully you will never have to deal with one biting one of your loved ones. I have and it's not fun.

great info & thoughts

Very cool collection of snakes. I've watched alot of Animal Planet, Discovery, and Nat Geo and I don't think I've seen some of the snakes you have pictures of on here, except for the cobras and sand vipers. Thanks for sharing and be careful.

Thank you.

Speaking of snake ID....

I just saw this, I bet I wake up around 2-3am fighting one of the bastages off me in a cray a dream now

is he still with us

I hope so. I want some updates

Blast from the past