Taiwan Beauty Snake

[piranhaking]

Thanks for the great response. I have only had very little experience with large snakes (anything larger than a 40 some inch ball). I have never had a snake other than a young corn try to really squeeze me, so I have no way of knowing what kind of squeeze they are really capable of. Seems like we always have things to learn.

[MedusasOwl]

Oh yeah, no worries at all!

Jack has it covered beautifully, but I just thought I'd add that I could never keep huge boids partially because of back problems, but I can tangle with even my tempermental male beauty no prob and he's somewhere around possibly over 8ft. Both of my adults are only around 3 pounds too at their last vet check up. My little elderly kitty weighs more! They're long but slender, very impressive gorgeous snakes.

[jjspirko]

I concur with Medusa on the weight issue the largest asian rat snake I have ever actually seen and handled was a massive Male blue beauty that was over 11 feet (may be a record) his girth was about like that of a typical 16oz water bottle at his biggest. He was friendly as all get out to boot! His weight could not have been more then 6-8 pounds and that again was the biggest beauty I have ever seen or heard of from a reliable source for that matter.

Compair this to the average weight of a male red tail mature boa of 35-40 pounds and you get a clear picture of why a 8-10 foot beauty is a lot easier to manage then a boa or python of a similar length.

By the way Tai, my young male who was born in June and I bought at the Bob Clark show in August is in the blue again and about to shed for the FOURTH time since I bought him. Talk about growth,

[MedusasOwl]

Ooh, thanks for the reminder to add reference to that 11 footer on my caresheet! I heard about that bad boy and even though it's uncommon for them to get that long, best to warn folks that it's at least possible.