What reptile to get?

Hellrazer

At the minute Im down to 2 corns (1 is MIA in the house somewhere) and 1 Beardie.
Royal python died last November and last week I lost my Sudanese plated lizard so Im getting "empty cage syndrome"

Toying with the idea of a Hog Island Boa(Ben had one last week)or maybe a Cali King---just cant make my mind up.

Would really love to convert the shed/garage converted to a herp room but just havent got the time (or the money) to carry it out yet and my wife wouldnt be too impressed (Not with one missing at the minute)

luckat

All those posts and nobody's yet said "My ex"...

Vinnie K

Hellrazer wrote: »

At the minute Im down to 2 corns (1 is MIA in the house somewhere) and 1 Beardie.
Royal python died last November and last week I lost my Sudanese plated lizard so Im getting "empty cage syndrome"

Toying with the idea of a Hog Island Boa(Ben had one last week)or maybe a Cali King---just cant make my mind up.

Would really love to convert the shed/garage converted to a herp room but just havent got the time (or the money) to carry it out yet and my wife wouldnt be too impressed (Not with one missing at the minute)

Sorry to hear about the loses dude. Ya i was actually just talking to Ben a few days ago about getting me a hog island or crawl cay but im just gonna wait till i get it in march. Try this for the missing corn, suppose to be good, http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/snakes/73850-lost-snake-wanna-know-how.html

Demonique

Hellrazer wrote: »

Youre looking athe scond page which are all "myths"--The first page are documented cases.

No, they're not. The first four pics are fake

Quoted from the site:

The four pictures below allegedly document a recent incident of a snake eating a person. The accompanying stories vary as to victim (local child, camper, or oil rig crew member) and location (South America with the snake an anaconda, Borneo, and Singapore). The snake is a reticulated python.

Notice the words allegedly and the phrase vary as to victim and location. These pics have been used in various stories about man eating snakes.

Also another quote regarding the first two pictures:

The lump appears to be of a stocky animal such as a pig rather than of a person


As regards the pictures of the guy sticking out of the snake:

The person’s body has very little mucus on it for having been inside a snake. Those who keep snakes well know how slimy food items get, especially when a snake regurgitates

It’s difficult to ascertain where his arms are; one of them should be lying right along his side, since they would have to fold that way during the snake’s feeding. His arms may be extending up into the snake to open a path for his head and chest.

The upper torso appears to be within a bag inside the snake. The python’s stomach and/or intestine also seem to have disappeared

Most herpers suspect that these were staged photographs, though I have to give the man credit for crawling that far into the snake.

In any event, no news service has ever carried a story relating to these photographs … and it would have made a great story.

Their fakes, well at least the two with the guy inside the snake are, the first two are of a retic that's after swallowing a large animal. Why couldnt they just have left it alone to digest its meal in peace? But no, they had to capture it and annoy it just like that poor anaconda who was forced to regurgitate its tapir dinner



Here's another dumb urban legend regarding snakes:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/ballpit.asp