Halloween Trick or Treat?

[RZL36]

Oh Chinese Copperheads. Lovely snakes. Rot the flesh off the bone.

I agree, elapids are just too quick and aggressive for the most part. Vipers love to surprise you though.

[adamanteus]

Oh Chinese Copperheads.

You mean Calloselasma? we call them Malayan Pit Vipers over here. Just regional nomenclature variations I guess. I have kept (and bred) them before. They are dangerous but very easy to deal with. Interestingly, an egg layer, even though they are classified as part of the Agkistrodon complex.

[Stefan-A]

...and then moves out? I know if my kids are anything like me (don't have any), they are gonna be way too curious for me to keep hots. I want move out of state and build a barn so I can keep some before the child bug bites. I really don't want anything too serious, but I would like to keep all of the agkistrodon complex (from cantils to copperheads).

Agkistrodon and Vipera for me.

[anji1971]

I think I'll just stick with garters, if it's alright with everyone............... call me crazy, but I just don't relish the idea of a pet that can kill me if I startle it!!!

[Stefan-A]

I think I'll just stick with garters, if it's alright with everyone............... call me crazy, but I just don't relish the idea of a pet that can kill me if I startle it!!!

Yeah, I'm certainly not going to give up keeping garters if I ever start keeping real venomous snakes.

Fortunately, you know to stay away from the pointy end of a venomous snake.

[anji1971]

Well I know to stay away from the wrong end, but it's the speed at which that end can find you that worries me!! Have any of you guys ever been bitten????????

[adamanteus]

No...you meant Deinagkistrodon! I never heard it called that before. Sharp Nosed Viper or Hundred Pacer, we would call it.

[RZL36]

Yeah, sometimes snorkel-nosed viper too. In the US they are Chinese Copperheads, b/c they look like our coppers.

[adamanteus]

Yeah, I see the similarity to Copperheads. I believe there's some place in Germany that breed them in large numbers, to produce venom for the medical industry.

[adamanteus]

No, not me. Well, not by a venomous snake anyway. Loads of Garter bites though!