A place for the first time snake keeper to the seasoned vet. Snake education, keeping tips and some other collection videos when I travel! My focus will be on showing this hobby in a proper light. I want people to get to know snakes as a whole and as individuals. If you’re looking for negative content, and things that damage the ability to work with the animals we love, you won’t find it here! I love to share my successes and failures equally so that people don’t have to make the same mistakes I’ve made over the years. I’ve spent the last nearly two decades working with these animals everyday and you never stop learning. Subscribe and I think you’ll find this content different, helpful and interesting, plus some great snake eye candy! Always appreciate feedback, thanks for stopping by! For even more in depth and personal information check out the membership section as well!
@@Loki_FPV666 thank you! Unfortunately your words have rung very true. After about a 6+ month battle with an unknown illness I lost her some time ago. Went back and forth to the vet, but she didn’t test positive for anything and didn’t respond to what we did try with both treating symptoms and possible causes. It was a hard loss and one that pushed my decision forward to quit working with snakes. That and the economy and not being able to feed myself let alone them. Most of my blood collection was T+ albino. It was certainly my favorite!
@danmaganosnakes God I'm glad you made this video. Thank you! I just took on a very large Borneo Shorttail from someone - he's huge. And I am really struggling in taking him out. I do have a Ball Python I've had for around 1.5 years and have been pretty chill...but this guy scares me. I took him out and he was quite aggressive. Any additional ideas beyond what you shared?
@@phoenixamara give him some time to adjust first and foremost. Adults can take months to adjust to a new place. Also make sure his setup is one that will make him comfortable. Been a while since I made content so I don’t recall everything gone over, but there are several videos on the channel that should offer info that can be helpful. Short tails are the main focus of most things here.
Quick question from my own understanding is that both short tails and blood pythons are slightly in length smaller than diamonds , olives , scrubs , carpets , white lipped pythons?
In most cases this would be true, yes. Depends on the locality carpet and the genetics of the animal. Just like you can have people that are 4’10” and 6’10” snakes can vary a lot within a species by their genetic codes too. Then also how the animal is raised/kept and other factors can also affect its growth rate and potential.
@@Germaineparham142 turned out to be a him, and he ate a mix of birds and rodents. Never did rabbits with him but no doubt he would have eaten it. He passed away back in April of 2023. When I got him in 2018 I believe it was he was older but unknown age. Based on his size and especially head size I’d wager when I got him he was at least late teens, but given the previous owners lack of knowledge about the animal I can only speculate that. That said I’ve never seen an example with a larger more robust head than he had- so I’m guessing he may have been well into his 20s when he passed.
@@Germaineparham142 just from a private person who got him from someone who got him from someone kind of deal. And honestly well over 7. Possibly pushing 8’. Never actually measured him. But before he started getting older and losing some mass, he was a big, big boy. My olive female was smaller than him and she was about 7.5 I believe. Their cages were stacked so I saw them side by side a lot and both their cages were 6’.
Wow I'm surprised, cus ya Olive is huge so yes I guess cus it's the way the white lipped is position coil you can't tell which is larger cus the olive you shown was more visible shown. So was the white lipped sick that's how it died? At some point the python prolly was a wild caught cus you can tell it's not tame .
And I thought scrub and Olive pythons was larger as adults than white lipped and carpets .Also is it natural for the snake that live that long start to deteriorating that's how it losed its body Mass ?
@@KantiKane while I appreciate the algorithm boost of your comments and how they help out- your comment doesn’t seem like you have much experience with this species so why would I take a high stress species and an animal in its 20s and send it to another home and person to adjust to and one that doesn’t understand them?
@@KantiKane she turned out to be a he, and yes- people keep snakes much too heavy in captivity. They are over fed and under stimulated leading to health complications you can see and many you can not. Especially given people feed higher fat content diet and more rodent heavy diets than many of these animals would naturally eat and are designed to handle. I have never and would never abuse my animals in that manner.
@@DanMaganoSnakes nah dude thats not an overweight snake thats an underweight snake. ive only ever seen one obese snake my entire life it never happens
Since may I’ve gotten 5 really fancy blood pythons to keep and pair up. Im literally gonna make 6000 dollar morphs with these snakes figured I’ll keep most of them. I’m very lucky to have these snakes it wouldn’t have been possible if the market didn’t go down. Dan, you are one of my inspirations sad to see you go.
@@JK-vy8vh hopefully they do well for you and the market comes back. But I think it’s going to be some time given what’s going on in the economy. This next election may help set things right or make them even worse, but only time will tell!
@@DanMaganoSnakes bro I hope you didn’t sell all your collection and that you’re doing better now? Yeah bro their genetics are insane, just powerhouses! T+’s batiks,, t-matrix, t+ivory, t+ batrix, and 007 (goldeneye matrix). Canadian market is utterly dead up here too. On the upside, people are producing twice as much bloods now. This can be very good for blood pythons. But yes I’ve seen really great holy grail blood pythons just sitting there for years price very low still no one will buy :( same with boas and macklots, coastal, jungle carpets.
@@JK-vy8vh everything is still for sale and I’m down to about 20 some odd animals now. I’m actually in ever worse shape now lol. My car motor blew and had to take on another 15k in debt
mine likes the water bowl which is fine but makes a mess with the water which causes me to have to constantly clean the cage other than that a very good species mine is tame so far which is good hes 7 months old very strong feeding response feeding live jumbo mice
@@Watchoutforsnakez generally you don’t want to move them too far as they are dependent on their knowledge of the area. Often moving them once will encourage them to leave as they don’t want the interaction but sometimes the temptation is too much. I’d try somewhere in the range of a mile or two and make sure it’s a safe location for them.
@@harlandcamley3996 I’m not sure, but there are in Hamden at sleeping giant- so it’s certainly possible if there’s areas in west haven with the right habitat.
I don’t work with these animals myself in order to answer that question- but what we know with animals in general is many changes happen even when you’re focus may be on something completely different- like with dogs breeding to remove fight or flight response happened to also be tied to ear cartilage among other things. So I’m sure selective breeding in reptiles will also produce some unintended and unexpected changes as well with time.
Thank you so much. Its my dream snake. I dont buy one, because I thought they was so big. But I dont know, that they get to much food. Now I want to buy one. How often do you feet them if you dont breed with a male? Greetings from Germany! 😊
Sometimes you can put two males with the same female and the way that snake eggs are fertilized you can get clutches where one male sired some babies and another male sired others. It’s not common, but can happen because unlike some species pythons do not have sperm plugs, so there is nothing to stop one snakes sperm from getting in and fertilizing certain eggs. So the males are not breeding her at the same time but over the course of the same cycle. Many of these snakes store the sperm for a couple weeks upwards of a year sometimes and will allow their eggs to be fertilized when they feel the time is right and that food should be abundant when the babies do come
Can i get some advice, i own a few snakes, and i always wanted to take the out in the sun, for a short time. Our vet recommended it, however im worried about ticks. Is there other things i need to potentially worry about?
I have a video somewhere on the channel specifically talking about potential dangers of this. In over 20 years of taking snakes outdoors I’ve never had one pick up a tick- but it’s not impossible and it’s worth giving them a once over before going back in their enclosure if you can. You need to worry more about potential escape/holes, predators and even other people or chemicals more than parasites.
Man that sucks. I hate to see the good breeders struggle to make ends meet while some of these other assholes just funnel animals to "get rich". I've always wanted blood/ short tail python and your videos were the ones that taught me the most. Thank you for all the time you've put in. It's really sad to see you go. 😢
Growing up I used to have ball pythons, they were great. All the time we would have them around our necks. I am not seeing anyone doing that with these snakes, I am assuming its not a good ideal?
It’s really not prudent to put a large constrictor around your neck. These animals are strong and if they coil you right you can lose consciousness in seconds, so I don’t ever recommend it. Plus these guys are pretty strictly terrestrial/fossorial and don’t really hold on all that well up in the air. I have plenty of them I let around my face though.
Do you know if anyone has made a hybrid between a burmese python and a blood/short-tail python? I've been looking around but not seeing anything. I mean there are ball/burm hybrids, and ball/blood hybrids, but not burm/blood.
I don’t know. Hopefully not- but people love to create these abominations and mix these animals with different functions, body styles, husbandry requirements etc. So I’m sure people have sadly tried. Most hybrids have a pile of bodies stacked behind them which most breeders don’t share or talk about. Even hybrids of animals from similar places like burm/retic crosses there’s a slew of slugs, babies that don’t go to term, deformities and animals that die prematurely once born in the wake to get 1 or 2 that can even make it a decade. It’s been done a ton of times- but how many thriving adults do you see? Very, very few.
I really enjoyed listening to you talk, very genuine in your love for these animals, with well-researched and well-argued content, I specially liked your video on breeding for a balanced temperament and keeping nervous animals as pet only. Thank you for all the insights and tips. I am sad to find this video, wishing you all the best!!
I’ve never tried to secure the lid on these- but I’m sure with a soldering iron or something to make clean holes you could use some type of clips etc. Bloods/shoe tails pretty much never try and escape or go up that far so I’ve never had to do it.
No. I’m no longer breeding snakes. My collection is up for sale but I have nothing younger than 2022 I produced and I have 2023 female Sumatran produced by TBC.
Dan Maganos information on Bloods and Short tails, was on the $, he gave 110% in providing and caring for these beautiful pythons. Watched all his videos, and just loved the content overall. 🫡
You have one of the only worthwhile chanels on RU-vid. You will be sorely missed. I have lost my entire collection several times in my life. I have real pain for your situation. I wish you the very best.
"hundreds of dollars every month" Truly? Most frozen rodent's/chickens don't cost that much. And at 10 cents per kilowatt hour, it only costs 7.2ish $ a month per 100 watts (used for the full month) here. Well, I only have one Black rat snake and she is only a bit over a pound, I guess I could see how things could add up with more snakes. Enclosure prices, on the other hand, are ridiculous. I am figuring out different ways to turn a 3x2x6, resin storage shelf into an enclosure, using either corrugated plastic, rigid twin wall plastic, or water resistant drywall with a good waterproof paint, and some screws. I am also hoping to make my job easier with timed power strips/surge protectors. Also, (wall of text incoming) when you get any guff from a Christian about how weird it is to keep snakes, go full Bible on em, and mention that the fiery serpent was a symbol of Christ and Truth, (the truth/reality will kill you if you ignore them, perhaps by believing you can fly, so you have to turn towards Truth, and bring yourself into alignment with truth, to survive) Also mention that Christ asked the early Christians to be wise, as serpents. And they wont understand what it means to be wise in the manner of a serpent if they never ask a snake enthusiast how snakes: avoid predators, survive the winter, survive shedding, etc. Then there is the fact that God created all the animals, and it says in Genesis that they are good. And for people who love American heritage, whatever you think of people who use the "Don't tread on me" flag today, it is American heritage, as well as the "join or die" picture, and both are pictures of rattlesnakes. And because people created the legends around rat snakes, and North American water snakes that led to the names "Pilot black snake" And "Water pilot" respectively, we have American snakes that are a symbol of leading others to safety during hard times. (I am guessing those myths were excuses to kill snakes out of fear of rattlesnakes and water moccasins, but I don't care, I am using the myths for my own purpose, and that purpose is to get people to like snakes more) But you could just ask anyone who does not like snakes if they love having gophers, rodent's, and other small animals breeding exponentially with no check on the population, eating everything in sight. It is tempting to ask anti-snake people why they think it's ok to keep other carnivorous animals, like cat's and dog's, but not snakes, but that just makes people defensive.
Well I don’t know where you live, but I’d kill for electricity that cheap lol! Right now they dropped the rates to around .15 per KW, but when I made this video it was .24 and plus we pay outrageous fees for delivery here. So like my most recent bill was $181 for what I used my total bill was over $360 between delivery fees, local fees etc etc. But compared to last year at this time when my bills were 500+ I’ll take it- and electricity doesn’t even do my heat- that’s oil and super expensive too. When they lowered the kw rate they increased our delivery rate so it wasn’t all that much of a savings lol. As far as feeders go it varies but feeders run anywhere from as low as about $1/each up to $10+ per item. Even at that low of $1 and even if you only feed 2x per month that’s $200/month alone for 100 snakes- and that’s the low and a super light schedule. Realistically I’d say average feeding bill per month here is 300-500. Variety is important and appropriate sized meals for the animals.
@@DanMaganoSnakes Utah, I think any State where fossil fuels are a net export, is going to have pretty good electricity prices. Also, damn, 100 snakes. You really know how to take care of some animals. Saw your farewell EP. just now, however you proceed, good luck.
