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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 136488" data-attributes="member: 26980">If I was to go with a venomous snake, & money was no object, I'd do a false water cobra.  It's rear fanged and sort of like a water loving hognose on steroids with no major feeding problems according to what I've researched into it.  I like the fact that they are supposed to be intelligent as well.  My black rat snake wasn't much in the IQ department, but still would react to 3 taps on the side of the enclosure after a feeder was added.  That reinforcement prevented it from mistaking my hand for a mouse mostly.  It took several months for it to learn that however.Still, he would come right out for getting a bath after every cage cleaning and sadly enough passed away from mouth rot, which I didn't know was treatable at the time because I was just a kid.  Now the veterinary medicine has progressed much farther then it was in the late 20th century.So has the cages. I was using an aquarium with a carefully fitted piece of wood on the top of it that sat in the notched rails on top, secured with half a cinder block. You have no idea how much nicer the Terra Blue or even the ZooMed enclosures are!!</blockquote>