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I have spent the last five years building up a collection of various
types of snakes
The first was a male California kingsnake I was given for Christmas
four years ago
(See the picture below.)
He was purchased as a hatchling about the size of a pencil and has
grown to over 6 feet long.
At that time I had never even held a snake and was unsure of being
bitten or hurting the snake by holding him too tight. He was very nervous
and appeared to be aggressive- he would strike at my hand and hiss. I quickly
found out that he would not try to bite if he was handled confidently-
firmly but gently.
The more he was handled the more relaxed he and I became.
I would definitely recommend either a kingsnake or a boa constrictor
as a first snake as they are generally very calm, easy to keep and don't
grow to an excessive size. 6 feet for a kingsnake might sound huge but
snakes rarely stretch out to full length and, contrary to popular belief,
common boas rarely grow in excess of 8 feet.
Several months later a female Kingsnake was obtained in the hope of breeding them. Four years down the line and my collection has grown to 14 including three types of watersnakes (brown, northern banded and diamondback), a trio of Sinaloan milksnakes, a pair of speckled kingsnakes,a pair of boa constrictors, and a royal python although occasionally I swap, buy, sell or otherwise trade some snakes for others and have housed up to 42 snakes including babies from the pair of kingsnakes and the pair of Boa Constrictors.
For the last two years my pair of boa constrictors have bred successfully to produce 15 and 18 babies respectively. One of which was sold last year to a friend of mine who has a photo of the boa on his homepage
Here are some links to sites with loads of information about snakes and other things reptillian
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