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i breed california kingsnakes
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Same here! All locality CA kings. F1's and wc.

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Nothing beats pure locality breedings, especially if from WC and f1 stock. Awesome!
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Knockin Cauds Cali Style
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Getting out hognoses up to weight for next year.
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This year: Amazon Tree Boas (already gravid), Ball Pythons, Banded Cat-eyed Snakes, Sonoran Desert Boas (already gravid), New Guinea Tree Boas, Solomon Island Ground Boas, Solomon Island Tree Boas, and Haitian Boas (already gravid).

Next year if I can find suitable pairs: Bornean Short-tailed Pythons, DCI Carpet Pythons, Jungle Carpet Pythons, Amazon False Coral Snakes

2-3 years when some have size: Mussuranas and Bimini Island Boas

Those CA Kings are sweet!
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CCarille wrote:This year: Amazon Tree Boas (already gravid), Ball Pythons, Banded Cat-eyed Snakes, Sonoran Desert Boas (already gravid), New Guinea Tree Boas, Solomon Island Ground Boas, Solomon Island Tree Boas, and Haitian Boas (already gravid).

Next year if I can find suitable pairs: Bornean Short-tailed Pythons, DCI Carpet Pythons, Jungle Carpet Pythons, Amazon False Coral Snakes

2-3 years when some have size: Mussuranas and Bimini Island Boas

Those CA Kings are sweet!
Thanks! You have a good size collection going there. I bet they keep you busy. Not many people work with those Cat-eyed snakes that I know of.

Zach, great minds think alike. lol

Justin, I love those goini.
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I'm trying to breed my mexican hogs this year. I've seen them locked up a few times, but no signs of the female being gravid :(

Next year, I hope to try my easterns and southerns.
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i have a 100% het albino hog, a male, those bastards are hard to feed :lol: i breed locality WC kings
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repaphin wrote:i have a 100% het albino hog, a male, those bastards are hard to feed :lol: i breed locality WC kings

What's an albino hog? What locality kings?
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albino hognose and local kings from my area
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repaphin wrote:albino hognose and local kings from my area

Are you obtuse? I hope you know that there are "hognose" snakes on three continents, and they span quite few species. There are countless localities for King snakes, let alone species... Maybe you shouldn't have posted in this thread, it seems to be beyond your grasp.
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Western Hognosed snakes and i have a pair of mexican kingsnake yearlings for future project
male low expression anaconda phase het albino
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justinm wrote:
repaphin wrote:albino hognose and local kings from my area

Are you obtuse? I hope you know that there are "hognose" snakes on three continents, and they span quite few species. There are countless localities for King snakes, let alone species... Maybe you shouldn't have posted in this thread, it seems to be beyond your grasp.
:lol: He's 15 and still has a lot to learn about, well, everything. :lol:
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I like the Anaconda phase.
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im not going to post the locality and of course i know that? geeze and its a western hognose
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Eastern Indigos...(Drymarchon couperi) Eggs incubating, and I may have gravid sand boas (Eryx johnni), they are very fat so I am unsure...
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repaphin wrote:im not going to post the locality and of course i know that? geeze and its a western hognose
You can describe them as a particular locale in Western Riverside County.
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VICtort wrote:Eastern Indigos...(Drymarchon couperi) Eggs incubating, and I may have gravid sand boas (Eryx johnni), they are very fat so I am unsure...
Do you have to have some kind of permit for those Eastern Indigos in CA?
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my friends brother breeds them he says that theyre tough to get them to breed
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Ross Padilla wrote:Do you have to have some kind of permit for those Eastern Indigos in CA?
No permit is required for keeping Eastern indigos in California, but one would be needed to transport them across state lines.

As far as what I have going on this year I have green tree python eggs and 2 clutches of ball python eggs in the incubator right now. I may be getting Bredl's python eggs, but I am not sure at this point. I produced 19 Rio Fuerte beaded lizards earlier this year, and I hope to produce Madagascar giant hognose, black milksnakes, Andean milksnakes, Tamaulipan ratsnakes, cave dwelling ratsnakes, and maybe Argentine boas if I am lucky...
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Various subspecies and localities of Lampropeltis triangulum. It's hard to get a reliable follicle/ova palp done on a rubber boa, so one or several of my females may be gravid, too. If so, add Charina bottae to the list.

First this happens:
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Then, later on, you get this:
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That's an awfully pretty hatchling, Cole! :thumb:

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Thanks, Gerry! Those two particular adults are absolutly smokin'. For realz. The photo was lightened in an editing program - it was taken when the room was pretty dark to avoid distrubing them. She's about 3 times his size, so if she decides to move, he's just along for the ride.
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Cole Grover wrote:... She's about 3 times his size, so if she decides to move, he's just along for the ride.
Be our females (or ourselves) big or small, so are we all! :lol:

I'd love to see your collection someday, Amigo!

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rosy, rubber and viper boas
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I currently have eggs from Ghost Hondurans, Albino Nelsons, Okeetee Corns, Hypo Everglades ratsnakes, and some random corn snake eggs that came in to adoptions. I am waiting on Blackheaded Python eggs, Kenyon Sand Boa babies x3 females, Amazon Tree Boa babies x3-4 females, and hopelessly waiting on woma eggs... they don't look likely... at all. Got a few more years before things get really cool and I can breed Pseustes poecilonotus, P. sulphureus, and Spilotes pullatus. Oh and I have some carpet python babies.

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dang haha i have 2 pairs of kings breeding and i want to breed rosys later on and western hognose. im new to breeding, this is my first year. ive bred ball pythons before but they died shortly after
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Just got my woma python clutch (13 eggs), awaiting my hogg island boa litter, and got a pair of subocs going to town (only got one true month of cool down, terrible winter).
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Cole - I'd love to see some pics of your rubber boas. I've always thought they were pretty neat.

Hornemadness - I'd love to see your viper boas. Candoia are one of my favorite genera.
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P.deppei jani, western hognose, and in the not terribly distant future, eastern coachwhips, rubber boas, O.p.coxi. Also, working with ackies, fire skinks, and a small leopard gecko colony. I pretty much only breed the geckos to give away to friends and family wanting a beginner herp for their kids.

I'm a big fan of the uncommon, "underappreciated" stuff, with a particular soft-spot for large, active, arid-adapted colubrids. Malpolon and Ptyas (even though those are less arid) are my dream critters. As well as a whole slew of Australian elapids I can't have unless I leave the states. Sigh.
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i want to breed rear fanged snakes
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Gerry,

:lol: :beer: I hear. Thanks for the kind words, too! If you ever make it up this way, you're more than welcome. We can discuss the ins and outs of the picky little buggers over some locally-crafted beverages, even. I'm serious.

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Chris,

You've caught me off-gaurd! I honestly don't have any recent photos of any of my Charina to post. Not many people seem to care what they look like, so I haven't ever been prompted to spend much time with them and the camera. I'll try to get something done soon, but work's been busy (even working weekends right now). I'll post when I get some photos done.

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No worries Cole! :) I know rubber boas pretty much all look the same, but it's just something about them that interests me. They definitely intrigue me and I always love seeing them when the opportunity seldom arises.
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crotalus adamanteus, sistrurus milliarius, crotalus mollosus, heterodon nasicus & kennerlyi, love the crots and heterodon
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Cole Grover wrote:Gerry,

:lol: :beer: I hear. Thanks for the kind words, too! If you ever make it up this way, you're more than welcome. We can discuss the ins and outs of the picky little buggers over some locally-crafted beverages, even. I'm serious.
I will definitely keep your invitation in mind, amigo! :beer: My wife and I have been applying for various MT wildlife biology/conservation positions; I haven't gotten asked to interview for anything up there yet, but I reckon it's only a matter of time until I do. And getting a job and becoming a neighbor would be even better than just visiting for an interview, of course! ;)

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Chance, i love crotes to, you should try to breed Crotalus Ruber, and Crotalus Cerastes .Are Rubber boas hard to get a hold of?
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rubber boas I have no answer for. I love the ruber and cerastes..baby steps for now...Just renewed my hot permit this past year so my collection is at its foundation stage. My goal is to work with and breed as many North American crotes as possible...
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I am too much of a control freak to breed anymore. I worry too much about where they will go.

If I had more time at home I would breed phantasticus or other of cult following because of the obsessive seriousness of those mostly that keep them.
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Cole your milksnakes are so beautiful. I would venture to say that the light bands/backg could be called truly Silver.
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I love cooking eggs and starting neonates. I have only used vermiculite coarse pref. I use a cabinet with 3" flex watt (stapled across back wall)and hydor on the top shelves (looped in a spiral along side walls) which may or may not be used depending on whats cooking in the boxes. Sometimes will take in eggs. Either to keep all or for a pick of the litter. I have dabbled in suspension and would like to try more but I am almost sentimental about vermiculite .
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Kelly Mc wrote:Cole your milksnakes are so beautiful. I would venture to say that the light bands/backg could be called truly Silver.
Cole your milksnakes are so beautiful. I would venture to say that the light bands/backg could be called truly Silver.
Thanks, Kelly! I appreciate that!
gbin wrote:My wife and I have been applying for various MT wildlife biology/conservation positions
No kidding? Sweet! Keep me posted.

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I breed:

Candoia paulsoni
Eryx colubrinus
Eryx muelleri
Eryx miliaris (including some of the worlds only albinos)
Eryx johni (sunsets)
Charina bottae
Heterodon nasicus
Heloderma suspectum
Morelia spilota ssp.
Pantherophis obsoletus (Locality specific)

Recent litter of Eryx miliaris-
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Hatching Eryx muelleri-
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I don't keep anything any more...pics only.... but in the past I have bred argus monitors, red spiny tailed monitors, veiled chameleons, emerald tree boas, leopard geckos, viper geckos, ornate and egyptian uromastyx , solomon island skinks, bearded dragons, (got eggs out of my blue tree monitors but never could get them to hatch), various rainbow boas, and more....(Ill have to sit and remember :) )

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Some kick ass animals posted here. Cole, those milks are marvelous; I honestly think some of the north american milks are prettier than hondurans and pueblans. I can't imagine breeding animals too small to take pinky mice.

Those E. milaris are pretty awesome too.
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corn snakes
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I breed numerous kings (mexicana, greeri, leonis "thayeri", alterna, ruthveni, californiae, holbrooki, nigrita, splendida, pyromelena, knoblochi, zonata, multifasciata) and a few Old World rat snakes (diones, situla)....I'm even trying my hand with some loxocemus bicolor.....

In the past I've bred other NA rat snakes, many milk snakes & corn snakes.......sceloporus and abronia lizards as well......
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I breed CalKings, Rosies and W. Hogs. Hope everybody has great success w/ their breeding projects next year.

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