Natrix on the way!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I am SO excited right now I can hardly contain myself. I just ordered 1.2 cb '09 european grass snakes, natrix natrix and 1.1 cb '09 egyptian water snakes natrix tesselata from glades herp farm. They will be here tomorrow. I have been trying to get my hands on these two species since I saw some natrix natrix when I was 14 years old.They are very hard to come by in the U.S!!! I may as well have gotten tetrataenia!!! (even though I cant.......) I am SO EXCITED to be adding natrix to my spectrum of natricine snakes!

Also, at the next hamburg expo I have 3 species of xenochrophis coming in! Striped (vittata), Checkered (piscator) and Red Spotted (trianguligera). I've got everything I need to hopefully get those guys off to a great start. From there we can hope to see the start of a true captive breeding program for these species! I would love to see that happen so that endless importation and mistreatment of these wonderful animals can be slowed. They are not coming second hand from a wholesaler who has had time to neglect them, ship them multiple times and throw them around endlessly so they should be in a lot better shape than what we have previously seen regarding these types of snakes. They will only be arriving a few days before the show!

Now I am not quite so saddened by all the empty enclosures (there are quite a few actually) I have from selling off most of my non-natricine snakes! Pics of the natrix coming tomorrow!

[guidofatherof5]

Okay, So this thread without photos was to do what?????? Drive us all crazy!
We need the pics.

I'm very happy for you.:)

[pitbulllady]

Congrats on those Natrix, Shannon! It's rare to find ANY European snakes for sale here in the US, actually, as I've wanted to get my hands on a pair of Vipera berus for years. It will be interesting to compare these to our NA Natricine snakes, in terms of behavior.

As for me, I can't quite force myself to give up my non-Natricine snakes, yet, especially my Boas, but my rodent allergies might force me to do just that eventually. It's so much easier to care for the Water Snakes and my little "crack-baby" Eastern checkered and my blue-striped Ribbon, since I can shop for their food at the same time I shop for mine, without a nearly two-hour trip(one way)to the rodent breeder's.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Congrats on those Natrix, Shannon! It's rare to find ANY European snakes for sale here in the US, actually, as I've wanted to get my hands on a pair of Vipera berus for years. It will be interesting to compare these to our NA Natricine snakes, in terms of behavior.

As for me, I can't quite force myself to give up my non-Natricine snakes, yet, especially my Boas, but my rodent allergies might force me to do just that eventually. It's so much easier to care for the Water Snakes and my little "crack-baby" Eastern checkered and my blue-striped Ribbon, since I can shop for their food at the same time I shop for mine, without a nearly two-hour trip(one way)to the rodent breeder's.

Yes indeed!!! I love being able to buy my food, and the garter's food all at once! My local grocery store actually sells beheaded silversides in big bags for just $4 a bag. My snakes LOVE them and since they are bred as human food I can't possibly find a cleaner source of feeders. I've got a cart full of 5 bags of beheaded fishies and a couple pounds of trout or salmon... People always look at me like... man she must really like seafood....

[Kelan]

NO FAIR!!! lol can't wait for pix! Would you mind spilling the secret source? :D

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

His name is Joe and he vends at hamburg... I can't think of his whole name at them moment! If you were to order any of these snakes you would have to order a mulptiple lot of them, like, 15 of them, not just one or two. I have 2.3 of each species coming. He actually has to order them in 10 lots per species and he was nice enough to order a 10 lot of each, and keep half to sell himself and sell half to me. My goal is to come out of this at the VERY minimal least a 1.1 pair of each (that's only if for some reason they do horrible) but with as prepared as I am for them I hopefully will have very minimal losses. It's a ton of work. I have to set up a shelf outside of the snakeroom with tanks with somewhat naturalistic settings to make them feel secure as well as quarantine them from my other snakes. Then there will be a lengthy period of convincing them to trust me and the tongs as provider of food, figuring out what they like to eat and getting them to try new things....as well as apprehending any nasty little bugs that may or may not present themselves during that process. But, if you are willing to wait... this project should result in clean, healthy snakes for sale from me, I probably will eventually let go a 1.1 pair of each depending on how things go, as well as, down the road... babies!!!

[Kelan]

Well, keep us updated!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

you know I will! :cool:

[ssssnakeluvr]

where's that dang raspberry smiley......:eek: I have been wanting them for years (even longer than you.....read a story on them when I was a kid....so, probably wanting them long before you were born :rolleyes:) better keep me in mind when the babies start popping..... :D

[Stefan-A]

I am SO excited right now I can hardly contain myself. I just ordered 1.2 cb '09 european grass snakes, natrix natrix and 1.1 cb '09 egyptian water snakes natrix tesselata from glades herp farm. They will be here tomorrow. I have been trying to get my hands on these two species since I saw some natrix natrix when I was 14 years old.They are very hard to come by in the U.S!!! I may as well have gotten tetrataenia!!! (even though I cant.......) I am SO EXCITED to be adding natrix to my spectrum of natricine snakes!
Great, you're getting my tetrataenia equivalent, Natrix natrix. :D

That common name for N. tessellata is unfamiliar to me, they're usually called Dice Snakes.

[gregmonsta]

Congrats on those ;) ... it is possible to keep them in Britain tho ... :P so we get both :D

[mustang]

pics please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Great, you're getting my tetrataenia equivalent, Natrix natrix. :D

That common name for N. tessellata is unfamiliar to me, they're usually called Dice Snakes.

I guess now we are even Stefan!!! :p

That is very interesting! I have had two different places refer to them as egyptian water snakes but I have never heard that they are Dice snakes before. Dice snakes is so much simpler though, I think I will go with that :D

[Stefan-A]

Well, they are water snakes and that line might well be from Egypt, but I wouldn't refer to them as that. They're found in Europe, Africa and Asia, according to wikipedia.

Lebanon, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Italy, Czech Republic, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, China.