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!