What's better than a baby snake?

[Spankenstyne]

Thanks Richard, he's a jaw-dropper in person when folks see him for the first time (and any time after). Now he just needs a girlfriend or two

Thanks Jeff. They've been little piggies for the last month. Just one that seems to be lagging behind a bit and will be separated out from the bunch to live solo for a while while it puts on some size.

[ConcinusMan]

Nah.. he's not even close to jaw-dropping if you could see some of the others. If you think he's impressive, consider that he's just "so-so" when compared to some of these anery's, if you can imagine that. A few are just friggen glowing. Neon blue/green stripes and spots, glowing blue faces, I mean there's some really stunning ones out there. Mostly males, and not very many nice strong healthy ones.

Yeah, I know, everyone wants pairs or people who have males only, want females. I just can't do it. There aren't very many good strong breeding age females out there that are anery. It makes me a bit apprehensive about taking any.

[Spankenstyne]

No worries, I was meaning just regular single stripe type concinnus females (hoping from the same locality). I know you don't want to mess with any of the blue girls out there, I'd feel the same way.

[ConcinusMan]

You know, I crossed a male from that same population (he was hypoerythristic yellow spotted) to a normal single stripe female from another location 25 miles away.


http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gene...tml#post154163

Check out what I got from that litter. Awesome. Better than either parent:





I think there's something to be desired when crossing localities. Afterall, thats how some of the best looking CB representatives of some species/ssp come to be in the captive hobby.

[Spankenstyne]

Very nice. The locality isn't a big deal to me, but I definitely am looking for single stripe girls.

[ConcinusMan]

Oh I see what you're saying. Well if you're serious and you can get some way to get them into Canada again, let me know about a month or so ahead of time. I can always get a nice healthy WC and deworm her for you and make sure she's eating well. The place where he's from does have some spectacular normal females. I got this very pretty 3 ft girl there. She's flawless, eats like a pig, and is strong and muscular. There's plenty of various colored normal females. Some even have blue on their faces/sides. I just don't want to take any completely anery females. There aren't very many.





Breed one of those to your anery and you could get all kinds of interesting colored babies. The population does have lots of variety and very interesting colors. There's definitely no shortage of snakes, I'll tell you that. It's a very dense population.

[RedSidedSPR]

She's a big old girl. Wow.

[ConcinusMan]

She doesn't seem old at all. Not like big bertha. This girl is still pretty young I think. Just big.

[RedSidedSPR]

So she's wild caught?

[ConcinusMan]

What do you think? If you address the issues (deworming with several kinds of dewormer and possibly even antibiotics) and choose healthy strong specimens, they do very well.

All the problems that people quote and say that they have with wild-caught are perfectly solvable. You can "clean them up" with a little effort and eliminate the problems that go with wild-caught. Do nothing, no meds, and just keep them, you're likely to have problems with most of them.