species specific care anyone?

[Artic Exotics]

With that shipment of worms you just got in they should be some happy snakes.

oh they are! happy as a polar bear in a seal den... and just as voracious ;-) I was even able to get my male to eat a bit more and plan to hibernate late this year so I can get to a hearty post baby weight on all the adults. Now that ive got my winter feed set this is looking to be my best year yet for NW's. :-D

Im hoping to get a strong feel for the radix and easterns this year and try my hand at their breeding the year following. Its a new flavor for me since ive always stuck to ordinoides and pickeringii (with the exception of a pair of similis that I was sold accidentally as pickeringii and resold shortly thereafter)....

[Selkielass]

My experience is limited, but I have found the smaller species (T. Butlerii and brachiostoma) to have a faster metabolism than the bigger types, and to be somewhat more vulnerable to low humidity and shed problems.

You should find the bigger species a breeze. Same care as the little guys, but they are even tougher and more resilient to less than ideal conditions- I think this is why the larger species have wider distribution
The little guys can out reproduce/compete them when conditions are just right, but outside these moist microsystems the bigger species toughness becomes an advantage.