have anyone of you poison snakes?

[infernalis]

Here is some interesting snakes, A friend has these.......

[adamanteus]

Charles, I also kept a pair of Boiga cyanea for many years! It is my regret also, that I ever got rid of them.

[infernalis]

James did you start off with babies or adults?

Charles, I also kept a pair of Boiga cyanea for many years! It is my regret also, that I ever got rid of them.

[reptile3]

Charles, what a very nice looking snake!!

Wayne, OMG! those are gorgeous!!! LOVE the 3rd one.. those are vipers right?

[Stefan-A]

those are vipers right?

Yes, indeed they are.

[guidofatherof5]

Wow, great looking group.
Thanks Wayne for sharing the photos.

[charles parenteau]

I got them a few days after birth...it was my male now he's dead ..He died because my female almost eat him completely .2 days after this event he died...

[infernalis]

Charles, did you have to force feed them?

I still wonder about James' (former) Boiga cyanea


One could say, I am really fond of the green snakes..

[Loren]

Those are all very pretty snakes. Wish the arboral vipers werent illegal here. I think we can have Boiga's though. I know Mangroves are legal here.

[charles parenteau]

What you want is the boiga to take a feeding mode rather than defensive posture...if you try to feed them like other snake with tweezers the boiga will try to escape or will bite as defense ,this way the boiga dont keep the pinky in is mouth long enough..
keep the boiga tight in your hand 1 inche behind the head it allow the snake to bite freely ..then irritate the boiga with the smallest pinky by pushing on his head with it...
The snake will bite furiously or will chew the pinky ,the boiga will taste it.for the first two meal you should put snake shed on pinky head like helmet or kill a lezard or whatever ...i sacrifice a babie garter with anomalies..keep the boiga in your hand until he eat it completely or partialy..a few meal like that and you boiga will eat without problem..
its not force fed .the snake eatit by himself...
Be patient ,you should keep only the one who eat the first ...or its hell .