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I don't consider reptiles as pets, but as a collection. Most require special habitat/environment considerations to thrive. I've kept and bred Emerald tree boas, both sub species, during the last decade. Anyone else keep collections of reptiles?
ETBs?? One of my favorites! Of course your name Dogboa gave it away....those snakes are gorgeous....
Don't have retile collections but a one-time boyfriend did...we used to go "snake hunting"....a trip to find collectible snakes. I really came to enjoy it. Even found some on my own....a corn snake, beautifully orange and a scarlet kingsnake, equally stunning. He had the corn snake for years.
I only had a problem when he fed some of his snakes with live mice.....a little nausea....
ETBs?? One of my favorites! Of course your name Dogboa gave it away....those snakes are gorgeous....
Don't have retile collections but a one-time boyfriend did...we used to go "snake hunting"....a trip to find collectible snakes. I really came to enjoy it. Even found some on my own....a corn snake, beautifully orange and a scarlet kingsnake, equally stunning. He had the corn snake for years.
I only had a problem when he fed some of his snakes with live mice.....a little nausea....
Pics??
I'll have to up load some pics. I always fed F/T and none of my neonates were ever sold if they weren't established on F/T. Most folks are surprised to find that emerald are red (C. caninus) or burnt orange (C. batesii) when born. I've only see C. caninus neonates born with adult coloration and they are few and far between.
Here is a pic of our first successful breeding of (C. batesii), commonly known as Amazon Basin ETBs.
I built the caging. Emeralds have very specific temperature and humidity requirements.
When I was in my 20s, I had a good size collection of North American crotalids (rattlesnakes, and copperheads). I also dabbled in exotic venomous.
I don't consider reptiles as pets, but as a collection. Most require special habitat/environment considerations to thrive. I've kept and bred Emerald tree boas, both sub species, during the last decade. Anyone else keep collections of reptiles?
I wouldn't say I actively collected them just to say I had this or that species, but I have kept multiple species of chameleons and terrestrial frogs. Most of the chameleons were rescues from other clueless pet buyers. I didn't attempt to breed them; too many going without homes as it was.
The frogs were collected to establish a breeding colony in captivity. The "collection" was housed by several people who exchanged individuals. We didn't quite succeed but got close. When it became clear after a few years of trying that the climatic influences that help trigger spawning weren't going to happen in my location I donated mine to an aquarium where it was a lot more likely. It was gut wrenching to box them up and see them go but wanted to give the captive population the best chance. A couple of days after they arrived (long distance jet transport tends to promote spawning) two of my best females produced viable eggs, they were fertilized, and several hundred tadpoles hatched. I was insanely jealous...but in a good way. I doubt any of them survived to morph into adult frogs however...almost no one in any country has been successful.
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I'll have to up load some pics. I always fed F/T and none of my neonates were ever sold if they weren't established on F/T. Most folks are surprised to find that emerald are red (C. caninus) or burnt orange (C. batesii) when born. I've only see C. caninus neonates born with adult coloration and they are few and far between.
Here is a pic of our first successful breeding of (C. batesii), commonly known as Amazon Basin ETBs.
I built the caging. Emeralds have very specific temperature and humidity requirements.
I'll have to up load some pics. I always fed F/T and none of my neonates were ever sold if they weren't established on F/T. Most folks are surprised to find that emerald are red (C. caninus) or burnt orange (C. batesii) when born. I've only see C. caninus neonates born with adult coloration and they are few and far between.
Here is a pic of our first successful breeding of (C. batesii), commonly known as Amazon Basin ETBs.
I built the caging. Emeralds have very specific temperature and humidity requirements.
When I was in my 20s, I had a good size collection of North American crotalids (rattlesnakes, and copperheads). I also dabbled in exotic venomous.
Awesome cage.....
and what a beautiful ETB. No, had no idea they were born orange to red but see them in the pic.
Do you sell to friends or are you more extended?
The old boyfriend and I kept snakes we found for a while but always let them go back into the wild...even the corn snake...
I wouldn't say I actively collected them just to say I had this or that species, but I have kept multiple species of chameleons and terrestrial frogs. Most of the chameleons were rescues from other clueless pet buyers. I didn't attempt to breed them; too many going without homes as it was.
The frogs were collected to establish a breeding colony in captivity. The "collection" was housed by several people who exchanged individuals. We didn't quite succeed but got close. When it became clear after a few years of trying that the climatic influences that help trigger spawning weren't going to happen in my location I donated mine to an aquarium where it was a lot more likely. It was gut wrenching to box them up and see them go but wanted to give the captive population the best chance. A couple of days after they arrived (long distance jet transport tends to promote spawning) two of my best females produced viable eggs, they were fertilized, and several hundred tadpoles hatched. I was insanely jealous...but in a good way. I doubt any of them survived to morph into adult frogs however...almost no one in any country has been successful.
At one Daytona show, the table next to us were breeders of dart frogs. I found it amazing that they are only poisonous in their natural habitat and due to something in their diet. Fruit flies are what captive dart frogs eat.
This girl represents the most sought after markings of C. batesii, complete dorsal stripe and lots of diamonds.
Wow....how pretty. Love the markings.
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