Anyone got a Woma?

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Originally Posted by Skiploder

Depends - you can get a male from $350 to $750. Prices are coming down a bit as more and more are available.

Female are harder to get - most are sold with males as a pair - $1,200 to $1,800 for a pair.

I was able to get my single females for $750 and $800 - shipped.

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I have WAY to many snakes on my "I want it list" -_-

There is a breeder on Kingsnake that posted some with really decent prices yesterday.

I want I want I want!

Womas are wonderful snakes to keep - beautiful, hardy, fantastic feeders. Looking forward to pairing mine up this year, now that my best female is (finally!) of age. :D

K~

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Originally Posted by N4S

There is a breeder on Kingsnake that posted some with really decent prices yesterday.

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Keep in mind that womas are where the antaresia spp were a few years ago....

By that I mean that it wasn't but a few years ago that every antareasia was a children's python. Now there are four species and breeders are more careful about keeping the different spp. pure.

There are several locality womas that are distinct in several way some examples:

Boodarie
Tanami
Uluru
Pilbara

Some breeders are just selling "womas". While others are starting to realize that each locality spp. should be kept pure.

If you browse the Australian snake forums, you will see that they are a bit pickier than us when it comes to keeping the localities separate.

I really really really want a Woma!! they are sooooo pretty!

Here are a few pics of some of ours. We have 5 females that have already started breeding with males, so we should have a few nice clutches coming up here pretty quick!!! As for keeping them, they are great snakes with great personalities and are a ton of fun to keep!!! Anyway, here are the pics.

One of our red males
http://www.australianaddiction.com/woma_05-1M-May06.jpg

One of the females smiling for the camera https://ball-pythons.net/forums/imag...ies/th_sun.gif
http://www.australianaddiction.com/w...SmileMay06.jpg

And finally, one of the pairs breeding (posted this pic a few days ago)

http://www.australianaddiction.com/WOMA_Breed07.jpg

Those are certainly Beautiful Ben. I love the red color and the banding appears to be really crisp and clean. I've seen Womas before that were sold as 'hypos' where the banding seemed to be kind of fuzzy and not very distinct. Are those a specific locality? Or just a different color phase?

Mark

Mark, thanks for the kind comments. Well, we actually got EXTREMELY lucky and were able to pick up 4.4 of Python Pete's holdback womas. When we left his house he literally no longer had any womas left, they were his very last ones (was an emotional moment for Pete). So anyway, these have been line bred for color and contrast for many years, and these were the best Pete had, and they are VERY nice. Have to pinch myself still each time I look at them even though we have had them for about a year and a half now :) . So, our hopes are very high that we will get some show stoppers out of these clutches this year.

Really nice Womas. I have a question-what size tub is that? It seems like they have similar heat requirements as balls, so can I keep them in a 41 qt rack? It seems like it would work.