Gaboon vipers

http://www.venomland.net/t183-my-fem...s-g-rhinoceros

Realised I didn't put the link lol.

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Originally Posted by 3skulls

This thread is lacking pics.

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My female is in shed at the moment, once she's shed il get some pics of her and the male.

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Originally Posted by Crotalids

http://www.venomland.net/t183-my-fem...s-g-rhinoceros

Realised I didn't put the link lol.

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Those are very nice westerns. Love all the pink. It's funny, some of both the nicest and ugliest gab's I've seen are westerns. I would say that on average eastern's are the nicer of the 2 but without a doubt the nicest gab I've ever seen was a western. The background colour on that animal was almost completely white.

Gabs have always been my favorite snake species since I saw one at the zoo as a kid.

Don't know that I'll ever keep them, but I love the discussion, this is some fascinating stuff!

And you can never have too many pics :gj:

I dug up a couple of old pics of a B. GABONICA I used to own.
First is her as a juvinile. She was w.c so I'm not sure her exact age here but if I had to guess I'd say she was over a year at least. Sorry the picture is a bit blurry.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...age_175402.jpg

And then a picture of her after I'd had her almost 10 years. Defiantly not a baby anymore. She was close to 4' in this picture.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...onto-viper.jpg

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Originally Posted by jason_ladouceur

I dug up a couple of old pics of a B. GABONICA I used to own.
First is her as a juvinile. She was w.c so I'm not sure her exact age here but if I had to guess I'd say she was over a year at least. Sorry the picture is a bit blurry.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...age_175402.jpg

And then a picture of her after I'd had her almost 10 years. Defiantly not a baby anymore. She was close to 4' in this picture.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...onto-viper.jpg

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Nice! Do you still keep gabs?

I have to admit i prefer rhinoceros. But I like all Gaboons anyway, it's the little horns that make them more attractive to me lol.

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Originally Posted by Crotalids

Nice! Do you still keep gabs?

I have to admit i prefer rhinoceros. But I like all Gaboons anyway, it's the little horns that make them more attractive to me lol.

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Sadly I do not have any in my collection at the moment. Right now the only Bitis I keep is a lone male puff. But I will definatly be adding more gabs to the collection as soon as I find some. I would love a pair of eastern's but they are really hard to find here unfortunately. :(

If you want a hot snake first get a fast aggressive snake, Gonyosomas are known for being good practice snakes, so are olive pythons. If you can go at least a year without getting bitten by the snake you can start thinking about getting a hot one. Talk to a lot of handlers, they offer classes on how to handle hots, and see if you can find someone willing to let you practice with there snakes.

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Originally Posted by Faolan

If you want a hot snake first get a fast aggressive snake, Gonyosomas are known for being good practice snakes, so are olive pythons. If you can go at least a year without getting bitten by the snake you can start thinking about getting a hot one. Talk to a lot of handlers, they offer classes on how to handle hots, and see if you can find someone willing to let you practice with there snakes.

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There is no point in any aggressive non venomous snake.

What's the point? Nothing will get you into the correct mentality as working with a venomous snake.

Nothing wrong with learning with venomous snakes.

The first snake I ever handled was a 4ft Crotalus molossus. To be honest venomous keeping is 90% in the mind and 10% skill.

You don't need any skill to hook a lot of venomous snakes, they're a piece of cake. What matters most, is your mentality!

those things do back flip strikes! i saw it on youtube