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My Kofiau Pair
Hi Guys,
I purchased this Kofiau pair recently.
Male: Yellow individual, 2016 import, farm product. Has sub-dermal bumps due to parasites, which are dead now. Apparently these bumps will stay unless they are surgically removed but gets barely noticeable when the animal is full grown. He is small now and should be ready to breed 17/18 with decent feeding I assume. I hope he stays yellow :) ...
http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6760/d2N4hz.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img921/3666/AsSrA2.jpg
Female: Green individual with yellow belly scales. She was supposed to be yellow most of her life but changed color but no photos so who knows. 2015 import, has been in captivity for over a year.
http://imageshack.com/a/img922/1278/qCRBEq.jpg
Both fed immediately on frozen/thawed mice so no feeding problems at all. I am excited for these guys.
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Gorgeous animals, GTP's are definitely on my want list over here!
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Very nice pair. I'm jealous.
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Thanks guys, they are really cool animals.
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woaa
beautiful pair
that yellow boy with his silver creamy pattern
usually i found that pattern more like red or black
nice :gj:
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Originally Posted by wibihihi
woaa
beautiful pair
that yellow boy with his silver creamy pattern
usually i found that pattern more like red or black
nice :gj:
Yeah, I love the coloration on him. Hope he stays this way :).
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Congratulations on that gorgeous pair Naja! :)
Enjoy
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Congratulations! Gorgeous pair to help re-populate your room!
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Thanks guys.
Male shed yesterday with no issues.
Here are a couple photos:
With flash
http://imageshack.com/a/img923/5687/DeavRz.jpg
Without flash:
http://imageshack.com/a/img924/2779/RpO5R4.jpg
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He sure knows how to brighten up a room! :)
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I have no experience with gtp's but I always thought pure kofiau islands always stayed fully yellow into adulthood? Nice green trees though either way!
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Thanks for the comments everyone.
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Originally Posted by piedpipper
I have no experience with gtp's but I always thought pure kofiau islands always stayed fully yellow into adulthood? Nice green trees though either way!
No, unfortunately not really. There are some nice blues that come out of Kofiau as well and all Kofiau GTPs can turn green anytime in their adult lifes. Happens a lot with females when breeding hormones kick in.
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Great lookers! I've only had one and Im a hands on keeper, needless to say a lot of blood was shed.
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Originally Posted by Rob
Great lookers! I've only had one and Im a hands on keeper, needless to say a lot of blood was shed.
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They are quite bitey, especially if you try to pick them up from perches at night. That also stresses them a lot. One way to do it is to remove the perch with the snake and let them treat you like a branch. That works a lot better.
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Beautiful pair! Love how bright yellow he is and the silverish markings. :)
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Originally Posted by Aerithya
Beautiful pair! Love how bright yellow he is and the silverish markings. :)
Thanks! Those markings have a purple tinge as well, really cool.
I think I shot a very cool video this week of the yellow Kofiau Morelia viridis... I need to use this camera more for video it seems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_5mnwP1T7E
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Nice video, I really enjoyed that. Such a cool snake!
Thanks! :)
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Originally Posted by Reinz
Nice video, I really enjoyed that. Such a cool snake!
Thanks! :)
Thanks buddy, here is the female:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOlOks385c
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She is a beautiful snake. She should make a great mate for your male.
Thanks for the video! :)
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Thank you for sharing these! Gorgeous!
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Yellow just ate and is doing great. Very skittish though, strikes the glass unprovoked, shows all the signs of a wild caught animal. He is farm bred of course but these farms are not that far away form
the jungle environment I think...
http://imageshack.com/a/img921/6266/ybnEir.jpg
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So this happened!:
http://imageshack.com/a/img924/6482/fR3A3x.jpg
Took about 2 weeks within once shed cycle. Now the question is degree of yellow that is going to remain...
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So the yellow male from Kofiau turned green within 3 weeks. Significant loss in monetary value but he still looks amazing:
http://imageshack.com/a/img923/439/L21Qjf.jpg
Here is a video of him and the female:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpDCMur8eeA
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Wow, I didn't think they could get more beautiful, until I saw the pic of the male after shed. Good God!
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They're gorgeous snakes. What are the little bumps on your male?
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Wow, I didn't think they could get more beautiful, until I saw the pic of the male after shed. Good God!
He is amazing but I liked him better. I am a sucker for yellow snakes.
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Originally Posted by Fraido
They're gorgeous snakes. What are the little bumps on your male?
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He is farm bred so they are parasites. Medication killed them but only surgery can remove the worms and the abscess, which is unnecessary stress on the snake.
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Interesting! They wouldn't decompose in there or anything? I've seen similar bumps in a wild caught vine snake, I guess it also had parasites.
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Interesting! They wouldn't decompose in there or anything? I've seen similar bumps in a wild caught vine snake, I guess it also had parasites.
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I truly have no idea but I have heard them being removed ages after treatment. They will probably end up being a cyst after a while.
Here is the male, kept some of his yellow:
http://imageshack.com/a/img921/8271/WQtrnS.jpg
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Woo-hoo! Snake porn! [emoji6]
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Woo-hoo! Snake porn! [emoji6]
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They were at it for about 12hrs give or take.
They will be together for the next couple weeks so more of this to come :).
http://imageshack.com/a/img921/6726/3kNlO8.jpg
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Nothing came of the previous set of matings but the male went off feed again so they are together one more time:
For some reason, my image codes don't work so here is a direct link:
http://imageshack.com/a/img921/2487/JTDcSx.jpg
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They look great, cool pic! :)
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