Hello everyone!

Hi there. I'm new to this forum but not reptiles and reptile forums in general. I don't actually own any BPs but this forum looks a lot livelier than the dying ones I've previously been on, so thought I'd check it out.

My husband and I keep (currently) 18 species of snake and breed most of them. Mostly colubrids and boa species. I have only one python, a Green Tree python.

Well, off to look around more!

Well welcome aboard, overall it’s a very nice place to chat, share and learn.

Welcome !!!!!!


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Nice to have a noob with experience! Welcome!

You're right, this is one of the few reptile forums that is still heavily supported. You will enjoy your time here. :)

Welcome to the forum! Glad to have you on board.

I'd love to see your colubrids and what you're working with.

I actually keep a document with all our snakes. Here it is, I think it's up to date and not missing anyone. Not all hets are listed. Let me know if you want to see pictures of any of these.

Snake names and species.
Corn snakes
Max – Classic homo Tessera.
Alric – Striped/Motley Tessera.
Whiskey – Classic Tessera.
Winter – Classic Tessera.
Hadrian – Amel Tessera.
Gwen – Peppermint Tessera.
Warric – Charcoal Zagtec.
Arista – Hypo Cinder.
Brin – Ghost Bloodred.
Thrace - Caramel Tessera.
Suri - Honey Tessera.
Viper – Diffused Tessera.
Vixen – Diffused.
Tempest – Phantom.
Persephone – Phantom Tessera.
Badger – Charcoal Tessera.
Nikys – Classic Scaleless.

Western Hognose.
Kittaning – Albino het Pastel.
Sam – Albino 50% poss het Pastel.
Jo – Normal 50% het Albino.
Atticus – Normal.
Zeke – Anaconda.
Ziva – Albino Superconda

Tricolor Hognose
Niska
Patience

Rosy Boas.
Bridget – Ghost San Felipe.
Monty - Ghost San Felipe.
Sebastian – Mexican.
Emma – Mexican.

Kenyan Sand Boas
Cosmos – Albino het Anery.
Jinx – Anery het Albino.

Green Bush Ratsnakes
Azula
Toph
Roku
Aang

Thai Bamboo Ratsnakes/All Oreocryptophis
Atari – coxi
Serenity – coxi
Sokka – pulchra.
Suki – pulchra.
Vera – laticinctus.
Zarantha – vaillanti.

Mandarin Ratsnakes.
Inara
Malcolm

Amazon Tree Boas
Zuko
Mai

Brazilian Rainbow Boas.
Kaylee
Simon

African House snakes.
Indigo – T- Albino.
Ukiah – Normal het T- Albino.
Carrot – Paradox T- Albino.

Honduran Milksnake.
Smaug – Hypo Tangerine.

Green Tree python.
Iroh - Cyclops x Aru

Variable Kingsnake.
Raithe

Welcome, Charis!! :)

That's an awesome collection of colubrids!!!

Very glad to meet you, Charis, and your beautiful animals. Like you, I'm a long-time keeper of many kinds of snakes (I've had BPs in the past, but none
currently...I'm mostly keeping colubrids these days, along with an Aussie spotted python & a rosy boa), & just like you, I've seen other forums fade away
...so here we are. I joined recently & really enjoy it here so I think you will too. :snake:

Hmm ... Just noticed I am missing one from that list. Corn snake, Rhiannon. Caramel Motley.

Welcome! We've already "met" on a few other posts, but glad to have you on the forum.

Here's my eclectic collection:

0.1 - Albino Spider BP: Shayna - Have wanted an albino BP since I was a kid - and she is awesome.

0.1 - Ghost BCI: Behira - Amazing animal; beautiful and brave and docile.

1.0 - Hypo Lavender Corn: Figment - Beautiful, amazing temperament, and eats like a champ

0.0.1 - Northern Blue Tongue Skink: Frank - Awesome animal - amazing personality.

0.3 - Leopard Geckos, all different and beautiful morphs - Different personalities, but all fun and easy and pretty animals.

0.1 - SCALELESS Sunglow Motley Corn: Solana - Can't wait!!!!!!!!

Many, many, many people on here have BP's.

I do too, but it's been nice to see some more Boa people and Colubrid people on here and/or sharing more. Also, happy to hear about BTS and LG's.

I think you will make a wonderful addition and continue to diversify the site.

Awesome collection, by the way!

I absolutely love how many of your snakes are named after characters from Avatar.

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I absolutely love how many of your snakes are named after characters from Avatar.

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Almost all of them are named in themes, either TV shows or books. It's always fun when someone recognizes one of them. Means you've got good taste, LOL!

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Originally Posted by Charis

Let me know if you want to see pictures of any of these.

Mandarin Ratsnakes.
Inara
Malcolm


Variable Kingsnake.
Raithe

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I'd love to see some pics of your King (I just love Kings) and Mandarin rats. Sorry if I missed them somewhere already.

Are your mandarins a breeding pair?
Can you tell me a bit about your experience with mandarins?

I've got a few on my wishlist ahead of a Mandarin rat, but that's quite possibly my next colubrid if I don't run out of space.

Thanks in advance!!!

Oh, I also forgot to add my Trans Pecos ratsnakes to the list, it looks like. Orlando and Echo, both Silver Blondes. Great species!

Okay Mandarins. Love them, calmest, most handleable of all our Asian ratsnakes. Closest to their New World cousins in temperament. Husbandry is difficult to pin down, half the keepers with caresheets treat them like the Oreocryptophis species, the rest more like a typical North American colubrid. That confused the heck out of me until I researched their range in the wild, which is huge and varies a ton in temps and humidity. I'm guessing various keepers' success with different methods depended on where their imports were collected from. So I suggest questioning whoever you get one from as to how they keep theirs and following with what's working for them.

Ours are a male and a female but though I've tried these last three years, they won't breed for me. I'm as sure as I can be that they are sexed right and the male always gives it a go ... but no eggs. I can tell they are different localities and am wondering if that has anything to do with it but I haven't heard from anyone else about any comparability issues breeding ones from widely separated parts of their range. I have no background info on them, as we lucked into them at a local-ish Expo that usually never has anything that interesting there. Found Inara first at a reptile petstore vendor when the boss let one of the employees be a little more wild and crazy on their ordering. She was a 13 gram hatchling. Malcolm was found next year at a different, pet store type, vendor to the same show. He was a sub adult at the time.

Here is Inara, she has a lot more red on her and is a fair amount smaller than Malcolm.

https://i.imgur.com/pyVfdMvl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xapZ6AKl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Qja4QSol.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Y8T83GQl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I1MLvpJl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HxR6rdil.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/XCqxqyHl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FEJT0rSl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Gde7axgl.jpg

Malcolm shortly after getting him.

https://i.imgur.com/1XU99Zpl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Gx19JA2l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3fJyobMl.jpg

Newer pictures. He's our second largest colubrid, in a tie with our adult Honduran milk.

https://i.imgur.com/QW6RcBLl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/z1o43GGl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EbcA35Yl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3s79f0rl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Q4SwC3tl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MTexC0fl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZG262Dql.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FxmaiVRl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SDeiUful.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uHwxPrSl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/42t7DIFl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yCNJsnCl.jpg

I've only had Raithe since the end of last year and he's pretty squirmy, so just have pictures from the day I brought him home. He's grown a fair amount since.

https://i.imgur.com/qCW3mkol.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/c0mqUXzl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NrmxZu3l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nzE5qGul.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1QXLEk4l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LvXRLq5l.jpg

Fabulous pictures of such adorable little noodles, you have a very amazing collection, thank you for sharing :D

Welcome to the forum! Its always great to see a new face around here, noob or not. Hope to see plenty of posts from you soon! You sure have some gorgeous snakes.:P

Ask and I shall receive!!!

Thanks a ton, charis!!!!

Those Mandarin rats are simply amazing. Just gorgeous animals.

Thanks for the info and the pics!!!