Gaboon vipers

[Crotalids]

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

Realised I didn't put the link lol.

[Crotalids]

This thread is lacking pics.

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

[jason_ladouceur]

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

Realised I didn't put the link lol.

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.

[Valentine Pirate]

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

[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.


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.

[Crotalids]

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.


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.

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.

[jason_ladouceur]

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.

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.

[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.

[Crotalids]

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.

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!

[cory9oh4]

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