Not all of us are breeders. Some of us just really like snakes.

[kvanwingerden]

Pretty soon I'm going to need a rack.


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[KitaCat]

Nothing wrong with that at all. Beautiful snakes you have!

[John1982]

I kept reptiles for some 20 years with absolutely no interest in breeding. It's a, relatively recent, developing interest of mine and definitely not for everyone. Great looking animals you have there!

[AKA Dave]

Nothing wrong with that at all! Love the big one in the middle. Great colors.

Dave

[distaff]

Breeding to sell for pets doesn't interest me. I trust no one.

I can envision an eventual interest in breeding animals that are at risk for loss the natural world. The Timber Rattlesnake has a terrible fungus problem in the wild. Others are loosing habitat. The Eastern Indigo Drymarchon couperi already has an organized captive breeding program for field release. The Hog Island boa is now mostly if not entirely captive kept.

HerpNation Radio had a good program with a guy who works with the very hard to breed Morelia boeleni (spell?) python. Again, conservation. An animal that beautiful is going to get over harvested out of the wild.

Another similar case is the Oenpelli python. Pretty snake in itself, but the purported assoc. with mystical creator "Rainbow python" of the Aborigines makes it culturally significant. A guy named Gavin Bedford is working with those. I became intrigued with his work when I saw a pic of one of the babies he bred. It looks a lot like the small adult Antaresias (spell?). Same proportions, shaped head, general coloring, and spotting...same buggy eyes. I have seen no rainbow on any pic of the Oenpelli like you can see on some locality boas, or the Rainbow boa, where the surface shimmer colors are intense and irridescent, but the Oenpelli is reported to have a distinct and remarkable silver "glow" at night. The ghost morph of the Children's pythons also does this at night (Snakebytes vid??, IIRC, this a snake at the Peter Birch facility in AU). Might make a good marketing angle - if you can't afford the mythic creator Oenpelli, you can get nearly the same in the little Childrenii morph.

...anyway long winded answer.
Happy breeding.

[Reinz]

Nice snakes you have there!

I have no interest in taking on breeding these snakes either. But then interests evolve, and it wasn't that long ago really that I no interest in snakes at all!

[MidSouthMorphs]

And most of us breeders really really love snakes as well. For me, seeing the babies come out of the egg is better than Unboxing one. But you do have some Beth pretty snakes, thanks for sharing.

[kvanwingerden]

Sorry everyone, wasn't trying to bash those of you who breed!


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[Aercadia]

No need to apologize! :) There was absolutely nothing offensive about the words or tone. Breeders, collectors, enthusiasts, and all - we're happy to have 'em all here!

You've got some handsome snakes there! Any plans to collect more in the future?

[bcr229]

Aw c'mon, pippers are just CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!

But I'm also finding that as my reptile hobby "matures" I'm becoming less interested in breeding common species like ball pythons, and more interested in the snake species or locality boas whose wild populations are at risk.

I was also unaware of the program to release CB eastern indigoes to the wild, I will have to check in to that.