Hamm prices (March 2007)

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by SCI

Is a brown house not Lamprophis fuliginosus.

Boaedon is an older genus name for the House Snake species - it was changed to Lamprophis in 1983.

However, Epicrates cenchria maurus is as far as I knew the Colombian rainbow boa - Argentinians are E.c. alvarezi.

I like scientific binomial names.

If I ask someone for an "African House Snake" I could get one of fourteen different species (and only one of those would be fertile with my existing female.)

If I ask for a Lamprophis fuliginosus... I'll get what I'm looking for, no matter who in the world I ask and what language they speak. Better still if I know that some folk are still using "Boaedon" to refer to these animals.

[bosshogg]

Phelsuma mad

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

i dont know piss all about scientific names, i choose not to learn..

You might find that a difficult one when you come to breed your Lamprophis animals... because not all African House Snakes are Lamprophis fuliginosus - and unlike the North American colubrids, a Lamprophis fuliginosus is not cross-fertile with the very similar-looking Lamprophis capensis let alone any of the other House Snake species

North American rat snakes - Pantherophis genus animals - are very forgiving when it comes to hybridisation, even so much as allowing for cross-genus hybrids (Lampropeltis and Pituophis for example). The Housies aren't.

[jaysnakeman]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

to be honest scientific names get on my tits.. what the point? if its a bloody corn snake then thats what it is.. end of

didnt we have a conversation like this on the bus back from hamm?

[cornmorphs]

yeah probably mate lol..

i know ssthisto, just to make things harder eh.

[SCI]

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

You might find that a difficult one when you come to breed your Lamprophis animals... because not all African House Snakes are Lamprophis fuliginosus - and unlike the North American colubrids, a Lamprophis fuliginosus is not cross-fertile with the very similar-looking Lamprophis capensis let alone any of the other House Snake species

North American rat snakes - Pantherophis genus animals - are very forgiving when it comes to hybridisation, even so much as allowing for cross-genus hybrids (Lampropeltis and Pituophis for example). The Housies aren't.

Very true mate,lucky I looked into this before
I got into house snakes.

[cornmorphs]

ah it wont be a problem.. i dont have anything that i cant breed together yet, so no problem.. and i will only be buying in pairs anyway, i just need to make sure i am selling them correctly.. but i have plenty of time. i have kept house snakes for 14 years or so, so its not like i know nothing really, its just the breeding and scientfic i'll need to look at, not that are too hard to breed.

[SCI]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

yeah probably mate lol..

i know ssthisto, just to make things harder eh.

No mate it is true and any good book I've read
says the same.If you don't know the species you'll
probably only find out though breeding(or not).

[cornmorphs]

Originally Posted by SCI

No mate it is true and any good book I've read
says the same.If you don't know the species you'll
probably only find out though breeding(or not).

i wont be looking at buying anything as an odd snake anyway, so thats not likely to happen.
a little research will be ok, its nothing like corns (yet lol), so i'll get the hang of it in no time..
i have years anyway, my biggest female 'may' be ready in a year, but i wont have a male ready, so got time on my hands for it,.

[SCI]

Originally Posted by cornmorphs

ah it wont be a problem.. i dont have anything that i cant breed together yet, so no problem.. and i will only be buying in pairs anyway, i just need to make sure i am selling them correctly.. but i have plenty of time. i have kept house snakes for 14 years or so, so its not like i know nothing really, its just the breeding and scientfic i'll need to look at, not that are too hard to breed.

There just the same as corns,apart from
species identification of course.