So I just spent 30 minutes or so compiling my snake wish list and I feel the need to share it, I'm sure lots of you have your own so please do the same. I'm sure I will add species to the list as I see more beautiful snake pictures. I own or have owned some of the species on this list but I have included them as I either want to own them again (and regret selling them) or want to continue keeping them/expand my group. I doubt I will ever own all of these snakes, would be one hell of a commitment and very expensive, but damn it I'll try :lol2:
I don't like the idea of keeping natrix natrix natrix, it seems pointless. They look almost identical to our species and if they get loose they will likely hybridise with our native species and set up their own populations. I know you can say this about pretty much all natrix species but we don't have a snake that looks like natrix maura or tessellata so there is no native alternative.
You've gto longissimsu on too and Elaphe Dione, which I'm trying to flog(not in any kind of hurry though.)
I suppose if Helvetica looks like N. natrix thta's fine. I think n natrix are bigger though. Worst case scenario, a foreign Grassy escapes. Just one won't have too many implications as it's at a slight disadvantage to the natives favouring other conditions.
Just looked up your thread, nice snakes but shame you live in Scotland so far away from me. I understand your point but if I remember rightly it was only a single gravid female Aesculapian ratsnake that set up a small population in the U.K.
Not at all, the longer the list the better. I'm going to add pickeringii and also Nerodia fasciata (I know its not on your list but your Nerodia species reminded me) to my list.
salmon leopard boa
sonoran hypo leopard boa
hog island boa
brazilian bcc
albino tiger super dwarf retic
motley golden child super dwarf retic
bredlis python
extreme red albino superconda hog would be nice, funny a wee worm can be more expensive than most of the others put together!
8) just current favourites really, minus a few of the boas doubt i'll ever have these!
Does anyone else find it strange that so many people want natrix natrix helvetica, yet they're as rare as hen's teeth to buy? I've been in loads of shops, I've been to Doncaster, Kempton Park and Creaks loads of times. I've even been to Hamm, yet I've never seen one for sale.
no one is selling them because no one is sure what evidence they need to prove that they're CB. People have suggested photos of giving birth, eggs, hatching etc. but really that's all just opinion. To my knowledge DEFRA have not given anyone (despite numerous people trying to get info from them) a definitive answer.
I actually find it really annoying how many people have no interest in Natrix or natricines but want grass snakes. FGS there are other Natrix species you fools :lol2: People always seem to want something just because it's native, same thing with Vipera berus (adder) there are tons of European adders that look very similar to ours but you never see them on peoples wish lists!
I wish I had kept my pied and axanthic cause I'd loved to have tried for lightning pied's would've been a good few years down the breeding line but they're my fav snake! Would also love to own either a yellow Annie or ultra ivory retic, neither of which I could realistically own cause I'm vertically challenged !
If someone were desperate to obtain a natrix helvetica, wouldn't they just pick up the 1st one they see on a riverbank?
Why pay money when you can enjoy and learn about nature into the bargain. You could make a compost heap and encourage the species and you'ld have a garden full of them. Not everything should automatically have a price.
My snake wish list is more or less made up of carpet pythons, I'd love a Irian Jaya Granite (Which seems to be top of the list), a high yellow German bloodline Jungle, Zebra Jungle, a nice clean, pure Coastal and another Bredli, all pure of course, I'm not interested in crosses.
I wouldn't mind a female green het albino burm either and maybe a royal or two:whistling2:
They're bigger than Maura and Tesselata aswell. If you came from the countryside to live in a city and were into reptiles taking 1 back home might be the same as taking a keepsake, you wonder how all this began with exotic pets anyway.
Jeffers3. The cat is another introduction of the Roman empire, as was the rabbit. Were they trying to tell us something?
Before they took cats from Egypt they used snakes to keep down infestation of rodents. They used whatever non DWA species were local and took them into their villas and grain stores etc.
The Aesculapian was kept and also used in Greek then Roman temples that worshipped the healing deity partly for the practical reason.
Good idea. I wish swaps were more of a regular thing, I would much prefer to swap some offspring than part with cash even if I was getting a less expensive snake. I'm expecting some Anery het hypo ph stripe corns mid-August that I will swap for species on my list :whistling2:
Candoia Paulsoni
Candoia Carinata Carinita
Pair of San Francisco Garters (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia)
Limburg albino rosy boa
Male Coral Albino Boa or GTP
Mine was one of Stuart's. slow to start and never really took off with the feeding. Just slowly faded away. Stuart was a great help. Shame he got rid of his as I'd've got a trio next time round.
I would quite like a rosy boa at some point but I may need a bigger home first! That is of course provided my nightmare picky feeder of a rainbow boa doesn't put me off keeping another boa. :-|
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