>>Terry, I absolutely love that hypo. You mentioned it was posted a year ago but I am wondering if you are talking about YOU. Is that beauty yours? I would love to see how it played out in F1 or F2.

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I tried to get that snake, but the price was too high for my budget at the time. I believe it was in the U. S. about a year, or two, ago, but I'm not sure what ever happened to it. I think it originally came from a dealer in Hong Kong and I couldn't get it then either, because I'm not set up for importing and would need help with that. Maybe after I move to AZ in two yrs. I'll have the time and airport access.



>>I already have access to indo species such as Gonyosoma but would love to get into some of the other species from places like Taiwan and such. I also want to try to do work with Korean species and if I work it right, hope to try to get approval to export some also. The money is not really worth the effort (of trying to get permission to do so) but I wouldn't want to do it for the money anyway. Just like to see some species with exact locality make it to the people who can do something constructive and mantain the integrity of what they are. Time will tell.

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>>Thanks for the great pic.

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>>Don



Don, you're welcome on the pic. I just hope the folks I borrowed it from don't mind.



I hope you are able to make some contacts with the right people to be able to secure some of these cool snakes. Some areas of Asia have not been collected much at all and there are some savy herpers in the U. S. and Europe that likely would love to work with some locality animals. We rarely ever see anyone from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, etc, post here on this forum. There are many ratsnakes and other types of snakes in these places with distinct species or subspecies. Taiwan has it's own subspecies of mandarina, taeniura, porphyracea, and carinata, for instance. Island localities are great and the Far East has a tons of unique islands.



I hope you can get into some new ratsnake species. Maybe more folks will get interested in collecting for the hobby in the Orient in the future, instead of just collecting for the food markets. Maybe it will take some Westerners who have enough interest, resources, and charisma to do it. Then it will also take some folks like you to keep them and export them, and some on this end to be the importers. Who knows. It's fun to talk about the possibilities anyway.



Take care....TC

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