" Temps, rainfall, and the location of their "burrows" have a lot to do with it. Just my opinion, of course "

I was definitely to general Its important to understand the basic parameters of the animals natural life. Then try to work around that . How important depends .No matter you can only reproduce a narrow portion of this environment. Kind of. Play with the temps humidity. Lighting.

I was looking at Spateros page today very detailed husbandry. 14 yrs exp. went to the mountains , groups both CB and WC . Offspring 0 .

Paul Miles none of the above tried once hatched out 5. A good friend of mine imported a typically skinny group . In his own words " I take care of them like I think pythons should be taken care of. " Animals looked and were doing great sold them to a world renowned python breeder. Started Chilling them mountain stuff. Shortly after Dirt nap. Bob Clark Pretty decent python guy mid eighty's attempt ......... no, I could go on .

I don't feel it's a lack of natural history knowledge it's a lack of founder animals. Many mountain snakes don't travel well ...Mandarins rats , Hundred flower , Feas vipers. Nothing easy about any of these. Somebody has a little success everyone try's to imitate that and disregards the multitude of failures involving the same strategies. Could be the right strategy just not the right animals .

I don't think boelens are any tougher to work with then Mandarin rats . Get a hundred import mandarins and a hundred boelens and you'll get the same result. Completely sucks. By virtue of numbers and price enough people were able to work with enough Mandarins to get them over the CB hump. Boelens no numbers and to costly to think outside the box. Pressure.

I bet the guys that are slow raising females from hatchlings will have far better success. Not strategy the animals will be the difference.

Ernie Eison
Westwood Acres Reptile Farm Inc.

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