I have to agree especially with the last part of your post. I'm not in any way saying that it isn't important to know what the animal is, but does anyone ever sit back and hold one of their animals and try to recapture that same feeling we all had when we were children. The aw and splendor of holding such a mysterious and majestic animal deeply affected me as a youth and that is why I still keep snakes today. To be honest, I'm leaning more to breeding less and enjoying more. I'm just getting wore out on the feeling that its a business. Don't get me wrong I LOVE baby season. Especially with project pairings. it is too much fun to see something nice coming out of the egg. I do not see dollar signs when I see something cool hatch out, ask anyone that knows me. Anything that is over the top nice that I've ever hatched I still have! (It drives my wife nuts! She says she wants new carpet!)



Now to comment on the topic of this thread. I don't have nor have I ever had ruthveni. I don't know much about them other than I have seen specimens at several different zoo's and not a single one of them looked like the other. I have seen them at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita Kansas, Fort Worth Zoo, Omaha Zoo, and the small zoo in Carlsbad New Mexico (sorry but the name escapes me.)



I am impressed and happy to see how civil and well informed this thread has been.
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Jeremy Pierce

Shade Tree Exotics

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