My snakes could well be captive born from imports. From my reading on the net, it appears that some Costa Rican zoos keep Pseustes so perhaps they could have been from a source like that. Nonetheless they were healthy and well cared for when I received them. It would be very interesting to get some Pseustes from parents that were captive bred though. I think SoLAs breeding of these snakes is very important for starting a viable captive bred stock of Pseustes in the USA. I hope to take a shot at breeding mine when they are big enough. Do you know how big or old these snakes have to be before you can safely try breeding them?

You certainly have a gorgeous Pseustes yourself. How many Pseustes do you have? I will try to post a pic of my Pseustes in the next few weeks. "Attacking" my snakes with a prey item on the tongs sounds interesting. My snakes are just mean enough that that might work... I have also read from posts about Pseustes that coating the mouse with chicken broth or scenting with a chicken part might work. I will be trying those approcahes as well. As for myself, I have 1.1 Bamboo rat snakes, and an unsexed green tree python hatchling. All of these guys were captive born. I lived in Chicago from 2005 to 2008. Nice town. I am in the Maryland area now.

What other kinds of South American Colubrids do you keep? Cribos?

Malcolm

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