If they weren't such a big, active species, I might consider keeping some radiateds as I have always like their looks too - but my snake room is pretty small, and I've had to downsize my collection a bit already. I may try some trinkets some time - they are also Coelognathus snakes, which are considered one of the Old World rat-racer genera. Other rat-racer genera are Orthriophis, Gonyosoma, Rhynchophis, and Zamenis.

I keep some Chinese beauties (Orthriophis taeniurus taeniurus), which I like a lot - very fast, whippy snakes like racers - but also typical constrictors like ratsnakes. This subspecies of beauty has major potential in the morph hobby /market, due to its high number of mutations, and the potential for double or triple homozygotes...

I also am keeping some young rhino rats (Rhynchophis boulengeri) - a strange and interesting rat-racer which I think are fascinating. Aside from being interesting looking, their natural history not well known or understood - go through an interesting ontogenetic change from gray / brown to green or blue / green. The babies will eat fish in water, which suggests that they may be at least semi-aquatic but also arboreal, at least later in life. I plan to keep at least one of my rhinos in a planted / naturalistic terrarium when it is a little bigger. Do you have any pics of your radiated in its setup?
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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• Anyone Else Dare Radiateds? - Ameron, Sat Aug 20 05:34:24 2011
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