Wild Caught adults are hit and miss. If you have the experience and patience you can acclimate them. The proof is in the many morphs out there that originated from wild caught adults. Now wild caught babies are easier to acclimate and you can have much better success with them. Captive hatched babies are usually fine to if you get them the first couple of weeks they start to hatch. Later in the season you will get all the CH babies that have been held in dirty crowded conditions with no water or food for weeks. Not good.



If you get eggs from a wild caught Mom they should be just fine. No more or less mean than babies from a captive bred mom. What's cool is you don't know what might hatch. You may get pastels or something better.



Last April I bought 3 wild caught adult Pastel females. They were treated with panacur and flagyl. Two began pounding rats right off the back. The third I sold and don't know how she turned out. Here's one of the wild caught female Pastels I bought last April... she's gravid! Bred by a ghost... the other one has been bred too and I am expecting her to ovulate soon.





Good Luck,

Oz
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