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Posted by: rick gordon at Wed Aug 25 12:27:50 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rick gordon ]  
   

They are egg layers, and are bred infrequently in captivity. They are short lived and don't adapt well to captivity. I think those are the main reasons they aren't bred more often. That and there isn't a finnacial insentive, since they are so cheap. I don't know what the statisitics are on them, but from my experience most people don't keep them alive for more then a year or two, although they can live up to six years. When I used to work in a pet store, I noticed that people who purchased them, lost them during the winter months when they stopped feeding. Thats why I think that they do significantly better when overwintered every year. They don't maintain a lot of body fat and have strong instincts to stop feeding during the winter and when the temperatures are maintained high, they can't lower their metabolism sufficiently enough to last the winter months. Thats my theory anyway. I also believe that they eat a wider variety of insects and spiders in the wild and a diet of crickets just doesn't cut it for very long. Here a link to a site with more information, good luck, also, you might try the small snake forum for better advice.
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  • Got some baby vine snakes at the sac show - kungfu2811, Tue Aug 10 22:21:17 2004
    • pic - kungfu2811, Tue Aug 10 23:07:30 2004 image in post
      • RE: pic - rick gordon, Fri Aug 13 12:30:28 2004
        • RE: pic - corallus1, Mon Aug 16 14:05:19 2004
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            • RE: pic - rick gordon, Mon Aug 23 11:47:18 2004
              • RE: pic - kungfu2811, Mon Aug 23 23:55:04 2004
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