I bought 20 CH females from Cypress Creek this spring and all but three of them have been problem free. Of the three that were problemmatic, all were runts and never fed on their own. I have done this before and I figured if I came out with only 25% losses then I was in good shape. I know some of you will get on me with the idea of acceptable losses, but the fact of the matter is that these babies have less than a 10% survival rate in the wild to get to one year of age, I have read numbers as low as 1%. If you know what you are doing and you get animals a short time after hatching and set them up individually in good clean caging that is properly set up for temperatures and humidity, then you don't have many problems.



If you are going to go the CH route, know who you are buying from and make sure and get references.
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1.21 ball pythons

1 speckled kingsnake

1 snapping turtle

1.0 argentine horned frog

1.1 English Bulldogs

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• IMPORTS ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THAN CAPTIVE BRED - jmartin104, Wed Aug 3 11:02:27 2005
• RE: IMPORTS ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THAN CAPTIVE BRED - dumje, Wed Aug 3 11:26:53 2005
• Here is my real life story about my imports! - mnewsome, Wed Aug 3 11:55:20 2005
• WAIT WAIT WAIT - RaulGomez, Wed Aug 3 13:00:37 2005
• RE: IMPORTS ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THAN CAPTIVE BRED - TomBarnhart, Wed Aug 3 14:45:03 2005
• All depends on where/who you get them from..... - nita, Wed Aug 3 13:13:56 2005
• depends - herphobbyist, Wed Aug 3 14:54:01 2005
• RE: depends - toshamc, Wed Aug 3 15:12:34 2005
• RE: depends - herphobbyist, Wed Aug 3 15:57:11 2005
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• Quig - herphobbyist, Wed Aug 3 22:56:46 2005
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• The source is the number one thing - coyotethug, Wed Aug 3 20:09:14 2005