has anyone every come across a captive breeding program for scarlet snakes(cemophora coccinea)? they are really pretty and i would have thought hey would be popular on the trade. you dont really hear to much about them anywhere though. thanks.
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scarlet snake breeding?
kjn
Jun 22, 2006 07:54 PM
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billysbrown
Jun 23, 2006 12:26 PM
My sense is that information on how to keep these guys alive (esp feeding them) is just getting dispersed, and that not many people have done a good enough job keeping them to try breeding them, but that should change over the next couple years as more people get used to feeding them egg and egg-scented prey items. I've been seeing these for sale quite a bit now, so the more people that work with them, the more information should become available.
I keep two - a pair that I would like to breed next season, so I hope to have some comments after that.
I also look forward to Dan's comments, since he has a heck of a lot more experience with these than I do.
Cheers,
Billy
Oxyrhopus
Jun 23, 2006 09:24 PM
Yea, they are not common because they have a special diet and perhaps need more research into their behaviors and housings etc to make them more attractive to buyers. I do know that I had a few pairs together and noticed the larger male biting the female on the neck and recently put a female in with a bunch of males and she was also bitten on the neck so perhaps she was bred? In any case, I did read an article in a reptiles magazine from some fellow who hatched a clutch and raised the babies on chicken egg mix and he did good with them. Another study done by a university starved them of water and dropped them in a glass jar of water and egg and they sustained themselves for a few years by drinking the water/egg slop. In any case, their habitat is being dozed over so the more we can learn about them now, the more we can contribute to saving them in the future.
Dan
billysbrown
Jun 26, 2006 08:44 AM
That's a good point there. We really have nothing new to learn about husbandry of kings, milks, garters, etc., but with scarlets and other really unusual snakes with very little written about them, you might have a chance to actually learn something no one knows.
Billy
