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South African Colubrids

paulreptiles Aug 21, 2006 09:31 AM

Hi, im new here!
I am from South Africa, Johannesburg.
I keep a few indigenous snakes as well as a few boids.

So who all of you keeps and breeds south african snakes?
Anybody import out of South Africa?

Paul
paulreptiles@gmail.com

Replies (5)

chrish Aug 21, 2006 05:43 PM

I have kept and bred housesnakes on a number of occasions and would love to find a pair of Pseudaspis. There are very few here in the US, and they are overpriced when they are available.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

rearfang Aug 21, 2006 09:10 PM

I also have bred House snakes.

I have an adult pair of African Mole snakes that I will hopefully breed this year.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

paulreptiles Aug 22, 2006 10:47 AM

Seems house snakes are the most common. Are they simply just the plain house snake? No variations such as the following?:
Spotted House snake
Olive House snake
Aurora House snake
Albino House snake

Seems Pseudaspis are extremely overpriced on the US market. We get them very often here. As well as the other few house snakes i mentioned above.

Any interest in any venomous south african snakes?

reako45 Aug 27, 2006 02:56 PM

You should check w/ the guys @ www.mfezi.com. I think they specialize in South African species. Met one of the guys from there @ the IRBA show and he was pretty cool. Good selection of herps offered.

Chatsworth, CA
reako45

jjspirko Sep 07, 2006 09:26 PM

I am really into House Snakes specificly those from South Africa

L. Capensis (cape house snakes)

Including but not limited to Zuland/Natal Phase in normals, stripes and albinos.

Transvaal Phase and I am specificly looking for animals from the Highveld. (see I do know SA)

You may want to check our Mfezi.com Donal Schultz runs tha site and is orginaly from South African and imports a ton of South African animals along with reptiles from the entire continent.

I have a blog about house snakes by the way, http://www.africanhousesnake.blogspot.com/ you might want to check out.

The African House Snake Blog

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