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Years ago i caught a beautiful redphase eastern hog. I let him go.. but i would like to get another. Anyone know of eastern breeders??

thanks

Mike
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My herps..
0.0.9 amel hatchling corns
1.1 reverse okeetees
1.0 normal corn
1.0 Anery
1.2 Amel corn
0.1 Jasper county Okettee
2.0 American alligator
0.1 Copperhead
0.0.2 Timber rattlesnakes
2.3 black rat snakes
1.1 Eastern box turtles
0.1 shtc leopard Gecko
0.1 Red tal boa

>>Years ago i caught a beautiful redphase eastern hog. I let him go.. but i would like to get another. Anyone know of eastern breeders??
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>>thanks
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>>Mike

Captive bred are few and far between. Most easterns for sale are either wild caught or the captive hatched (not captive bred) offspring of wild caught females. The diet is the key factor with them. It's nearly impossible to find/buy enough toads to keep just one snake going for a year let alone a breeding colony. So until you have easterns eating an easy to supply food source (i.e. rodents), there is not as much demand for them to put pressure on people to actually work at captive breeding. Much easier to go catch a gravid female from the wild and keep the eggs and then work on converting the hatchlings (or sell them fresh out of the egg to an owner who then has to work on converting it). It takes time trying to acclimate wild caughts and convert them to a rodent diet and then hope to get them to breed. I think now that the demand for easterns has been perking up within the past couple years due to more people succeeding on getting hatchling easterns over to an all rodent diet, more people are going to have better success at producing captive bred stock.

I have a nice all black female (3 years old) and a high yellow male and a high red male (both soon to be 1 year old). I hope to be able to breed them next year (or the year after if the males don't reach breeding size). The female was raised from the start on rodents with little difficulty. The yellow is still giving me some trouble. The red male is willingly eating mice but they have to be scented. He is finally starting to take some unscented so I expect his appetite will kick in high gear soon. I figure the red male will be the first of the two to be ready to breed to my adult female...and if all goes well that would be next year lol. I also had a red female hatchling but she didn't make it through the winter.

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PHWyvern

This guy has some nice looking easterns. You may need to E-mail him for availability.

www.gradeareptiles.com/

I have two wild caught red phase easterns. I just got one of them to eat two rat pinkies covered in toad blood and brains on the first try. The other one is real young and is only eating frogs and toads, with the occasional cricket.

Thanks.
I have contacted Grade A. He said they will have em in AUG, The eastern I had would not take mice in the begining. With a little work..mainly tricking her, i would switch the toad with a small rat pup when she went for it. I got her interested in scented, but she would never take em on her on. I really REALLY wish i would have kept her. Still dont know why i let her go. I guess she was more dark pumpkin orange than red. Really hard to describe. But i have never seen another like her. I had a freind call me.. said he had a cobra cornered. I knew instantly what he had caught when he described her to me. I live in NC. And till this day i have never found another. I go field herping alot.. i check the obvious sandy area were toads are abundunt...

thanks all

Mike
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My herps..
0.0.9 amel hatchling corns
1.1 reverse okeetees
1.0 normal corn
1.0 Anery
1.2 Amel corn
0.1 Jasper county Okettee
2.0 American alligator
0.1 Copperhead
0.0.2 Timber rattlesnakes
2.3 black rat snakes
1.1 Eastern box turtles
0.1 shtc leopard Gecko
0.1 Red tal boa

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

I produce some real red ones. Hopefully I will be able to fill all requests.

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

WOW! That first one would be nice!!! Be sure to email me when they are available!
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My herps..
0.0.9 amel hatchling corns
1.1 reverse okeetees
1.0 normal corn
1.0 Anery
1.2 Amel corn
0.1 Jasper county Okettee
2.0 American alligator
0.1 Copperhead
0.0.2 Timber rattlesnakes
2.3 black rat snakes
1.1 Eastern box turtles
0.1 shtc leopard Gecko
0.1 Red tal boa