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This is the kind of stuff they are putting into peoples heads, its all about ratings I guess. Supersnake, what a crock!
SEND IN YOUR LETTERS!!!! DUE JANUARY, 20TH, LAST DAY TO OVER NIGHT THEM IS TUESDAY THE 19TH.
The Supersnake

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Brian Grosart
foreverconstrictors@hotmail.com

sorry link doesn't work here is the text off the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson AZ.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fears of a new "supersnake" emerging in the Everglades grew this week during a hunt to track South Florida's invasive python population.
A three-day, state-coordinated hunt that started Tuesday had, by Wednesday, netted at least five African rock pythons —including a 14-foot-long female — in a targeted area in Miami-Dade County.
Those findings add to concerns that the rock python is a new breeding population in the Everglades and not just the result of a few overgrown pets released into the wild, according to the South Florida Water Management District.
In addition, state environmental officials worry that the rock python could breed with the Burmese python, which already has an established foothold in the Everglades. That could lead to a new "supersnake," said George Horne, the water district's deputy executive director.
In Africa, the rock python eats everything from goats to crocodiles. There have been cases of the snakes killing children.
"They are bigger and meaner than the Burmese python. It's not good news," said Deborah Drum, deputy director of the district's restoration sciences department.
The state estimates that thousands of Burmese pythons have spread through the Everglades.
The string of unusually low temperatures in South Florida flushed more of the snakes out of the wild and onto flood-control levees.
Three of the African rock pythons found this week were captured, and two got away. One had a circumference of 31 inches. Another was bearing eggs.
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Brian Grosart
foreverconstrictors@hotmail.com

Are there any out there??? Certainly the media would be all over this with pics and video included. Anybody besides someone who will benefit with millions of grant dollars on the hunt?
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Matt Lerer
Ghi Reptiles

Whats even more disheartening is the comments left by people...man there are some ignorant people out there

There certainly are. I read those comments, and one stuck with me, cause it shows the discrimination that snake owners are subjected to, just because they own certain species snakes

Chrissy
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1.0 Ball Python-Siegfried
1.0 BRB-Pedro
1.0 Blair's Phase GrayBanded Kingsnake-Elvis
0.1 Paradox Albino Sand Boa-Cleo
2.2 Dodoma's
0.1 pug mix

31 inches around??????????? Bearing eggs?????? They're lucky if they even knew what they were looking at!

I HAVE Bred these combo before!

Fertility is LOW!!!! You get lots of Sterile eggs....generally. The sperm retention seems to be low. I think this means that the female snake does not store sperm from this type of breeding well for extended periods. Sperm dies quicker(my guess) when doing such hybrids. There seems to be a need for a breeding close to ovulation to make this one work well.

It is generally a bit of work to even get these two species to breed one another!!!

The resulting snakes look like what you would expect. They did not have a "super" gene....they did not grow any quicker in fact they seemed to be neurotic and stunted and did not eat as well as a pure strain.

THis type of breeding also seems to further fertility issues when these animals breed back to themselves. ZERO FERTILITY!!! This combo should NOT BE A WORRY!!!!!!!

OUT OF HAND!!

Kevin McCurley
NERD

>>This is the kind of stuff they are putting into peoples heads, its all about ratings I guess. Supersnake, what a crock!
>>SEND IN YOUR LETTERS!!!! DUE JANUARY, 20TH, LAST DAY TO OVER NIGHT THEM IS TUESDAY THE 19TH.
>>The Supersnake
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>>Brian Grosart
>>foreverconstrictors@hotmail.com
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Yeah Like I said Kevin, they sacrifice good science for their ratings. they would much rather put a snake on the media chopping block, than the dog attack a couple weeks ago. sad sad sad. Thank you Kevin for extremely wonderful wealth of knowledge, and input on this article!
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Brian Grosart
foreverconstrictors@hotmail.com

See page 4 on left hand side. As stated above the combination results in the exact opposite of a super snake.
"super snake scenario"

Got any photos of these stunted neurotic little beasties?