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Am looking for information on (Elaphe)quadrivirgata. Has any one got experience with this species?

I keep climicaphora, how do these compare?

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

E.quadrivirgata(Japan), E.climacophora(Japan and Kunashir) I have been kept allmost in same way. Temperature +20-28 C at day and +16-20 at night, and hibernation +8-10 C. Hibernation takes about two to three month with both of these species. E.quadrivirgata is much more nervous species than E.climacophora and usually I just left food(defrozen) in their terrarium, and it's better if you give a little bit smaller mice than to another species. That's normal for species which using a lot of frogs(or lizards) in their natural diet. Example I have been offer for young ones Polypedates leucomystax -frogs, still they eats easily pinkie mice of course.
Good reading: Koji Tanaka, Hidetoshi Ota(2002). Natural history of two colubrid snakes, Elaphe quadrivirgata and Rhabdophis tigrinus, on Yakushima Island, southwestern Japan. Amphibia-Reptilia. Vol. 23: 323-331.

-Timo Paasikunnas/Finland

Thanks. The one I just got is a female (just under three ft)Apple Green to Grenish yellow in color with dull stripes. There is a picture of it in the KS classifieds.

There is what feels like undeveloped eggs in this one. Is this large enough to produce eggs?

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

OH....Nice looking example you have...Amazing how variable these are! Are the eyes really that red?

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

This is Ivan from Exotarium
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Ivan Arinin
Tula Exotarium
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E.g. guttata Albino 2.4
E.g. guttata Oketee 2.0
E.g. guttata Hypo Oketee 1.1
E.g. guttata Albino Okeetee 2.2
E.g. guttata Ghost 2.3
E.g. guttata Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Albino Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Anerythristic 2.2
E.g. guttata Snow 2.4
E.g. guttata Creamsicle 2.1
E.g. rosacea 2.2
E.g. emoryi 2.2

E. persica black 3.4
E. persica brown 2.1
E. longissima 4.6
E. situla 3.3
E. dione 54
E. bimaculata 4.3
E. quatourlineata 10.15

E. o. obsoleta yellow 2.2
E. o. lindheimeri White Sided 2.2.
E. o. lindheomeri Leucistic 1.2
E. o. lindheimeri Black Orange 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata 1.3
E. o. quatourlineata Deckerti 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata Williamsi 1.0
E. o. rossalleni 2.2

Langaha madagascariensis 2.1.12
Cylindrophis ruffus 0.1
Enhydris plumbea 1.0