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one of my favorite snake species...Barred spitting cobra/zebra spitter Naja nigricollis nigricincta
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Chad Bachman

The name bachman sounds familiar where you at the greenville show? My real names doug i picked up a pair of red spitters from Tom, is anyone breeding nigricincta? I'd love to have those in my collection.

I was not at the Greenville show.

I've only ever seen 1.1 nigricincta in person, but there have been a few sold in the US in the last couple of years. I was emailing a guy in S. Africa a while back, and he is going to try breeding them in the near future, so hopefully we'll see more in the next year or so (if he can export the babies). I accidentally deleted the guys email and lost contact with him, duh...LOL
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Chad Bachman

Hi All,

I have a small group of these snakes and should have available some unrelated babies in 2005. It is now posssible to export cb snakes from SA and i will be sending a few babies to friends in europe and some to usa, depending on how many i have. This species is quite calm and not as banshee crazy as pallida!

If all goes well then i might produce N. n. woodi in 2006.

Here some pics:

a large female from Otjiwarango, Namibia

A young male from near Windhoek, Namibia

Enjoy

Thanks

Craig

You lucky dog you!! How ya doing man? Long time. Those are amazeing looking snakes! I am envious. I am also now very fimilar with the what you mentioned about pallida!!! Ive got 4 of the nutts and they are all super soakers!!! Combine this with their runny nature and you have one heck of a hand full!!! Whoever said these were the least dangerous of the naja?

So are you still keeping Aspidelaps? After all of this time I have still only managed to get one baby!!! I had two good eggs but one of the babies was still born . Going to try again this year!!

One last thing on Aspidelaps. I have a pair of scutatus in which the male is your typical dark red/liver color while the female is salmon or almost pink. I have noticed that the male is much more heavily keeled then the female. Is there any variation between the sexes similar to this? My female also has alot of white on her head and has always reminded me of the other ssp.

Well man, good to see ya around.

All the best,
J

Hi Jeremy,

I am very well thankyou, I trust you are well? I stopped posting on these forums maybe 3-4 years ago for my own reasons. Gone are those days when the shhrs was new, and venemoids virtually were unheard of and filthy always had a funny post. I still check in now and then to browse the posts and remember reading about you trials and tribulations with the corals.

How was it raising that one baby, what did it start feeding on? any problems?

Anyway about the keeled scales story - i am not too sure but i do think the males are a bit rougher than the females. Also IMO the intermedius is generally a rougher ssp. than the redder scutatus cousins, who seem a bit smoother.

I still have those same two intermedius from ages ago. The male must be pushing around 12 years. He needs viagra these days as he just cant get it up anymore....he he I seriously need new blood in the intermedius department. I also recently got a nice trio on infuscatus, which i hope to get little cutey's from next year.

Those red spitters are crazy - especially at feed time (im sure they can almost fly). i am always very weary. I have seen them go so crazy that when i throw a mouse in they frantically try to find it using the inside of their mouth that they end up biting cage furniture and even the rumpled newspaper. Not a snake for the beginner!! certainly dangerous even if they are not the most toxic! But ultra beautiful.

Take it easy

Craig

Good luck with them, they're beautiful. N. n. woodi is another one I'm very interested in getting.
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Chad Bachman

Thanks Chad,

I will post here if and when that hatching day happens. Babies must be so cute!!

Do you know of any woodi in USA collections? (zoos?) I know of less than six in german collections!

Cheers

Craig

Years ago (maybe 14-15 years) there were some (woodi) in the US, but I have not seen or heard of any since then.

Good luck with breeding them, and I look forward to seeing some pics of the babies if you get 'em.
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Chad Bachman

n/p

I juuuust purchased a small adult pair last week. Don't worry Chad, I already got you on the list. Not a very easy to find.

Sean P.

Keep me posted.
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Chad Bachman

carolina reptile has one ,Ive seen it,and a pic is on thier website,Ill try to post it later.there is also one on ks photo page.

Here is one that I used to own, the picture was posted on the elapid forum by someone who tried to claim it was theirs.
Kevin