Hello everyone, Thanks to everyone who replied to my long post earlier, I have another question for you guys, not too long though. My boyfriend and I saw some of the Tri color hoggies from South America featured in one of the recent Reptiles magazines. We also saw some for sale at our yearly reptile show and asked the vendor what he thought or knew what the toxicity is compared to the western. He said he didn't know and didn't want to find out (which is understandable). I have no wish to own this snake, but I just thought someone out there would possibly know. I know that everyone would react to it in a different way, but generally speaking, what is the difference/similarity?
Thanks!
Susan
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Tri Color Toxicity
pebbles832
Dec 06, 2004 10:24 AM
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Colchicine
Dec 08, 2004 11:49 PM
I will take a shot at answering your question, although I don't have any real answers. Heterodon and Lystrophis are not very closely related. So I would be skeptical to group them together as far as toxicity of venom.
I do not recall anybody reporting the effects of a tricolor bite on this forum, and I am willing to speculate that it probably is not as bad as any other colubrid. As with Heterodon, I would not let it be a determining factor if I wanted to pursue a captive breeding project with them.
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