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Hi all,

As promised...

Little guy with a BIG attitude...

Chewing away on my mini hook

After forcefeeding all of them for a while (every 3-4 days a mousetail) they now recognize it as food. This one is taking parts of a mouse tail on its own

Enjoy

Iwan

Utterly fantastic shots!! Great job with the textilis!!

Al
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Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.

Great pics, Iwan! Glad they're doing well!

Bill Huseth

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Absolutely incredible little snakes! I've been watching your posts since you initially posted about them hatching, and I'm extremely happy for you that you got them beginning to eat on their own. I hope they all just take off from here. Hard to imagine such a tiny worm being so dangerous eh?
-Chance
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Chance Duncan
1.1 Retics (1.0 Tiger Het, 0.1 Dark Lavender)
1.1 Olive Pythons
1.1 Woma Pythons
1.1 Ball Pythons (Het Albino)
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Iwan;

I've been back a few times...I just can't help looking at the little beastie!

Great show!

Al
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Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.

Hi Al,

Thanks for the reply - glad you like the pics

Take care,

Iwan

Awsome!! They bite anything!!
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Chad Bachman

Hi Iwan,

Congrats on the breeding - and the photos. One slight point that I'd like to make though is that I don't really think that the species you have is actually textilis sensu stricto. I believe that textilis is a complex of species, and although I am unable to assign which population of Pseudonaja you have there, I am certain that it is not textilis srictly speaking. There are a number of reasons why I say this, and I would be happy to pass them on to you if you like. Where did the parents come from? Should they have come from northern Australia, I recommend that you are very cautious indeed with them! Another side issue concerns the time that the neonates remained within the egg once slitting of the shell had occurred. Did you time this by any chance?

Regards and best wishes

Richard Wells