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Southern Hognose-normal

Oxyrhopus May 21, 2005 10:21 PM

Here is one of my gals.

Dan

Replies (9)

Oxyrhopus May 21, 2005 10:21 PM

Here is a red specimen.

Dan

Oxyrhopus May 21, 2005 10:22 PM

This one gets redder with age.

Dan

A.C. May 22, 2005 06:52 AM

I have one similar but not as vibrant as yours. She's an '03 who will breed next year.
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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

Oxyrhopus May 22, 2005 09:23 AM

Yea, I own her. She was a rescue from someone who caught a gravid female and could not get the babies to feed and she was literally on on deaths door when I received her as a hatchling that never fed. She was very skinny with folds of skin, soft and could not even move much. I force fed her a frog leg and she started to come around and then she eventually took to scented pinks and now she takes hoppers and small mice like candy. Odd thing is that I tried to vary her diet recently as she has been on a strict diet of rodents for almost two years. I offered her hog live frogs and toads just a couple weeks ago and she refused them all since she is so conditioned to eating rodents. Perhaps if I left the frogs and toads in there a while and starved her, she would change her condition, but its not worth stressing her at this point. I need a good red male for sure to keep these bright colors going.

A.C. May 23, 2005 09:09 AM

Are you going to produce any? Maybe we could trade some offspring?

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

Oxyrhopus May 23, 2005 01:46 PM

Yea its on my list of the several species I need to pair up and will try to breed it in 06 and for sure in 07. I hope to locate a nice male soon.

Dan

crimsonking May 24, 2005 09:05 PM

...that I just paired up last week.
:Mark
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A.C. May 25, 2005 10:48 AM

great looking simus, Mark. Looks like a nice high contrast animal. How are you '04 babies? I have 2.2 left and they are all thriving.

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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

crimsonking May 25, 2005 12:31 PM

Doing just fine on pinks.
:Mark

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