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I've been looking to pick one of these up for a while, and was lucky enough to find one local. He's 7ft + and has no pattern with the exception of some white on his face/chin. It was pretty cool when the guy pulled out the drawer he was in and to see this huge black snake sitting there! I expected it to be much smaller. I would love to go back and get the other half of the breeding pair, but I really don't have the ability to brumate.

He likes to hiss a little, but has been quite calm.

Anyway, I'm pretty excited to have one and have included a quick picture I took today. If anyone's had success without brumating, let me know.

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1.0 Malagasy Giant Hognose
1.1 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0 Black Milksnake
0.0.1 Blue Tongue Skink
1.0 White Lipped Python (Black phase)
0.1 Dumeril Boa
1.0 Columbian Red Tail Boa
0.1 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0 Black Pine

That's a nice looking pine. It should make a great pet whether you decide to breed it or not.

I think you can probably have success breeding black pines without a drastic temperature drop. If you can keep them in a dark place and just get the temps into the 60's for a couple months that will probably be enough.

Whatever you decide to do I'm sure you'll enjoy your first pit.
Chris

Jeez! That thing's a monster! Never seen an all black one like that! Beautiful!

reako45

I agree with Chris. You probably don't need to do much to cool these snakes. If you placed them in a box on the floor in the winter, it would probably do the trick. There is an excellent market for their babies as well.

Tim

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