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Posting this pic for Sighthunter.
Max

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"I may be crazy, but ya know... I can rationalize just about anything."

Cute little booger. I saw a few hatchlings in Costa Rica. Has anyone seen or worked with Psuestes? Seems like they along with Spilotes were at the front of a few serpentariums.

I am working with Pseustes. Tom Davis is the only person that I know in the States that has bred them. They are tricky to get started as hatchlings. I have some of Toms Pseustes. They are awsome.

Is anyone offering them for sale? If so do you know what the going price for these guys are? I saw a bunch in Costa Rica and I love the variation on the colors. They seem pretty mellow and from what I heard they are pretty easy to care for.

Since this is the indigo forum there is a population of Pseustes that looks like the Blacktail Cribo, They are found in Brazil and can be viewed on a website called Colubrae. Quetzal and Monica from Reptilandia, in Costa Rica breed Pseustes and are allowed to export F2 progeny. Wild caught come in occasionally through importers but the few I have been tracking haven’t done well. They are cool since they grow longer than Cribos as do Spilotes. The population of Spilotes that I am working with is from the Sula Plane area of Honduras and they have a round body like Cribos. I have two adults that are over eleven feet. One is only four years old!

I talked to Quetzal and Monica about Psuestes when I was there and they said they haven't quite got all the paperwork in order to export them just yet. They did say soon. What would you think the going rate for CB stock would be?

The gauge I use for price is; color quality, availability of healthy breeding stock, difficulty in switching offspring to mice and demand for offspring. I would gauge them to be around $300 for captive hatched, $125 for imported wild caught and $800 for exceptional specimens but this is mere speculation. There personality is about like a Ratsnake where the Spilotes are like Coachwhips. There is a park in Costa Rica that has their paperwork in order if you E-mail me I will look for it.

Is that one of the babies produced from the female Don Bordner had on loan?

Best regards,

Jeff
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Jeff Snodgres
University of Arkansas
snodgresjeffreys@uams.edu
501.603.1947

I actualy traded some Yellowtail youngsters along with promised offspring from the breeding to Don. I produced eight youngsters four of which look like the picture on line the other four are buisy looking bandeds.

You certainly produced some phenomenal Spilotes and I look forward to future updates and photos...

Thanks for sharing,

Jeff
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Jeff Snodgres
University of Arkansas
snodgresjeffreys@uams.edu
501.603.1947

Thank you for the compliment. I will try to post some pictures of last years offspring. They are as spectacular but I have to have other people shrink my pictures to post them.