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2 shots of my female situla.
Furst one is her first year laying, and the second her successive year laying. Those eggs are HUGE for a small colubrid

Those eggs are huge for that snake!

I have a pair of Croatian situla on loan to a friend - who has been trying to breed them for a couple years. He was very close last year with a clutch of "good" eggs - went full term and then the babies died in their eggs. I'll look for my pics of those snakes...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Great looking female Nazza.
I have always been amazed with situla's striking speed. I think they can repeatedly strike faster than any other species I've kept. It seems they can strike at least 3 times a second when they want too. Have you ever noticed that with ones you kept?
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Randy Whittington

Funny you mentioned that, Randy. I was thinking about making a comment on strike speed for situla too - they are just blinding fast strikers! I had mine a for quite a while before one of them was grumpy enough to let me know it - but I knew I was bleeding before I knew I'd even been bitten. LOL John Lassiter is currently keeping my pair, and has also experienced their incredible strike speed.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Maybe their common nake should be changed to Ninja Rat snake.
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Randy Whittington

I don't really remember them so fast, were shy and nervous but not, for example, as ridley. I think that at one point , adult and young, I had 8 / 10 situlas.

Maybe because mine were all italian , no croatian