Zamenis situla or the leopard snake isn`t so rare in captivity. I know of many breeders, but still they only produce a few eggs at most (not like a friend that had 11 babies in a single clutch) Hardy ongoing breeders are on the other hand VERY hard to find, and if you are looking for locality forms, you better look hard and long.
They are out there, but since I started with situla, I did find that it is a non profit animal, and "noone" sticks to them for generations. I have bred them in 3 populations ( 1 not perfectly due to inbreeding and I needed to breed in a nearbye locality)and I have done that for 14 generations maybe even 15. I have stopped counting. I have bred them since 1981 and will do it, to the day I die. In the beginning I fed the babies up to maturity in no time, but I didn`t have any good results from that. Now nature takes its time, and I breed them in their 4`th year. They get so much older and far more healthier that way.
The american way of producing various sorts of color morphs, isn`t my way. I had them among the babies a few times, but that isn`t my kind of breeding.

Best wishes
Søe

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