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08-Apr-06, 08:10 PM
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I have probably already asked, but when are you starting to cool them down? What temps to you get (night time) up your neck of the woods in "winter"?
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08-Apr-06, 08:13 PM
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Thanks for that Rob, It's amazing the size difference between localities.
Katherine being only 300kms south, we get absolute monsters.
I have a friend with some of the biggest olives i've seen.
And tough as nails, great animals 
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08-Apr-06, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by yommy Thanks for that Rob, It's amazing the size difference between localities.
Katherine being only 300kms south, we get absolute monsters.
I have a friend with some of the biggest olives i've seen.
And tough as nails, great animals | Pics please  |
08-Apr-06, 08:25 PM
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In mid winter it gets below 10 degrees, and all my animals have full acsess to those temps.
Because of the way its set up I dont need to cool them down, they do it themselves, although while mating I turn the heat off at night and on during the day. Usually april/may I start mating the olives.
I used this same method to better effect when I lived down south as the temp gradiants are much more seasonaly defined and this enables earlier matings.
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08-Apr-06, 09:06 PM
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i'll see what i can do...
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08-Apr-06, 09:15 PM
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here's one from a callout last year. Great condition for a wild animal.
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08-Apr-06, 09:20 PM
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And a different one from another callout. This one tried to eat a bloke cattle dog pup. Luckily for the snake the farmer appreciated their place and didn't extract revenge. Both animals lived to fight another day.
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08-Apr-06, 09:32 PM
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Ooooh baby, thats great  Massive head for an olive, must be quite an old animal. More. more :wink:
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08-Apr-06, 09:38 PM
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I see more of the larger ones getting around then littler ones, they are the king of the territory and one of the most common encountered around the katherine and surrounding area's. Great animals but to large for my housing situation though i'm extremely lucky to see these guys regulary in their wild environment. Joys of being in the NT
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08-Apr-06, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by yommy I see more of the larger ones getting around then littler ones, they are the king of the territory and one of the most common encountered around the katherine and surrounding area's. Great animals but to large for my housing situation though i'm extremely lucky to see these guys regulary in their wild environment. Joys of being in the NT | Very lucky to have them in your "backyard". I think you can always find room for one or two though, just get rid of any boring morelia that might be wasting valuable housing space :wink:
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08-Apr-06, 09:56 PM
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The smaller albino's would be a great option size wise if I had the cash.
The boring morelia's are paying their way to the procurment of better species.
I want woma's before anything else anyway
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