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03-Aug-05, 06:55 AM
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Can any members tell me about Red Bellies temperament? A mate with one says they're more placid than the average coastal, but he's a nutter so somewhat unreliable!
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03-Aug-05, 08:06 AM
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EVeryone ive spoken to that has them has said the same thing, that they are more placid than any of the pythons they own. Crazy huh? |
03-Aug-05, 08:18 AM
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Even straight from the wild with in a few minutes most can be fully free handled with out a prob, but when ya find a cranky one they can be quite aggressive. More the exceptoin than the rule thou.
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03-Aug-05, 08:44 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | generally speaking rbbs are pretty laid back but the exception,will have a go like rock said,havnt met to many laid back browns but they are out there to,
this guy was caught at a langwarren business
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03-Aug-05, 09:28 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Central Coast NSW Age: 22 | | | | I hear the are very suitable to captivity... sais it in john weigel's book (care of aus reptiles in captivity)
Would you say they would be the best choice for someone lookin to get into venomous snakes??? |
03-Aug-05, 09:41 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne, Australia Gender:  | | | I've heard they were the best to start off with also. There is a guy I know with a pretty placid 5fter that he keeps. The snake used to be a bit a freak to even look at not too long ago, but he has since calmed it down considerably, certainly enough to have it competantly freehandled without much of a worry 
On the same subject, aren't Colletts blacksnakes also equally as easy to settle down?? :roll: |
03-Aug-05, 11:09 AM
|  | Has Happy Herps.... Sponsor | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: SYDNEY | | | | I agree with the rock and sssnakeman, some rbbs will be quite pleasnant and some can be absolute buggars, you'd think their father was a eastern brown...LOL
I think they are a great snake for first time ven keepers as well as collets. I think collets are a little more venomous but if all treated with the respect they deserve you shouldn't have to worry about that. A mate has a pair of adult collets and can be freehandled with ease, if you like doing that that is.
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03-Aug-05, 11:25 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | Gilleni, I would highly recommend them as a first venomous snake. Just my opinion but they have a better temperement.
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03-Aug-05, 11:32 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Central Coast NSW Age: 22 | | | | Thanks pete,
i read that they give birth to live young in sacks, which they break out of in around an hour after the mother drops them...
does this make them easy to breed? |
03-Aug-05, 11:46 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | They are easy to breed but had little value and a lot of hard work to feed them all. They used to be either given away or..............
I think people are now keeping a few to sell as they will and are becomeing popular.
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03-Aug-05, 11:58 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Central Coast NSW Age: 22 | | | | Yeah i'v seen a few venomous snakes on AHC's for aroun $50-$100....
And my next question was goin to be... Why are they so cheap...
do you keep them pete?
i dont actually have any snakes, but i'm keen to get some as soon as i have my own house...
and one day i'd like to own a RBB, i think they are awsome snakes... |
03-Aug-05, 01:31 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | They seem to be going up in price because people want them and have upgraded their licenses.
Tigers throw out heaps of babies so they were really cheap this year. Given away in some cases.
If supply is kept up they prices shouldnt go up much but desirables seem to be getting big prices but that should steady a bit soon.
I have a few red bellys of my own. I had them for the rescue group courses before that on their general license.
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03-Aug-05, 09:35 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: north queensland | | | | Yes they are the best first vens and yes as listed above you can get bad ones and good ones but it depends on how far you take it i mean a very jumpy red belly in the cage will calm down one on a hook (like some pythons) or in the hand if thats what you like i have a pair that are crazy in there cages showing off like a pair of cobras flaring there knecks etc but once picked up are as calm as a python .i have found that the youger they are the harder too handle as they love food and just wont to grow and grow they try to eat anything that moves once they are older and fatter they are easy as to handle if thats what you like ,yes i do handle red bellies and colletts but will not handle any other elapids but i have mates that do handle the other vens which is pushing it (the things ive seen) |
03-Aug-05, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by ssssnakeman generally speaking rbbs are pretty laid back but the exception,will have a go like rock said,havnt met to many laid back browns but they are out there to,
this guy was caught at a langwarren business | Langy is full of them have had them in the yard. |
03-Aug-05, 09:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | there is heaps of copperheads in langy as well,
and tigers (not so many) ..they all come in all sorts of shapes and colors ,,my three fav vens in one small area,,any of these are good 1st vens .imo
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