West australia

[DamoInPerth]

Hi guys just wanted to start a thread to see if theres any west aussies that are members of Aussiepythons if so can we use this thread to print any new information on WA breeders, shops, enclosures, i.e. anything in general. As everyone knows WA is very new to the "Keeping of reptiles as pets" well legally anyway so if you are from WA or have any info wak it up here. :wink:
:arrow: Congrats to Aussiepythons for being what i think is the best Australian Herp site around with plenty of info and great info to match

:idea: Also I would be very interested in anyone keeping M.S.Imbricatas and if so can you upload some picks as im very interested in the patterns and colors. THANX

[Slateman]

DamoInPerth
Welcome to our community mate. We have member from western australia. His name is westaussie. He is friend of mine and one of the most experienced herp i know. Look at his personal album on this site.
cheers Slateman

[africancichlidau]

Welcome aboard Damo

[Brodie]

Welcome to the community Damo, if you are a newbie than almost everyone will be happy to give you help, but if you are experienced than everyone will be happy to have your help. By the way Congrats on the licencing changes, you must be wrapped.
Cheers

[Magpie]

Damo, I am a Perthite from way back but moved to NSW 18 months ago for their better reptile laws (well maybe the Mrs' job had something to do with at as well ) Good news that WA Govt and CALM have finally got their act together, even if the new laws are the 2nd or 3rd worst ones in Australia. At least you guys can keep something there now, a few friends of mine want pythons once the prices come down a bit.

South West Carpets are pretty rare over here, due to the fact that they have never (or rarely anyway) been allowed to be collected legally and people weren't able to grab a heap of them before an amnesty was declared as has happened with many of our other herps. Imbricata's are a beautiful snake and if anyone has one, I'm sure they would be willing to post some pics to their gallery for you. All I can tell you is that they have a very placid temperament in my experience (my Mrs once had one in her back yard at Helena Valley,) and are one of the best looking carpets IMO.
Good Luck

[byjungle]

Welcome aboard, i think a place in Melbourne have imbricatas for sale. Not sure what the place is called, but i did a search at www.tradingpost.com.au in Vic, i typed in pythons and heaps came up.


cheers
M.S

[Brodie]

I though that you werent allowed to import reptiles to WA?
cheers

[Alexahnder]

does melbourne reptile wharehouse have a website??

[byjungle]

I dont think so, but i think it is them who have the imbricatas for sale, they claim to be the only ones in VIC with them.Their prices look preety steep, would expect them to be quite expensive. URS had some last year for $450 for yearlings.

cheers
Mark

[westaussie]

Hey there Damo,

I remember asking if there were any west australians here a long time ago, when this site was new. Back then I was the only one here, now there could be 3 or 4 of us sandgropers.

As far as the new laws are going - well its been along battle but we finally got there!! There are a lot of limitations on the new regulations , but at least we have a licensing system in place now.
If you are looking for animals, advice or equipment then you may want to contact me as my company is a leader in this feild - "west Aussie Reptiles"
I am having server problems at the moment but you can have a look at www.westaussiereptiles.com.au I am still building the site , so it is far from complete.

Brodie We are not allowed to import pythons into W.A, but we may import other reptiles as long as they are on our approved species list.

[Magpie]

Are you going to be allowed to export at all?
If not, what if you had reptiles under licence in WA and moved to NSW?
I really want a pair of Barroni you see....
I know they are not really in captivity even over there at the moment but that might change.
Also, the pygmies are pretty highly sought after over here and I would imagine will be fairly common over there in time.

[Brodie]

Yeah, like hopefully in a few years the laws will loosen a little and people will be alowed to collect Rough Scaled pythons

[westaussie]

Yea we can export - but only animals on our species list.
olive pythons are on our list , but we are not permitted to take or keep the pilbara olive sub-species (L. olivaceus barroni ).
Unfortunately - pygmies (perthensis) and rough scaleds (carinata) are also animals that are not included . I do expect the species list to grow but that may take a few years.
So for now we can only work with what we got, but it is a good starting point. I think you can expect imbricatas to become fairly common now that we can breed them, although, we have to supply the west aussie market first as demand & prices will be fairly high to start with.

Roll on summer roll on !!

[Magpie]

Damnation, I REALLY want a Barroni!

Barroni are the giant olive python subspecies arnet they i really want one too how big do they get.