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24-Mar-08, 07:34 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender:  | | | Where are all the old snakes?
I saw an older Jungle the other day, approaching 8 years, and while her skin was not as bright as a young snake, she had a calm self assuredness and maturity, plus an enormous fat head (kind of liike me in my middle age).
This led me to ask the question, given pythons can live to 30 years, where are all the old snakes? I never see any pythons over about 6 years for sale. Is this because: the hobby is relatively new and there aren't many CB old boys and girls around, are people hanging on to them for breeding or are they dying young?
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24-Mar-08, 07:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | All the oldies were wiped out in the great IBD plague.
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24-Mar-08, 08:48 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: kellyville,sydney Age/Gender: 34 | | | | people lie about the snake there selling and say its 6 when its really 18 lol |
24-Mar-08, 08:50 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Cause after having had a snake for over 5 years they have an attachment to them and don't want to sell them.
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24-Mar-08, 08:52 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | Was that a lie Lector or did that really happen? |
24-Mar-08, 09:37 PM
| | Regular Member | | | | | Oh yeah back in good old 2001 every older snake had to be euthanased and only hatchies kept. thats y noone has a snake older than 6 years.
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24-Mar-08, 09:41 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | Oh for sure, its all clear to me now. |
24-Mar-08, 09:52 PM
| | Regular Member | | | | | had a bon fire going at my house that night, funny how nobody else talks about it.
All my friends assured me that the govt regulations called for all my snakes to be burnt.
I lost all those morphs i worked soooooo hard on.
And i know Weigal wouldnt lie to me. He told me to give him my GTPs and he'd dispose of them properly.
actually now it makes me wonder. did anyone else dispose of nearly there whole collection?
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24-Mar-08, 10:03 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by waruikazi  Cause after having had a snake for over 5 years they have an attachment to them and don't want to sell them. | Thanks: that's the least inane response so far 
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24-Mar-08, 10:07 PM
| | Regular Member | | | | seriously its probably because of the time period in which the licencing system was brought in. most older animals are WC, also some people who paid big bucks for animals such as black headed pythons years and years ago are not going to part with that animal for a few measley grand.
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24-Mar-08, 10:16 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender: | | | | Well that's what I thought, but sometimes people seem to be compelled to sell snakes (personal illness, travelling OS etc), but I rarely see urgent sales of 10 year old pythons. Maybe they just get snapped up before they reach the open market?
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24-Mar-08, 10:19 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Behind you | | | | I have seen a childres python that was 23 years old.It just looked like any other childrens i have seen.
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24-Mar-08, 10:26 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Eastern subs Melbourne Gender: | | | | I think the most impressive old snakes would be the carpets, they seem to get big and stocky and their heads seem to expand to the size of a small dog's. I am not surpised that antaresia, so-called "freak snakes", would not look different with aging, although they probably get a bit more forgetful. I also have a 5 year old Stimmie who could be 2.
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25-Mar-08, 01:19 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Under the Hat Gender: | | | There are some old snakes around but most people who have them tend to hang onto them. I've seen a few for sale over the years but not many.
This boy was hatched in 95 
a 92 model 
This was the oldest I've ever had, she was brought in the country as an adult WC in 90. so she was in her twenty's when she passed away last year 
So there are some geezers around.. Randy |
25-Mar-08, 05:35 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | | that last one looked like it was a real stunner! | | |
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