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10-May-06, 08:01 AM
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Hi Guys
Still looking for any info on who might be selling or breeding pygmy pythons |
10-May-06, 10:38 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Eltham, Victoria | | | | by pygmy python do you mean: childrens pythons, stimpsons pythons, macs or anthill pythons?
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10-May-06, 10:41 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-05 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | He probably means anthill python, the others aren't very hard to find. There are only a few anthills around in captivity.
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10-May-06, 11:14 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-05 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | I just checked the returns list, there are only 3 in NSW, I don't think many people would sell them at all, and if they do they would cost a bit.
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10-May-06, 05:37 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 22 | | | | Apparently they are the hardest snake to keep as a hatchy just because they are so small. I know a bloke who had some for a while and they are literally like worms a few inches long and only feed on this weird eel in the first few months of life.
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10-May-06, 05:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Eltham, Victoria | | | | wasn't there some american bloke that had a couple hatchies, supposably he was feeding them pinky mice heads :O
andrew |
10-May-06, 06:41 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | You can feed them on pinky drum sticks as well. |
10-May-06, 06:48 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jul-04 Location: Nowhere with Nome:) | | | | They are bred pretty regularly over seas and as trueblue said i think most start them feeding on pinkie mice legs.
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11-May-06, 05:48 AM
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Thanks for replying guys the pygmy pythons are Antaresia perthensis. Can any of you help me out with a contact so i find out how much they are and what the wait time is to get them. Thanks for all the tips on feeding them but thats no good to me if i cant get any  . Any help would be most apreciated.
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11-May-06, 08:57 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-04 Location: Gold Coast | | | | i have a few friends up here in Qld who keep them and should breed them this season as the have a few mature adults between them now. they are stunning little snakes
cheers Sam |
11-May-06, 09:04 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Townsville, Qld | | | | Hey byup. I would be interested in finding out how much they are going to sell them for and if they have a waiting list, etc. |
11-May-06, 10:14 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: Sydney, NSW | | | | Anyone got a photo of one? I'd love to see both a hatchie & an adult one. I thought CHildrenis were small but these little fellas sound positivly tiny!
Kath |
11-May-06, 10:44 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | | in the guide to australian reptiles it says there fully grown length is 61 cm..so they sound tiny!
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12-May-06, 04:16 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 22 | | | | They don't look much different to the other childreni species, a little more speckly that the others. A tiny little bit like a granite morph.
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12-May-06, 09:54 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Perth W.A | | | | I see these quite a lot, as they are fairly common in some places.
Here is a pic of an adult, should give you an Idea of the size. | | |
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