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03-Jun-04, 10:54 PM
| | | | Nope I have seen matt black water pythons in the wild...VERY nice. |
03-Jun-04, 11:07 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | bump.... always wanted to do this |
03-Jun-04, 11:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Baritji Nope I have seen matt black water pythons in the wild...VERY nice. | Gee - one of mine is very dark gloss brown with the rainbow sheen, imagine a gloss black with a rainbow sheen. Droooool. |
03-Jun-04, 11:33 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | yeah, so whats the difference between a python and a colourbid (tree snake) as in keeping as a pet wise? |
04-Jun-04, 01:31 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | I believe a python has to meet these criteria -
Have the remnants of a pelvis
Have spurs
Be non venomous/solid toothed
Egg laying (Boa = live bearing)
A majority have heat sensing pits, however there is the exception, namely the Aspidites family.
Colubrids are all the snakes that don't fit into any other criteria (Boidae, Elapidae, Viperidae...)
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04-Jun-04, 07:48 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | Ok, but like keeping as a pet whats the difference?
Oh and fuscus i emailed him and he emailed me right back, the snakesnt people that is, they have single water pythons for $90 including freight ( to brisbane) and a pair for 150, im not sure if thats with freight, would these snakes be ok? also anyone owned a tree snake before? |
04-Jun-04, 09:48 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-03 Location: silverdale, nsw | | | | well pythons are easy to keep...colubrids vary a lot more and are pretty much all specialised feeders. Common tree snakes (dendrelaphis punctulata) are frog specialists although they also take reptiles and fish. They can be converted onto mice but it can be extremely difficult...best bets would be feeding em fish. I hav had heaps of tree snakes, and all except 1 has posed a problem with feeding. If u are not experienced in keeping snakes and/or u r not a patient person i dont recommend tree snakes. |
04-Jun-04, 09:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | Well ok not very exp. i dont think im very patience either lol |
04-Jun-04, 09:58 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | You can't group things into pythons vs colubrids etc
Some are stupidly easy to keep, some aren't worth the time...depends on the exact species.
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04-Jun-04, 10:10 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | ok cool, thanks.
oh and anyone who has kept water pythons, would one for 90 inc freight be and ok one, its from www.snakesnt.com? |
04-Jun-04, 10:12 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | It would be perfectly fine. The might be wild caught (legally). Ben is a good bloke, has helped me out a few times, and you won't get a cheaper deal than that.
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04-Jun-04, 10:13 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | it says on his sight he has never and will never sell caught reptiles... |
04-Jun-04, 10:14 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | I just looked at the SnakesNT website and there is no WP's for $90...$150 each.
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04-Jun-04, 10:22 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | yeah there are, he sent me an email |
05-Jun-04, 09:49 AM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: Jul-03 Location: Outside your window | | |  Hey sxe,ben quite often has things 4sale that he dont put on there website,i dont think they do a lot of web updating,i think its more of an advertisement than a functioning site,well it was last i looked.
cheers popp
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