Hey i have always wanted a diamond python but have no idea if you can even get them in WA I under stand that there naturally from NSW but can you still have them out side there habitat does anyone know?
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Nope cant keep them in WA.Hey i have always wanted a diamond python but have no idea if you can even get them in WA I under stand that there naturally from NSW but can you still have them out side there habitat does anyone know?
Yeah they are here alright. Just not legally. Lots of exotics turn up from time to time.. A car dealership also had a diamond appear out of a camper van recently in Perth.They would be there somewhere I am sure. They smuggle pythons o/s...so cannot see why not WA. No difference than exotics found everywhere in Australia.
Not that it really makes a difference as your information was correct and I don't even know why it seemed strange because everyone knows stuff about what they haven't actually had experience with.Handled been around but never owned
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Ok cool thanks for your response
Did I say that it was OK by law?I'm sure you could get them in WA, doesn't make it ok by law.
Not that it really makes a difference as your information was correct and I don't even know why it seemed strange because everyone knows stuff about what they haven't actually had experience with.
what happens then if you have a diamond and have to move to wa do you have to sell the snake?
I didn't think that there were and actual cases of IBD confirmed in Australia yet?The exclusion of all pythons from entering WA is based on quarantine to exclude IBD (inclusion body disease) found in boid snakes. The causative agent is thought to be an arenavirus but they have yet to fully confirm that.
Diamonds are also excluded by virtue of the fact that they are not on the list of reptiles permitted to be kept in WA.
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I didn't think that there were and actual cases of IBD confirmed in Australia yet?
Could it have been a incorrect diagnosis?l once had a Southeast Queensland Coastal Carpet Python, that l purchase in early 1990 has a juvenile, that was effected from ( inclusion body disease ) in the late 90's from a mite infestation.
So inclusion body disease is confirmed here in Australia.
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