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hello Aussie herp keepers. I was wondering about the legalities of keeping reptiles in Australia?
 
Legal to keep most species if you have the appropriate licence & experience.
 
Legal to keep most species if you have the appropriate licence & experience.

Damn I feel luckey not to have limitations like this. The only herps i am not alloud to keep is of course certin c.i.t.e.s animals and non native venomus reptiles. Although im in the process of completeing my 1000 hours experince so i can keep non native vipers. I cant wait. Is it hard/expensive to get the proper licences in order for you guys to keep herps?
 
I not long got back from Orange County.. Love how you can take your reptiles for a walk there. They encourage taking them to petsmart, Some nice pets there you can all keep. Still our Pythons are best looking.
 
Damn I feel luckey not to have limitations like this. The only herps i am not alloud to keep is of course certin c.i.t.e.s animals and non native venomus reptiles. Although im in the process of completeing my 1000 hours experince so i can keep non native vipers. I cant wait. Is it hard/expensive to get the proper licences in order for you guys to keep herps?

It's actually quite restrictive compared to the states.
- Zero exotics at all, period. It's flat out illegal to possess an exotic animal
- Venomous snakes require some significant licensing in nsw (and in most other states except tasmania from memory)
 
this is all we can keep in Tasmania
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| width="50%" | [h=4]Reptiles[/h]
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| width="50%" | Bassiana duperreyi
| width="50%" | Three-lined skink
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| width="50%" | Cyclodomorphus casuarinae
| width="50%" | She-oak skink
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| width="50%" | Egernia whitei
| width="50%" | Whites skink
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| width="50%" | Lampropholis delicata
| width="50%" | Delicate skink
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| width="50%" | Niveoscincus greeni
| width="50%" | Northern snow skink
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| width="50%" | N. metallicus
| width="50%" | Metallic skink*
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| width="50%" | N. microlepidotus
| width="50%" | Southern snow skink
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| width="50%" | N. ocellatus
| width="50%" | Spotted skink*
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| width="50%" | N. orocryptus
| width="50%" | Mountain skink
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| width="50%" | N. pretiosus
| width="50%" | Tasmanian tree skink
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| width="50%" | Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii
| width="50%" | Southern grass skink
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| width="50%" | Tiliqua nigrolutea
| width="50%" | Blotched blue-tongue
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| width="50%" | Tympanocryptis diemensis
| width="50%" | Mountain dragon
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style="width: 100%"
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| width="50%" | Austrelaps superbus
| width="50%" | Copperhead snake
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| width="50%" | Drysdalia coronoides
| width="50%" | White-lipped snake
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| width="50%" | Notechis ater
| width="50%" | Tiger snake
|-
 
No I'm not moveing to Australia. Although I would like to take an extended vacation there. I love your native reptiles. I was just curios about the laws because, I saw a lot of threads about Australian native reptiles but not to much about non native.

It's actually quite restrictive compared to the states.
- Zero exotics at all, period. It's flat out illegal to possess an exotic animal
- Venomous snakes require some significant licensing in nsw (and in most other states except tasmania from memory)
It must be hard to see all the diffrent types of reptiles and not to be able to keep them. Unles you jump through some major hoops. I'm sorry if I come off sounding like I'm rubbing my gift(the keeping of non native herps) in, I have taken it for granted for so long. I'd hate not being able to keep non natives.

I not long got back from Orange County.. Love how you can take your reptiles for a walk there. They encourage taking them to petsmart, Some nice pets there you can all keep. Still our Pythons are best looking.
I can't argue with you about Australia haveing the best pythons, and some of the best geckos as well.
 
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It must be hard to see all the diffrent types of reptiles and not to be able to keep them. Unles you jump through some major hoops. I'm sorry if I come off sounding like I'm rubbing my gift(the keeping of non native herps) in, I have taken it for granted for so long. I'd hate not being able to keep non natives.
well some exotics are nice i dont really care that i cant keep them mainly because like you say we have the best, and im in nsw so our laws are pretty good here and we have a good species list imo , those hoops you speak of pretty much involve having your own zoo as far as i know so not many people can legally have them
 
this is all we can keep in Tasmania
style="width: 100%"
|-
| style="width: 50%" | [h=4]Reptiles[/h]
| width="50%" |
ecblank.gif

|-
| width="50%" | Bassiana duperreyi
| width="50%" | Three-lined skink
|-
| width="50%" | Cyclodomorphus casuarinae
| width="50%" | She-oak skink
|-
| width="50%" | Egernia whitei
| width="50%" | Whites skink
|-
| width="50%" | Lampropholis delicata
| width="50%" | Delicate skink
|-
| width="50%" | Niveoscincus greeni
| width="50%" | Northern snow skink
|-
| width="50%" | N. metallicus
| width="50%" | Metallic skink*
|-
| width="50%" | N. microlepidotus
| width="50%" | Southern snow skink
|-
| width="50%" | N. ocellatus
| width="50%" | Spotted skink*
|-
| width="50%" | N. orocryptus
| width="50%" | Mountain skink
|-
| width="50%" | N. pretiosus
| width="50%" | Tasmanian tree skink
|-
| width="50%" | Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii
| width="50%" | Southern grass skink
|-
| width="50%" | Tiliqua nigrolutea
| width="50%" | Blotched blue-tongue
|-
| width="50%" | Tympanocryptis diemensis
| width="50%" | Mountain dragon
|-

style="width: 100%"
|-
| style="width: 50%" | Austrelaps superbus
| width="50%" | Copperhead snake
|-
| width="50%" | Drysdalia coronoides
| width="50%" | White-lipped snake
|-
| width="50%" | Notechis ater
| width="50%" | Tiger snake
|-


I would love to be able to keep some of the snow skinks and garden skinks here!
 
From reading his intro thread my guess is this is the likely scenario.
Although im in the process of completeing my 1000 hours experince so i can keep non native vipers. I cant wait.,,,,, Does this sound like someone who is leaving the states? geees you guys would make lousy detectives !
 
...Is it hard/expensive to get the proper licences in order to keep herps?

Apply for license online, 5 mins.
100 bucks in QLD!
Then search for breeders in here and buy what you fancy. No experience required on my QLD license. Dead easy!!



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No I guess I wouldn't. We can actually keep them here I just can't actually get any.

Very few , if any people have them on license on the mainland.
 
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