PilbaraPythons
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Is your first line a question to me slim6y? If it is, who said I am complaining ? just stating facts really.
For those that think there isn't a current demand for our reptiles from many different countrys around the world haven't seen the regular e-mails I get from overseas buyers.
Is your first line a question to me slim6y? If it is, who said I am complaining ? just stating facts really.
How aren't those listed elapid species available in Australia? I see the whole "escaped pet" argument as being very weak. Ask yourself this, are you really going to let a $5,000 Inland Taipan escape from it's cage, let alone your snake room, let alone your basement, let alone your house! I think NOT! And $5,000 is just the cost of the snake itself. Not shipping cost, not broker cost, not import cost, inspection fee, etc. For that big of an investment, I highly doubt escapees are going to be a problem. I'm going to go ahead and make the argument that escaped native species could just as well do damage to your own native population. Lets say someone had a litter of red belly black snakes born and they all escaped. Would that not cause an imbalance in the local ecosystem? I know you are all thinking about the burmese pythons in the Everglades. This was caused by irresponsible pet owners, not importers, not reptile breeders, not legit reptile keepers, but just that idiot that bought a burm from a pet shop because he thought it was cool at the time. All of the literarure I've read about burms in the Glades has pointed to other animals being more responsible to predation on native species. I believe it was a wood rat that was the topic of interest. They did a study on the stomach content of a colony of feral cats in the Glades and found them to be more detrimental to the population of rats than the burms themselves.
For the argument of animals being more expensive in Australia than the stock that comes from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea or whatever, they aren't the real deal! People will pay good money to have captive bred locality Australian reptiles from new and different bloodlines, period! And then again, you can't speak with certainty that people would or wouldn't spend good money or that any exotic species are going to take up residence. I know one thing for sure, many of the world's big time dealers would HATE to see Australia open it's boarders because they make really good money from smuggling and selling to other countries.
Yet an Egyptian cobra got escaped from a zoo. You cannot say with certainty that no pet will escape.How aren't those listed elapid species available in Australia? I see the whole "escaped pet" argument as being very weak. Ask yourself this, are you really going to let a $5,000 Inland Taipan escape from it's cage, let alone your snake room, let alone your basement, let alone your house! I think NOT! And $5,000 is just the cost of the snake itself. Not shipping cost, not broker cost, not import cost, inspection fee, etc. For that big of an investment, I highly doubt escapees are going to be a problem.
Slim6y, What do you call a litter of RBBS?
Isn't it a clutch???
LOL, I don't know I imagine if the term clutch isn't correct, it is at least acceptable. I have allways refered to live bearers as having litters. I'm quite possibly wrong.
Rbbs are live bearers so litter is correct I'd imagine.
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