Acanthophis laevis

This is our laevis female from Aseki island. It is huge - almost 80 cm long. Enjoy.

Acanthophis laevis Laevisfemale1

wow! big lady Smile

how old is she?

Yes that's 1 big adder, feeding on rats? Never seen 1 from Aseki before, the 1's from PNG i've seen were mainly black. Really like the colours of this 1, wild caught or captive bred?-Cheers.

Nigel Sowter wrote:: Yes that's 1 big adder, feeding on rats? Never seen 1 from Aseki before, the 1's from PNG i've seen were mainly black. Really like the colours of this 1, wild caught or captive bred?-Cheers.

@ Nigel,
the animal that Klaus has show us, display the typical coloration of the ,,Aseki´´ laevis. I´ve seen nearly black laevis, but the was from Halmahera. I see this only one time on the expo in Houten, but now it is more than 6-7 years ago. Also there was some gray ones with very thin crossbars. Like the blacks, I´ve never seen this after that show. The was exported over Bali to Germany.
In my opinion, the Aseki laevis is one of the biggest laevis, of anny population, because maby the ones from upper PNG are bigger, but I read only from them and I´ve never seen such a snake.
My from Aseki are in size and coloration very similar to that from Klaus. The males are sometimes much more colorfull and contrasted. The females are more reddish-brown. But they are very haevy and eat like pig´s.

Very nice, first time I see this colour with Laevis. Thanx for sharing

Best regards, BKK

Hi Sebastian, Nigel, Peter, Bostjan, all

I don't know exactly how old this snake is as I got it as an adult, but it was captive bred, according to the info I have. It eats 40 gr rats like a vacuum. In the 12 years that I have been keeping Acanthophis, we had a couple of big animals such as for instance some antarcticus and also a very large rugosus female, but this one is definitely a monster. I got a very beautifully coloured male with it, but separated them after the lady had tried to kill him once and I just got there right in time. Can you imagine how much venom this specimen produces?

okay interesting! bought myself my first pair Acanthopis (laevis) locality Merauke and are really happy very cool to keep. You Klaus has kept this species for a while how do you do when you are going to release them together to keep down the risk that some of them will be bitten and die by accident? try to get them fed before they are placed together, or how do you do?

Best regards Sebastian!

Peter van Issem wrote:: @ Nigel,
the animal that Klaus has show us, display the typical coloration of the ,,Aseki´´ laevis. I´ve seen nearly black laevis, but the was from Halmahera. I see this only one time on the expo in Houten, but now it is more than 6-7 years ago. Also there was some gray ones with very thin crossbars. Like the blacks, I´ve never seen this after that show. The was exported over Bali to Germany.
In my opinion, the Aseki laevis is one of the biggest laevis, of anny population, because maby the ones from upper PNG are bigger, but I read only from them and I´ve never seen such a snake.
My from Aseki are in size and coloration very similar to that from Klaus. The males are sometimes much more colorfull and contrasted. The females are more reddish-brown. But they are very haevy and eat like pig´s.

Thanks Peter-pity Aseki isn't in outback Australia somewhere. lol

Yes Nigel,
we have problems to get some of the Australian ones and for you guys in Australia it isn´t easy to get acces to the Indonesian ones. So we both can dream for some species...but, when it was easy to get everything, it makes something not so intresting. So we still have something to work on.

pffff, she has such a gorgeous face!!
love the colours

Lovely snake.

I really have to get some of those soon...

Regards // Pelon

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