Ahaetulla prasina & Dispholidus typus

Hello,

just wanted to share some pics from my new snakes i picked up at the Hamm show last weekend. The boomslangs are wc and lived at a farm in south africa since a while and seem to be in perfect condition, just stunning animals. I`m really looking forward to try to feed them the first time Very Happy

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The Ahaetulla i got 5 juvenile animals from a friend which just arrived a few days before, also making a good impression except one whick has a bend at the tale
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regards
Julian

boomslangs are very nice looking animals,but they are really bad customers!
greetings Twisted Evil

Really nice specimen

I really love the boomers!. If you ever want to get rid of them drop me a line Smile

Awesome snakes, especially the green-yellow-black boomslang Smile

Wish you luck with those!

Lovely looking animals....the Booms are almost certainly from southern KZN which is an area that has some of the most attractive males.
Would be interesting to see how they do with you.
What are your Ahaetulla prasina feeding on?

The prasinas are feeding on lizards. It`s really great fun to wath them hunt on those Very Happy

Also hope that with the boomslangs all goes well, but there`s no reason to doubt on this at the moment.

I made some feeding pics Wink

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Hi Julian,

nice animals, wish you all the best and hopefully some breeding action in the future, too!

Your squam, by the way, does well!

Gruß Jonas

Hi Jonas,

thanks for the wishes.
Thats great to hear, i wish you great fun with the little critter Wink

I think we need more pictures of your beautiful snakes, all has gone well?
Youve got enough of those boomies and are ready to hand them over to me?? Just kidding Wink

Hm, yes they are doing well, the only problem is that the male didn`t started to eat till now.
Till now i just tried mice and chicken with all possible tricks but he`s not very interested.
I think i`ll try if he goes on lizards the next days Rolling Eyes

You also had some problems to get them eating? If so, perhaps you can give me some information about

Sadly the 2 want to stay here at my place Wink

The Ahaetulla are doing very well, atm i have 9 of them and all take frozen mice by now.

Don`t know which of these to species i like more Laughing

The 2 wont stay there? Do you need my address where to send them?? Razz

Male isn´t eating? Can you tell more about how you house them? Together or separately? Whatkind of cage etc.? What tricks have you tried?
I had problems with the babies as they loved lizards but when i run out of lizards they weren´t interested in mice at all. Although when i opened up a lizard and scented the mice they were taken straight even from my forceps. These days the remaining kids don´t take from forceps but they always eat when i leave the food on a branch and leave them alone. The adults fly towards the forceps when it´s feeding time and i can do whatever i want in their enclosure when they eat and they don´t care. The male was abit shy in the beginning but he soon learned good habits and feeding is very easy.

Hopefully it would start eating there soon.
And nice to know the Ahaetulla are fine, hopefully youll have no problems with them in the future Smile

And i know what you meen, Ahaetulla is a bizarre looking species Very Happy

But very interesting snakes!

Hi,

at the moment i keep them together in a 60*100*110 terrarium (know its to small on constancy). They are plants in it so they can hide and feel save.

I tried mice and chicken, living and dead. I separated them for long time and left the male in the cage but he was not interested in food.

Few hours ago i cord a small gecko on a chicken and put that in the trees, when i risked a look some time later he was eating it Very Happy

Now i hope that he will accept just chicken in the next time, but have some frosted geckos left.

Some Ahaetulla i have left when you are interested Smile

Sorry for late reply but man it´s nice to hear that he ate that by himself Smile

Any progress, he´s now eating everything like a horse? Hopefully he is, and if not then hopefully he would start soon Smile

Ahaetulla are nice, not the easiest snakes but very fascinating sp. I had few and even got some youngsters out, now i´m trying to figure out what species i want to keep so Ahaetukka will have to wait for awhile Smile

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