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Mark Truesdale
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Number of posts : 8
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Registration date : 2009-10-03

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PostSubject: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeThu 23 Dec - 23:11
Hi guys,

I've been checking out this forum for a while now so I think it's time I did the right thing and introduced myself!
My names Mark and I'm from the south-west of England in the UK.
I've had my DWA licence which enables me to keep venomous snakes in captivity here in the UK for almost 5 years now and I specialize in truevipers and pit-vipers.
My favourite genus are Bitis, Bothrops, Crotalus and Vipera. I've been fortunate to have been lucky enough to aqquire a very wide and varied selection of viper species in my quest to better understand this group of snakes and is a subject I feel very passionate about. I'm also under going my own personal study of the only native species of trueviper we have in the UK, the common Adder, Vipera berus. It's something I know will take me the rest of my life but I'd like to eventually become a "field expert" on this species. After all, it is because of my discovery 10 years ago of a local population of Adders close to my home that I first became interested in snakes.

So far I've kept Atheris squamigera, Agkistrodon contortrix, Bitis arietans, Bitis gabonica, Bitis rhinoceros, Bothrops neuwiedi, Cerastes cerastes, Crotalus atrox, Crotalus durissus vegrandis (I'm not 100% sure but hasn't the Urocoan Rattler recieved full species status?) Crotalus molossus and Crotalus scutulatus.
It's been an interesting 5 years I can tell you and I've learnt a great deal but I feel I've still got a long way to go.
My ultimate goal is to be able to perhaps specialize in Lanceheads and be able to keep Bothrops atrox and asper.
Also on my wish list are Russels vipers and Eastern-Diamond back rattlers. West-African Gaboon Vipers are also a very keen favourite of mine and since I had to move on a large female that I kept that would not strike feed for love nor money ( since then my good friend Alan Hyde has aqquirred her and has somehow "trained" her to strike-feed) I am not in a posistion to house another specimen. Something to look forward too...

Right now though I only have the fascility to keep a small collection and this is how it stands right now-

1.1 Bothrops neuweidi
0.1 Bitis arietans
1.0 Crotalus atrox
1.1 Vipera ammodytes

All my pics are a bit dated so I'll have to take some new ones before posting them up.
Anyway I look forward to talking with you.

regards,
Mark Truesdale.
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Stefan Anthonijsz
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeFri 24 Dec - 0:59
Elapids rule!
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Jaroslav Karhánek
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeFri 24 Dec - 1:11
Hi, I have to agree with you. Vipers rules or better say Lanceheads rules:)
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeFri 24 Dec - 1:15
Stefan Anthonijsz wrote:
Elapids rule!

HERE HERE!
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Mark Truesdale
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeFri 24 Dec - 3:56
Let me set the record straight guys!

VENOMOUS SNAKES RULE!!!
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Graeme Skinner
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeFri 24 Dec - 6:07
Welcome to the forum Mark

Regards

Graeme
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Mike Spencer
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Location : Northern California/Ft. Smith, Arkansas
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeFri 24 Dec - 12:55
I'm gonna have to just say Snakes Rule!!! (Except for boids and a lot of boring colubrids)

Welcome to the forum, Mark.
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Brian Petrie
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PostSubject: Re: Vipers Rule!!   Vipers Rule!! Icon_minitimeSun 26 Dec - 5:26
Hi Mark,
Welcome to Venomland, good to see you on here.
Cheers,
Brian.
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