Orange arietans

This beauty made it here recently from Tanzania. The photos don't do its color any justic as its much more orange than what appears in the photos. Oddly, he's its very calm and fat and may have been someone's pet there?

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A really nice arietans you have there, Dan Wink

That is a really beautiful Puff indeed.
Tanzania must have some of the nicest Puffs ever.

I have several in my collection, some from Tanzania and some cape's.

Dan

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Yeah, you have some gorgeous Puffs there. I have a female that's quite close to no. 2, and she's from Tanzania.
What about no 3, where is that from? It's looks fantastic.

The top and bottom photos are cape's and second and third are tanzanian's. Did you have photos of your puffs.

Dan

Alright, thanks for the info on those. Man I like that third one Very Happy

Yes, here are photos of mine, all are from Tanzania;

This is the female. As you can see, the red has faded with age. It's a rather dark specimen.
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This is the male.
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This male is owned 50/50 with my best buddy, and he currently keeps it.
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Those are beautiful. My blackish one from tanzania is gravid (from the wild) so I am quite excited here waiting it out as she should drop any day.

Dan

Christian & Dan, you have very beautiful puffies !! the orange one & the yellow one are stunning!!

Thank you Marc Very Happy

Dan, be sure to post some pics when the babies arrive, ok? Thanks.

did you guys can point me any puffi population in africa, where the B.aritans are used to higher humidity ?

i have not had any success in keeping them alive here in the philippines. we have freaky high humidity and i think they just cant take it.

but there have to be populations in africa where puffies are used to it?

cheers
Mario

Mine are kept in a somewhat humid room but their cages have small heat lamps and small water bowls to keep the air within the cage dry as possible and the lamp is positioned at the opposite end of the water bowl to not permit evaporation and such from the lamp. The puffs will spend most of the time either under the lamp or near it and I have not had any issues with this method. However, without the lamp, I will admit they don't fare too well if kept with a water bowl too long or if kept in plastic boxes with lids in a humid climate.

Dan

I can't really answer Mario's question, but I would assume that B. arietans are not likely to tolerate constant high humidity.
I don't keep water bowl in my Puff terrarium at all. I spray them now and then, perhaps 1-2 times per week on average, and let them drink from that as much as they will.
I do give them a 'rainy season', spraying them more heavily over a period of time, but as there is a pretty good ventilation, it has not affected them negatively as far as I can tell.

Well I introduced the orange male to the yellow female's cage a couple days ago and he has been chasing her down for 2 days now trying to lockup but with hopes she will tire and allow nature to take her course.

Dan

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Hope all goes well with that pair. I'm sure they'd produce some real nice babies.

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