boulengeri's hatched

Last week, after 60 days of incubation, the eggs of my Rhynchophis boulengeri hatched.
I like these snakes a lot.

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Cheers,
Harold

Fantastic Harold, I can see why you like them so much, are they easy captives?
Cheers,
Al

Hello Harold!

Congratulations!!!

Great pictures of very cute babies!

Maybe you can post a picture from the parents???

Good luck with them!

Best regards from tyrol!
Benny

Thanks Al and Benny!

@ Al
Some Rhynchophis-babies can be difficult in getting started on babymice, but I have good experiences with feeding them small living fish. The little snakes will catch them out of the waterbowl. After a few months the snakes will take defrosted mice which I offer with tweezers. Once they take mice they are as easy as cornsnakes in my opinion.

@ Benny
Here are some pictures of the parents:

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EDIT:

just found another picture
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Best regards from the Netherlands,
Harold

Thanks for that info Harold. I was discussing your new babies with a friend on the phone and said i'd seen green Rhynchophis boulengeri before but not grey. You adult pics explains it all Very Happy

Thanks for sharing,
Al

congratulations Harold!
we have also one pair at HerpaWorld. i like them too.. ours are semi adults and take nothing else than pinkies..

can you give some more informations on their breeding Harold?

cheers
Mario

Hi Harold
Congratulations! I have 1 pair of these as well and the babies were a little difficult to get to take mice! But once they start eating they are just like corn snakes! And they can swallow quite large items without a problem!.
Cheers
Gavin

Mario Lutz wrote:: can you give some more informations on their breeding Harold?

@ Mario:

great that you have a pair of these beauties too! Feel free to post some pictures of them in this topic Cool

Are they totally green already?

Concerning breeding:
They breed very easily. I just cool them a little in winter (at appr. 16-18 degrees Celcius) by simply switching the lights off. I keep them separated most time of the year. In springtime I start feeding the female more then normally so she will be heavy enough to produce eggs. After their first shed after hibernation I introduce the male to the female. It takes only very short period of time before they'll start mating.

Unfortunately the male bites a lot during mating and last time he injured her. He ripped off a few dorsal-scales, but luckily it healed perfectly already. So next time I'll watch them more closely to prevent injuries. But as I said they are very easy to breed in my opinion.

@ Al:
There are even perfectly blue colored specimens of this species Cool

@ Gavin:
They can easily swallow pretty big prey-items indeed Shocked

Cheers,
Harold

Nice animals Harold, congratulations on your breeding.
How is your cage setup? Do you find they like to climb alot and do yours spend much time in the water?

Harold,
Yesterdays Daily Mirror had a picture of this this species hatching at London Zoo. Underneath it read , "This is the first time this species has been bred in Europe""

Thought you might have something to say about that lol!

I think the correct term should have been "... 1st time in an european zoo.".....

Greetings from Hamburg

Sven Vogler
Laughing

Rob Deans wrote:: Nice animals Harold, congratulations on your breeding.
How is your cage setup? Do you find they like to climb alot and do yours spend much time in the water?

Sorry for the late answer Rob, but the cage setup is pretty simple.
Just a small branche, a waterbowl, a plastic plant and a moisturebox (hidebox with wet sphagnum).
They climb a lot indeed, but also use the floor a lot too. They also like to lay in the waterbowl, especially the young ones.
As substrate I use very small bark.

Best regards,
Harold

Al Hyde wrote:: Harold,
Yesterdays Daily Mirror had a picture of this this species hatching at London Zoo. Underneath it read , "This is the first time this species has been bred in Europe""

Thought you might have something to say about that

That's funny to read Al Laughing

This species has been bred numerous times last decade.
Rhynchophis boulengeri was discovered for the first time during an expedition to Vietnam of Tula Exotarium and Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995. That year they bred this snake for the first time. So this snakespecies has been bred for about 13 years now by the Exotarium and herpetoculturist in Europa etc..

Best regards,
Harold

Hi Harold, I found it most amusing too when a friend showed me the cutting lol!

I thought they'd been bred numerous times. Still, at least it was a positive upbeat article anyway, most unusual for a newspaper.
All the best Harold, and greeting to you too Sven from UK Smile

Al

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