Dispholidus typus

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Oh my god!!!! A dream before my eyes! The colour of the eyes is just incredible!

Congratulations!

Quote :: The colour of the eyes is just incredible!

You don´t live near a nuclear plant?
Stunning eyes...

Fabian

Congrat´s Stefan!
So amazing little Boomslang!

/ Johan

Thanks guys Smile

The eyes and the big round head are just lovely and the body´s coloration reminds me of a fish Razz

Hopefully they switch to pinkies without bigger complications, i have small geckos for food but a varied diet would be better and pinkies are easier to get. At late summer it´s time to introduce the male and the female again, after that regarding on success the female will get some rest time.

Congratulations buddy!

You're making me jealous here... Wink

Hopefully the rest will come out ok too and start feeding without much hassle.

That really is one killer baby. Cute as hell Smile

Thank m8

Jealous? Well that would be the first time as usually when i see your collection i walk with this expression on my face Shocked

And i have you to thank of the parents anyway Smile

But it really is cute as is the other one that just hatched. We even opened a big very bad looking egg and found dead twins inside (2 snakes, not the Arnold&DeVito movie..).
I wonder if they would have been saved if i´d open the egg earlier, they even looked like they had started their first shedding...

Well 10 little boomies have hatched so far, there were few that obviously couldn´t get out of the eggs as one even managed to make few big cuts in the shell but sadly died inside.
Here´s a pic of the twins if anyone is interested:

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Day 95 1 hatched, day 96 1 hatched, day 97 4 hatched, day 98 3 hatched and day 99 1 hatched. There´s one egg left which still seems to be ok, hopefully the next days will show.
And here´s another pic, gotta love those eyes and the tongue Smile

Fantastic! Super cute babies Very Happy

Congrats and hopefully the babies will do fine cheers

Thanks,

so far so good Smile

Another egg had twins inside, this time we got 1 of them alive but it´s smaller and weaker than the rest. The first one to emerge from the eggs shed it´s skin 13 days after birth and just ate a second pinkie by itself. The rest have turned grey and possibly will shed their skin in the next few days. Hopefully the rest will start eating as good as the first one did Smile

Sadly the one twin was a little deformed and moved very badly so it didn´t survive. But others seem to be fine, this one even chased the pinkie in my forceps around the enclosure and then took it nicely and gently Smile

Like their mother, they seem to be very tame. If only they´d be harmless..

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Great snakes, great photographs!
Thanks for sharing!

Thank you Guenter Smile

Only few who refuse rodents, others take every now and then live pinkies by themselves and 1 eating machine takes everything from forceps and started to take 6gr mice already. Few have had their second shedding, hopefully they´ll settle down and start eating with good appetite Smile

Wonder what colour they´ll become as parents are black...

i just saw that thread ... Beautiful snakes indeed, and definitely on of the "coolest" looking colubrid.
I wish you luck with turning them into feeding machines Wink

Cheers!
Anze

Thanks Anze,

definitely one of my favourite snakes Smile

Although i wouldn´t mind having Thelotornis here too, maybe in the future i´ll be lucky with that wish.
These kids are getting better every day and most have shedded for the second time now.

A little update on these.
Some are still picky feeders as others gladly take dead 3-6gr mice left in branches or the bottom and thats nice as it´s much easier than to tease feed (it can be very hard to get these to actually bite and not only to hit the mice with closed mouth, but usually when they bite they eat it).
Few new pictures as well:

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Man i wish they green eyes would stay as they get adult....

Congrats! Very lovley babys and parents too!
I would like to have some of this sp. Very Happy

Goodluck with them!
Alex

Stefan, how are little-ones doing? I am asking mostly about eating - do they all eat mice now, or you still have problems with feeding?

Cheers,
Anze

Thanks alexander, it´s an awesome sp. in my opinion Smile

Hi Anze, the little ones are doing fine. I have only 2 which are bad eaters, sometime eats and usually not. Others take ratpinkies with good appetite when left on a branch or on the ground. 1 which was among my best eaters (started much earlier to eat with good appetite than most) has started to refuse eating since it moved to another guy, don´t know how stressful these are at young age but metabolism seems to be pretty fast. Hopefully it´ll get back on track in time and maybe with a little help from lizards. Just seems strange as before that it ate very good and after the trip the other one has been eating as good as before. But individuals ofcourse can differ..

It´s almost time to reintroduce the male and female again, hopefully this time will also work Smile

Here's one of Stefan's babies, currently residing at my place Smile

In fact, has done so for a while now. Thanks again mate.

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Hate to admit it, but I forgot which sex this little cutie was. I'd like to say she, but...
Feeding this one has been easy; there's one corner in the terrarium to which I leave the food, and she will go pick it up when she feels like it.

Fantastic! Are the snake really that blue?

This is a species of snake I will def keep in the future!

These snakes are really stunning. I have a picture taken by Dave Atkinson on my page, with very much blue color

http://www.rear-fanged.com/dispholidus.html

Will update it soon, with other coloration.

Rgds Fabian

Veery nice pic again Christian ... and this little fella is absolutely gorgeous.

Np. mate, couldn´t think of a better home than there Smile

And nice pic you took, glad to hear that she´s (if i remember correctly it should be a female) that easy. The rest are just as easy to have and feed Smile

That blue seems to be more like a warning colour, although more visible during the feeding when the food stretches the skin. But they definitely look great as juveniles in my opinion Smile

Fabian, looking at the colours does it really look like that or could it be photoshopped or something? Looks great Smile

The adults are doing good. Although later than last year i introduced them again last saturday and the male started chasing the female right away. Have been pretty much at work so they could have copulated many times already but gladly i was lucky to observe copulation today Smile

Couldn´t get any good pics as it happened behind a branch and i didn´t want to disturb them any more, although they didn´t seem to care about me at all no matter what i did there.
So hopefully next year she´ll give me eggs and if i´m really lucky i could get something out of those Very Happy

But i really hate the waiting part...

Little update on this, last night she dropped a total of 17 eggs. One was bad but 16 looked good, few were a bit bigger so maybe they´ll have twins again inside like last time if everything goes well Smile

A crappy picture of the eggs which have now been moved to the incubator, pretty surprised she didn´t lay these on the more moist side of her enclosure but instead dug a hole on the drier side...
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Now the happy waiting begins Evil or Very Mad

... and we all are "thumps up" and waiting to get say hello to some amazing litlle snakes after few weeks/mths ... well done again Stefu

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