Candoia aspera

Hi everybody,
I want to share pictures of my new Candoias with you!
I hope you like 'em Smile

female:

male:

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Markus

Hi Markus,

Some years ago, i kept one and i had some difficulties to feed it.

Yours, they eat mice without problems ??

yes both are going on prekilled mice

I'm feeding all of my snakes in plasik boxes to avoid a conflict, but the aspera male has to be fed in his terrarium otherwise he denies the food

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CBs?
For my interest, Markus: easy to get? As far as I know they are endangered.

it's a little bit diffucult, because they are not very popular in austria and lots of them arent as well coloured as mine, but after I got my pair, I have seen some of them on the Exotica...

But other subspecies are more common, so you realy often see C. carinata paulsoni...

If you are intrested: http://www.pythons-boas.de/ Reinhold Maugg somtimes got some, or you have to search the web for breeders (there are some, but not many)

My pair should be old enough to breed, but I'm not sure.
If they breed I'll post it here for sure ;-)

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Markus

The whole genus is really interesting..
Some years back I almost bought a pair of these beauties. Nowdays you see some CB babies for sale in Sweden etc. Hope you're breeding plans goes well.

Nice little fake vipers Very Happy

Sami

I've just taken some new pics of my candoias, so here we go:

portrait of my male:
Candoia aspera Cimg0036rx3

and my female in her typical position in the plant pot:
Candoia aspera Cimg0147ib7

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Guest

cool snakes Cool

Aspera are really cool snakes!
Here's a pic of my old female aspera
Candoia aspera Aspera-web

Awesome, I realy love this red coloration of this one...
do you have experience in breeding them???

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Guest

nice specimen,i realy love the red one's Cool

i hope to get them myself in nice red this year Very Happy

No, I never bred my pair. I think my female was too young to be bred.

But try reading
http://www.kingsnake.com/candoia/book.html
http://www.kingsnake.com/candoia/
The author, Jerry Conway, is also very helpfull, if you e-mail him.

I got mine from Reinhold Maugg. He sometimes have red specimens for sale. I find him a bit expensive though.

Guest

thanx for the links,very helpfull, yes i know rheinhold maugg, i have seen them on his table last snakeday
i think very nice red aspera,but i already spend my money on some polystictus then Laughing

ill keep an eye on his website anyway

greetz
dave

Hi Markus,

we breed C.asper for the two last consecutive years.
well, we do have our trouble with getting them started.

Candoia aspera 7610

as we dont force-feed our snakes (with all this babies it would be quite difficult for us), i have experienced that almost around 50% would never eat and die, the others will start on pinkie mice and do well. if they are started, they are not difficult at all. the small rackers are just nasty (all of them) and they have as babies already an nasty bite. i am always surprised how fast they can strike. (got me always).

klick HERE if you want for more informations

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Mario

Guest

can i print your page Mario?its good info

greetz

dave pauwels wrote:: can i print your page Mario?its good info

greetz

sure, feel free to use it.

Guest

thanx