Who keeps Mambas?

Here at HerpaWorld we keep Dendroaspis polylepis and Dendroaspis angusticeps.
Mambas are incredible as they seam to be very intelligent.

who else keep Mambas?

Hi Mario,

as you know already, out of other snakes we keep also mambas. At the moment we have in collection the following species:

* Dendroaspis angusticeps (South African form, which could be separate species in the future)
- we lost our breeding pair of angusticeps from Tanzania last year, unfortunatelly at the moment when female was carrying 9 almost fully developed eggs inside... We will get new animals from Tanzania this year for sure...
* Dendroaspis jamesoni kaimosae
* Dendroaspis polylepis from Tanzania
* Dendroaspis viridis

In 2 days we are awaiting shipment from SA, where should be presented more D. angusticeps and CB babies of SA D. polylepis (just 2 pcs, but we are very happy about them, although at the moment we don`t know gender of them). I am working on importing of nice group of adult black mambas from Swaziland, which should follow in approx. 2 weeks. They are big, and we are looking forward to have them over here...

On this Saturday we are getting our first specimen of Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni, huge adult male in trade. I hope to get more specimens of this species, we always wanted to have them... So, according to mambas, we have very exciting near future over here...

Our breeding male of Dendroaspis viridis was over 2 females already, so we hope for more clutches from this species this year. One more female is still waiting for the male. We are hoping in the best, as 2 of these females are bred by us as F1 generation. If we have success with them now, it would be already F2 generation bred over our facility, and it`s something we are looking for within all species. Breeding male is unrelated to this females, so we are not mixing father with daughters...

Here are few pictures from period when we built new cages for our "tree" mambas...















The cages aren`t build for public exposition, but for breeding purposes... Mambas like them so far, and when everything goes well, you can be surprised by nice event as that on next pictures...

i am inpressed by your cage system peter!

wood is just not the right material here in the philippines, as termites would eat it in a flash. i am planning right now big outdoor enclosure for our mambas. we keep this time 2.1 Dendroaspis angusticeps and 1.1 Dendroaspis polylepis. both species are awesome and i am crazy with them.

your idea with your hiding-boxes will be definitely be considered in my design of the cages. i would just love to see my snakes outdoors coz we have such perfect climate here for them. and mambas such nice active animals, there is always somethings who can be observed by watching them, especially if you keep them in groups, i can clearly see they love company.

i keep my fingers crosses for your breeding efforts, especially on D.viridis and D.jamesoni (you know where to send some babies, dont you?)!



thanks for sharing
Cheers
Mario

Real nice cages Peter. She stacked up those eggs all nice and neat too didn't she? I've only had 0.1 D. polylepis and 0.1 D. angusticeps. Before I moved I sold them to Dean Ripa. He needed females of both species to go with his males, and since I'm more into Cobras and PNG/Irian Jaya/Oz elapids, I decided not to keep the Mambas. To be honest, I'd rather deal with Taipans, King Browns and Common Browns, than Black Mambas.

Randy Ciuros wrote:

. To be honest, I'd rather deal with Taipans, King Browns and Common Browns, than Black Mambas.

why is that Randy?


cheers

nice setup. i have to agree with Mario that wood isnt the best material in PI with all the heat and humidity too.
anyway, im surprised the "nest box" worked for them well.

sorry for my ignorance but does this species really deposit eggs in high nests?

just probably like in the wild, crevises of dead tress or old nest of birds?

goodluck with them! your female certainly looks pretty

hi andrew,

thats more of an hiding box....
it is much safer, as you can look the animals inside and work safe inside the terrarium. second, yes -they do lay there eggs inside the boxes as they feel safe and undisturbed.
in the wilderness, mambas are known to deposit their clutches inside hollow trees, rotten and moist is what they like, diba?


cheers
Mario

thanks for the info bro. Are all mambas semi arboreal species? or they arent?

[/quote]Randy Ciuros wrote:
. To be honest, I'd rather deal with Taipans, King Browns and Common Browns, than Black Mambas.

why is that Randy?



From my experience keeping 0.1 E.A. Green Mamba, 0.1 Black Mamba, 0.1 2 Taipans, 2.1 King Browns, 1.1 Eastern (Common) Browns, and1.0 Papuan Blacksnake, I would rather deal with the Black Mamba the least. The PNG/OZ stuff may have more toxic venom, but the attitude of the Black Mamba was almost always a bad intentioned one. Maybe it was just the particular Black I had, but she always gave me more attitude than any of the others. The Green Mamba wasn't bad at all.

I keep a pair of D.jamesoni kaimosae

Mario Strasser wrote:

I keep a pair of D.jamesoni kaimosae

did you have some breeding success with them mario?
i am looking badly for cb, as i always here from everybody, all the wc kept dying all the time. seem to me, such many folks have had a very negative experience.


cheers
Mario

Hello Mario !

My pair is CB. The mother was caught in the wild and was kept by Cem Toygar. I got my pair as babys (50cm). They´re now three years old and are doing very well.I´ve never had problems with them in any way.I´ll hope to get offspring someday.If you like I can send you some pictures the next days.

cheers,

Mario S

hello Mario...

yes, please send some picture...!
i cant get enough of them..


thanks for the information as well




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Mario

Mamba's belong to my all time favorites!
Here are some shots of my Dendroaspis viridis:










Cheers,
Harold

Wow, amazing picture and amazing animals...
thanks for sharing them...


cheers
mario

a looker indeed!!!

yes andrew... they are just stunning animals!


cheers
Mario

i miss her so much...

I´m keeping all species
D. polylepis, D. angusticeps, D. viridis, D. jamesoni jamesoni and finally D. jamesoni kaimosae. I love them all
Cheers
Benjamin

For an interested outsider as I am, this thread is really interesting. I would not have thought that so many people keep mambas. These are the snakes I maybe have the greatest respect of all if I would encounter one in the wild though I read and heard that this species are rather calm after some period in captivity.

I am looking forward to read more in this thread

Hello together,

instead to contribute at the introductions, I write my first post here at "Dendroaspis".

Why?

Because Dendroaspis are my all over favorites! I am keeping snakes now from over 30 years and Dendroaspis now for 15 years.
I started with D. angusticeps and I think it was a wise decision! I grow with them, while observing Dendroaspis behavior. And angusticeps have a nice behavior!
Later on I have got D. viridis, D. polylepis and D. j. kaimosae. Only D. j. jamesoni are missing in my collection at the moment.
With D. angusticeps I am breeding every year since 10 years, but now my old female is very old and the guy died last year. I kept some young individuals for my collection. At the moment Michael Kreuzer and me keep our elder D. angusticeps together and it might be possible that there are some offsprings this year, but it is not sure. In the future I will protect the old female from pregnancy, because it is not easy for her. I think in the nature it would be similar and old females can avoid pregnancy.

With my D. viridis it is nearly the same. My female must be now around 20 years old, but she is a very superior animal and the guy is without a chance at mating season. @ all: I am looking for a young female! (who don´t do this!!)

My D. polylepis (1 South african couple and a mixed couple (South african guy and Tansanian female)) are to young for breeding at the moment. We will see, what happens in the future! They are great individuals, really characters!

My D. j. kaimosae are the animals of Roger Aeberhard from Switzerland (you should know them from Roger´s article in the Reptilia last year). They are really crazy animals but after 6 month I arranged with them. They mated in late november 2008 and I think she is pregnant now. I hope for a better breeding success than at Roger´s place (a lot of unfertilzed eggs, dying newborns), because they should have reached their full maturity now (they are 6 years old now). It was the same experience with my D. angusticeps: the first years were very mixed, but when they were 7 or 8 years old, they started a great run!

There are some other venoms at my place like Naja nigricincta woodi (30 years old guy and - I think - the last mohican in Europe), Daboia r. russelli (with a lot of cb´s from 2008 ) and Crotalus polystictus.

I hope I find with venomland a good place for talking about venomous snakes, my first impression says "Yes"!

Regards and greetings from Germany

Frederik

Hi Frederik
Welcome here!
Peter

What´s up Harold, where are your pictures going on?
Hi Frederik, wellcome here
Cheers
Benjamin

Hi Benjamin,

there were some server problems, sorry.
But it looks it has been fixed again.


@ Frederik:
Welcome at Venomland!

Cheers,
Harold

really beautyfull shots
Cheers
Benjamin