Pictures. G. halys caraganus.

I just thought that I should show you some of my animals.

Here is the "Russian pitvipers". I keep 2.2 today, the males was born in 2005, and the ladies in 2007. Captiveborn animals, of course, and all animals are from Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan.
All are in hibernation at this moment..

Both males:

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One of the males:

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The other male:

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One of the females:

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And the two males again:

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Those are so fantastic snakes!! Well done! Have you ever had some breedings with them?

Cheers
LucasC.

Very very nice snakes!!!

veeeeeeery nice snakes mique!
they have very nice colours

Thank you very much, guys!!

Lucas: No, not yet. But I am hoping to be able to breed them in 2010. The females is quite small yet.

nice pics

Thanks for sharing
Cheers
Benjamin

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Gloidus are hard to find over here ,recently some came up for sale and were on the markes less than an hour when one guy bought all of them.He is a friend so I will seek offspring when he breeds

Very nice snakes !

Greetings

Thanks boys!!

Archie: If I succeed in breeding them the next season, I´ll be sure to tell about it.. Wink

Nice Miqe, very nice ... again.

If you breed them Miqe I may need to get some from you they are stunning!

I am a small terrestrial viper nut If it is small I like it.I would love to expand in to these types of asian vipers.Porthidium and atropoides are my main stuff but these guys are stunning thanks for shareing...They remind me of porthidium so much or small bothrops species just amazeing to me.

Greame: Well, of course, sir. Consider it already sorted..

Archie: Very Happy

They are the only european crotalid, at least as far as I know.

The genus Gloydius is the only members of Crotalidae native to Europe.

Fantastic snakes as usual Miqe!

k thats not helping its makeing me want them more

Hi out there,

I also love these smallgrowing eurasian pitvipers and keep several of them. If everything workes as it should do, I will be able to offer offspring of Gloydius blomhoffi siniticus, G. brevicaudus, G. halys caraganus, and G. intermedius (saxatilis) again next year.

Regards

Peter

Peter Schulze Niehoff wrote:: Hi out there,

I also love these smallgrowing eurasian pitvipers and keep several of them. If everything workes as it should do, I will be able to offer offspring of Gloydius blomhoffi siniticus, G. brevicaudus, G. halys caraganus, and G. intermedius (saxatilis) again next year.

Regards

Peter

How large is your group of G. h. caraganus? Do you have any localitydatas for them?

Hi Miqe,

I keep 2.4 of them. Two pairs are from Lake Balkhash, like yours are. The other two females are from Kazakhstan too, but without any informations about the exact locality.

Regards

Peter

Hello,

I have a group from Almaty in Kasachstan.
They bred for the first time this year.
They are bright orange with reduced pattern. All of the babies were patterned with pale pink to pale orange colour in the beginning, now as they are changing colour, all are getting more colourful (red, orange or pink), it looks like only those that were boldly patterned in the beginning keep their pattern.
The babies made problems in the beginning but all problems were gone as soon as they started to eat by themselves. From then they were just a pleasure, like the adults.

Rainer

Peter Schulze Niehoff wrote:: Hi Miqe,

I keep 2.4 of them. Two pairs are from Lake Balkhash, like yours are. The other two females are from Kazakhstan too, but without any informations about the exact locality.

Regards

Peter

Ok.. Nice! To bad that you don´t have localitydatas on the last two..

Rainer Fesser wrote:: Hello,

I have a group from Almaty in Kasachstan.
They bred for the first time this year.
They are bright orange with reduced pattern. All of the babies were patterned with pale pink to pale orange colour in the beginning, now as they are changing colour, all are getting more colourful (red, orange or pink), it looks like only those that were boldly patterned in the beginning keep their pattern.
The babies made problems in the beginning but all problems were gone as soon as they started to eat by themselves. From then they were just a pleasure, like the adults.

Rainer

Hello Rainer!!

I hope that you are all fine.

Do you have any pictures. It would be nice to see if there is any differences, I don´t think so, but still.. Mine was also pale pink with orange at first, but later they became more yellow with orange.

How many do you keep?

Hello Miqe,
my G. h. caraganus are an adult male that I got as an adult in 2005, looking like he does now and a 2007 cb female that had her first litter this year. She was dirty-yellow as a baby with faint pattern, then became yellow and later more and more orange. She is the lighter-coloured one on the foto of the pair.
Additionally I have 2,2 younger ones that should be ready for breeding in 2011.

First the adult male
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Second together with the female
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Their babies after their first shed
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Some of them when they had started to change their colour
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Father of my adult female
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Great looking animals, Rainer!!

Good luck in breeding them!

Hectic - they are stunning - First time I have seen them.

Very impressive, Rainer.

I never saw such nice brick-red, patternless Halysadders before. We will have to talk about that cute little guys in the nearer future ...

See you (in March?)

Peter