Hello from Québec, Canada

Hi everybody

I'm glad to be there and share with you ma passion for snakes;

for a short story; I love herpetology since the age of 10 (15 years this spring). From April to October, I make A LOT of field herping and I study species of amphibians and reptiles of my region, especially rare ones. Unfortunaly, we don't have ''official'' venomous species Crying or Very sad

!!! There are some old mentions of timber rattlesnakes in Québec, but nothing very serious with photos or specimen e.t.c.

But when cold come and snow fall, I work on venomous snakes Smile

I am actually working on a personnal database and I try to have at least 95 % of venomous species (excluding colubrids) in photo, draw, diagnosis e.t.c. I'm well started because I have now about 92 % of the 700 to 710 venomous species. But I still have a lot of question to ask (and I hope I can do it here, because usually on some other forums, people don't answer me or are simply not able to answer) Smile

!!!

For my personnal venomous snakes preference, i'll tell you now I love them all, because when I was younger, my interrest field was pratically only in elapidae.

For now, I think Iam in a good place to share and learn !!!

Cheers
Patrice

Hi Patrice,
Welcome to this forum, I am sure you will get most of your questions answered here, do you keep any reptiles at the moment?
All the best,
Brian.

Hey my friend Patrice!

Welcome here Very Happy

Thank you guys !!!!!!!!

No Brian, I didn't kept snakes since a couple of years. I usually do not consider myself as a keeper and actually I don't have enough place. I pass my time with herpetofauna on the field or in reading some document to increase my knowledge Smile

.But sometime, the idea of getting some specimens come in my mind. The problem with venomous species is where I live, it's forbidden. I swear to you that if it was legal, I would get a couple of cobra (haje, annulifera, samarensis) or maybe coral snake (I LOVE MICRURUS Very Happy

). But the problem is also that our medical system is not trained to treat snake bites adequately. Also, the nearest antivenom bank is far from where I live !

But on a way I found the law ridiculous, even really stupid; you can't get venomous snakes except if you are zoo, but you can easily get dangerous and|or agressive scorpions and spiders (A couple of time I saw Androctonus, Leiurus, Atrax, Latrodectus, Poecilotheria e.t.c.)

I'll conclude my ''keeping side'' : I am not a corn snake or ball python guy, even if it's possible that I keep those snakes in the future. I've always been looking for unusual species, for exemple recently, I saw a guy with an Oligodon ( Very Happy

so nice). Or another one with a Leioheterodon madagascariensis ( Very Happy

nice too). My love for coral snakes bring me to ask if it's possible to get some Pliocercus ( Very Happy

) !!! So I can give you a lot of exemple of unusual species I would get.

Hey hey, salut Marc !!!!!

Have a nice day

Patrice

Velcome Patrice.

Patrice Lavigne wrote:: I've always been looking for unusual species, for exemple recently, I saw a guy with an Oligodon ( so nice). Or another one with a Leioheterodon madagascariensis ( nice too). My love for coral snakes bring me to ask if it's possible to get some Pliocercus ( ) !!! So I can give you a lot of exemple of unusual species I would get.

Patrice

Here is a teaser from us Smile

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Ill hope you like it here.

Cheers
Jimmy

Thanks Jimmy, nice pics, it's exactly the kind of colubrid I'm looking for !!!!

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