Reptileman�s VenomLand

A few pics of D polylepis

Lourance Klose — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:51:20 GMT

Hi. a few pics i took of my young female.

Thanks

Kingbrown snakes? anyone has experience..

Mario Lutz — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:39:51 GMT

did anybody have had his hands on them already?

id their any possibility to purchase a pair anywhere in the world legally?

thanks

Mario

Phyton molurus try to swallow keepers head

Karsten Hoer — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:21:06 GMT

Hello,

here is another wonderful herpstory. A phyton molurus try to swallow the head of his keeper during maintanacework in the cage.

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/vermischtes/2008/10/06/python-will-kopf/von-pflegerin-verschlucken.html

Like always only a verry scary storry.

some nice homepage�s II - this one is even worst

Mario Lutz — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:14:08 GMT

this one:

http://www.venomoussnakes.net/

is even worst! it looks professional and it has that much very wrong informations on it, i am speechless.

who ever is in charge of that page, just find real peoples with snakes - and talk to them before you publish some stuff like that!

honestly - take this page of the web!

especially - showing off handling skills like in this

Video pal, thats painful man and dangerous.. it will kill you one time - get yourself some ...

Vipera berus in Germany

Carsten Fr�mberg — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:25:27 GMT

At the last weekend I found my first snakes in the wildness

5 juvenile Vipera berus.

We searched for over 3 hours and found first one skinning of an adult and one death lizard. On the heading back then we found them.

Skinning

death lizard

Habitat

First Vipera...where is it ;-)

Second one

Third one

Fifth one

A Tortoise May Be Bred Back Into Being � Giant Tortoises of Galapagos

Mario Lutz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:30:14 GMT

By Henry Fountain, 9/22/08, New York Times,

Efforts to restore populations of the giant tortoises of the Gal�pagos Islands have been among the world�s most visible and successful conservation programs. But the work came too late for several of the 15 generally recognized Gal�pagos species.

Or did it? Extensive DNA research on museum specimens and existing tortoise populations suggests there is the potential to restore Geochelone elephantopus, which lived on the island of Floreana.Charles ...

Historical DNA Analysis Reveals Living Descendants Of An Extinct Species Of Gal�pagos Tortoise

Mario Lutz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:28:11 GMT

Nikos Poulakakis* Scott Glaberman*, Michael Russello, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Claudio Ciofi 8214; Jeffrey R. Powell*, and Adalgisa Caccone*

+Author Affiliations

*Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520;

*Unit of Biology and Physical Geography, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada V1V 1V7;

*Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2190, Australia; and

8214;Department of Evolutionary ...

Gators Gone - Where They're Usually Plentiful, Few Remain After Hurricane Ike

Mario Lutz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:24:54 GMT

Anahuac, Texas - In this town on the edge of the Trinity Bay, alligators normally outnumber people three to one, and the annual Texas GatorFest draws 30,000 people - more than 10 times the town's population.

But not this year, not with Hurricane Ike. The storm forced the cancellation of the festival and made the gator hunting season a shadow of its normal self.

Wildlife officials say the gators' habitat and food sources also took a significant hit and it may take time for the population ...

Offspring for sell or trade

Karsten Hoer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:42:03 GMT

Hello,

i have some offspring for sell or trade.

Bothriechis schlegelii �08

Chryptelytrops albolabris �08

Tropidolaemus subannulatus �08 from Sulawesi (from 2 different females)

Cerastes cerastes �08 from Tunesia (picture is showing the adults)

Chryptelytrops purpureomaculatus �07

just send me an e-mail to karsten_hoer@hotmail.com

Some Animals for Houten

Ralph T�mmers — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:41:23 GMT

I just want to reduce my collection before new animals coming to my Reptile room

I offer following specs ,to pick up or deliver to Houten:

<<<1.2 Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti Nz 06>>>

<<<1.1 Bothrops Asper (Costa Rica) Nz 07>>>

<<<0.0.1 Sisturus milliarius barbouri Nz 02>>>

<<<0.0.1 Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix Nz 07>>>

Georgia Turtles� Future Slippery - Unprotected: Law Treats 13 Freshwater Species No Better Than Pests, And Experts Fear Some Are In Big Trouble.

Mario Lutz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:15:50 GMT

By Mark Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sunday, September 14, 2008

There may be harder ways to make $800 in a week, but Kirk DeKalb doesn�t want to know about them. He�s waded swamps, swatted mosquitoes and run the very real risk of nasty bites, just to pocket that amount.

And that�s on a good week, DeKalb says.

A bad week? Well, at 75 cents to $2 a pound for a kicking, angry snapping turtle, he�s not getting rich.

�If I work hard, I can make $800 to $1,000� trapping ...

Are Green Anoles Disappearing From Florida?

Mario Lutz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:12:57 GMT

By Karen Tremmel, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

Tampa Bay Newspapers on-line Edition

How beautiful it is to watch the dazzling, emerald green anole bask in the morning sun upon the back gate.

A couple of weeks ago I was by mere chance afforded the opportunity to shoot firsthand snapshots of the mating of two green anoles in my garden.

Fortunately I had a long lens close by which provided me some comfortable distance from the amorous pair. They seemed to pay me no mind as I snapped ...

Yearly Floods Cause Crocodile Escapes From Farms in Vietnam

Mario Lutz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:11:49 GMT

Hanoi � 9/17/08, Earth Times, Vietnamese farmers in the southern province of Dong Nai have caught 14 crocodiles that escaped from crocodile farms during floods last week, a commune official said Wednesday. The crocodiles broke out of their cages on unidentified farms in the region during floods on September 10 and made their way into rivers and streams.

Since then, villagers in a commune called Phuoc Tan, 70 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, have gradually been recapturing the reptiles.

Police ...

DOCTORAL POSITION SNAKE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY AT OHIO STATE

Mario Lutz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:09:43 GMT

I am seeking a PhD student to join my research group starting in September 2009 to begin

studies in the general area of snake evolutionary ecology. Recently, a major research focus

of the lab has been investigating questions about the evolutionary, ecological, and

functional basis of venom variation using rattlesnakes of the genus Sistrurus as a model

system. I am interested in recruiting students who will build on the results of our previous

venom research by developing their ...

CNAH PDF Library

Mario Lutz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:08:02 GMT

The Center for North American Herpetology is pleased to announce that over 900 titles

from numerous journals and periodicals are now available as gratis downloads from the

CNAH PDF Library. The list is searchable by author, year date, journal, and subject. Users

can read a title using Adobe Acrobat Reader or download it for printing using Adobe

Acrobat. This permits herpetologists to download and print only those titles of specific

interest to them. We encourage authors to continue ...

Hello from Constanta/Romania

Peter Pitz — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:16:13 GMT

I am Peter Pitz from Germany, living at Black Sea Coast in Constanta/Romania. My age is 55 years and I have 4 children back home in Germany. My profession until 2005 was chemistry in the German waste & recycling business, things such as treatment of paint sludges, breaking oil-in-water emulsions, neutralisation of acids, detoxification of galvanic concentrates etc. etc. etc.

When I came to Romania I focused on new business opportunities and also on new friends. One of them is a snake ...

Bitis rhinoceros

Guenter Leitenbauer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:40:01 GMT

Taken - You may have already guessed - at Peter's zoo

Of course no flash and therefor some noise, sorry.

Bearded Dragons Holidays at the Seaside

Guenter Leitenbauer — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:44:25 GMT

Taken at the www.exotica.at in a white plastic box ... looks somehow like a beach to me

(The picture was not manipulated otherwise a lot)

pregnant female selayar wagleri

Bartholin Yann — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:36:22 GMT

i'm glad to have a secnd female sub. celebensis pregnant, i'm expecting live babies but maybe unfertile eggs wait and see, i'm giving her fuzzy mice because se can take adult ones(without vomiting them few days after)

hi hope deliver before houten

regards

Yann

'07 squam babies

Derek Morgan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:26:17 GMT

I'm just showing off updated photos of some babies that I got late last year or early this year from friends who had some born. The first four are from my good friend Jim Campbell who was nice enough to share his good fortune with me, including some of the nicest of the two litters he had born.

The last two are two males from another keeper in Texas:

I hope you enjoy!

Derek

A few coxi's

Jakob H. Christensen — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:13:31 GMT

Here's a few pictures of some of my Oreophis porphyraceus coxi

An old shot of a juvie female

An adult male

And after a year, this

lead to this

They are supposed to hatch in 20 days, or so.

I have 2,2 adults, but only one of the females gave eggs this year (of course the smallest female )

Scam Involves False Snake Removal, Deputies Say

Mario Lutz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:25:09 GMT

The Tampa Tribune, September 26, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives are investigating a twist on an old robbery scam, this one involving thieves claiming they were hired to remove poisonous snakes from a homeowner's property.

Items are taken once the thieves gain access to the home, the sheriff's office said.

In past incidents, thieves told a story about checking for gas leaks, mold or termites.

The most recent robbery occurred about 11 a.m. Wednesday at a Pasadena ...

Job Opening - Amphibian Specialist In Atlanta

Mario Lutz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:23:33 GMT

The Atlanta Botanical Garden, located in midtown Atlanta, Georgia, needs a talented, energetic and knowledgeable Amphibian Specialist to work with the garden's world-renowned amphibian collection. The Atlanta Botanical Garden began its amphibian program in 1993 and currently houses multiple educational exhibits featuring frogs as well as maintains a large and very diverse off-exhibit collection for conservation purposes.

The candidate must be dependable, friendly and a self-starter and ...

DOCTORAL POSITION SNAKE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY AT OHIO STATE

Mario Lutz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:08:53 GMT

Ceratophora neonates

Derek Morgan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:32:43 GMT

I picked up three ceratophora neonates at the Columbia, SC reptile show and they are a hoot already. They of course were born from a newly imported female and they are TINY. I fed them pinky legs on Sunday night and they ate very well. I also picked up some adults and two of the females are gravid, so I just hope that the babies make it okay. I'll post pics of them later. Here are the cute babies:

Bothriechis aurifer

Tomas Bublik — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:50:37 GMT

This is my new treasure....Female is nice and looks healthy in good condition, but the male is much worse

If anybody has some experiences with keeping this snakes successfully Iĺl be very grateful...

Now I keep them in low temperatures,max 25 C a day and 20 C night.

Thanks a lot for your advices.

DRC squamigera

Andrew Hacket — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:14:57 GMT

These are new arrivals from the Congo which we photographed at Gavin Carpenters today!!! , which ones do u like the best? Firstly here all the males......

m1

m2

m3

m4

m5

m6

m7

Dispholidus typus

Guenter Leitenbauer — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:41:46 GMT

A shot from Peters fantastic zoo and his unusual dark coloured boomslangs:

2008 Arizona/New Mexico Field Trip

Derek Morgan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:02:00 GMT

I recently returned from my trip out to New Mexico/Arizona where I went herping with my brother, York, and a good internet friend, Paul. Thanks to American Airlines and an unexpected stay in DFW on Friday night, our trip was delayed until midday on Saturday. We headed straight out and hit some talus slopes, but it was getting late and it was really chilly, so we saw nothing. We decided to head back to lower elevation and do some road cruising for the night and our luck picked up.

We saw ...

Aspidelaps scutatus intermedius

Harold van der Ploeg — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:06:39 GMT

Today I took some shots of our Aspidelaps scutatus intermedius, the intermediate shieldnose snakes:

The animals do also belong to a friend of mine.

It's an adult breedingpair, so hopefully we will succeed in breeding them in nearby future.

We will see...

Cheers,

Harold

Reptile fair/exhibition in Vienna 26. Oct. 2008

Guenter Leitenbauer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:05:40 GMT

http://www.tropic-exotic.at/

No venomous, no large (>3m) Boidae allowed.

D. viridis from Peter's zoo

Guenter Leitenbauer — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:25:49 GMT

For me one of the most beautiful snakes

More Tropidolaemus babys in Ahlen

Karsten Hoer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:47:31 GMT

My wife found 10 subannulatus babys in the encloser. So my second female was also pregnant.

Now i am looking realy forward to go home and take a look at all the little cuties.

Any Dwarf Bitis keepers here ?

Marco Buegel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:03:21 GMT

Would be interested to get in touch with other Dwarf Adder keepers from all around the world, to share some experiences and maybe also to sell or buy some animals in the future.

I do keep the following (at the moment):

caudalis

cornuta

schneideri

peringueyi

atropos

have also had in the past: xeropaga and worthingtoni

Cheers

Marco

Anyone breed Cerastes vipera?

Vincent Lynch — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:06:52 GMT

Hi all,

Has anyone bred Cerastes vipera? I was reading "True Vipers: Natural history....." and it said this species is both oviparous and viviparous and that when laid, eggs hatch within a few hours. Seems odd, but maybe some here have first hand knowledge.

Best,

Vinny

B.atropos south africa

Andrew Hacket — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:57:25 GMT

Please enjoy this pictures of some lovely animals from the south african mountain ranges , also included is some habitat shot of

where this animals lives in the wild.

driving towards the mountains...

Finding the animals under the rocks....

Where the rocks are...

one of my animals..

Hope for you to enjoy !

Thanks

Andrew

Hello and welcome...

Michael Bollhorn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:15:38 GMT

Trigonocephalus today born.

As yet I get 16 alive babies and one died 2 houers after birth (female in the center from pic) and one was deformed dead born.

Maby one or two left inside the mother, I have to wait...

But 16/18 babies are great, it was the first time for the mother!

I�ll make better pictures after shedding...

I think its time.

Jimmy Cederhag — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:28:15 GMT

Hi !

I think its time to show some pictures of my animals.

Ill hope you like them.

And , my favourite

Cheers

Jimmy

Vipera aspis hugyi

Mario Schweiger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:53:20 GMT

Hello,

for a friend I�m looking for Vipera aspis hugyi, captive bred.

Only legal animals, please!

Hope, there is someone out in the vipers world!

Greetings

Mario

www.exotica.at - now with photo

Guenter Leitenbauer — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:53:51 GMT

Well ... I was on my first snake trade fair this sunday. I did not count the snakes and spiders and I did not count the people but there were so many animals - and still more people (as long as You do not count the mealworms, also selled there). Mostly cornsnakes, P. regius and so on, venomous were forbidden.

Some strange coloured P. regius up to 5000,- EUR (gulp).

I bought my first terrarium, some other stuff (spot, ...) because I finally could persuade my lady that I definitely need ...

Hello all.

Brian Petrie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:59:29 GMT

Hello everybody,

My name is Brian and I live in Bristol, south-west England. I am 56 years old, and have been interested in venomous snakes since I was six years old, when my auntie, who lived in Africa, brought me a book on African wildlife, and I saw a picture of a Gaboon Viper, I was hooked since that moment.

I have a little collection of 16 venomous snakes at home, and my main interests are snake venoms and snake venom poisoning.

I look forward to speaking to you all over ...

Dispholidus typus

Stefan Thomson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:42:21 GMT

These are one of my favourite snakes and would love to see more pictures about them, but somebody�s gotta start the topic so here goes :

Cheers

Stefan

snakebite - real or fake?

Peter Z�rcher — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:03:32 GMT

Hi at all! (from very cold Carinthia)

This viedeo has been posted on a austrian reptile forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vajhKUonFCs

The discussions wether it's real or not won't stop since then, of course.

Maybe our US friends here know more about this incidence?

Is it real or just "show"?

If it's real, where and when did it happen and who are these people acting with a large rattler that amateurish?

Cheers

Peter

morelia amethystina

dave pauwels — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:28:49 GMT

have for sale or trade: 1.2 morelia amethystina,they come from rheinhold maugg and

are for over one year in my collection,have been deparasitised and feeding well,all 3 are around 200cm

now. 500E for the trio or 400E pair/ 200E singel female. ill be in houten for the snakeday

trade for varanus gilleni O.1 or 0.0.2 or varanus glauerti

male

females

greetz

dave

Something completely different ... ctd.

Guenter Leitenbauer — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:05:01 GMT

... hope, it does not violate the forum rules. This shot was taken in the studio. The python regius is a snake from the model.

After an hour of taking photographs the snake began to get a bit nervous and we then immediately stopped the shooting.

hi to everyone

dave pauwels — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:45:42 GMT

hi fellow herp enthousiasts,

i'm dave from the neterlands,been keeping reptiles for about 14 years now.

nowday's my main intrest are crotalus sp,large bitis sp,bloodpythons,emerald treeboa's

and australian dwarf monitors

greetz

dave

Hi all from the UK

david nixon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:32:29 GMT

After reading many forums this has to be at the top along with a couple of others.

some very interesting topics on here along with knowlegable herpers, look forward to speaking soon

Cheers

Dave

More pics of C. purpureomaculatus

Stefan Thomson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:13:32 GMT

This is a species that i�ve wanted for along time and definitely will want more in the future

Some pice of the "elderly":

Some pics of the smaller ones:

Cheers

Stefan

C. insularis pics

Stefan Thomson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:48:30 GMT

Sadly i was able to get only one of these beauties, but i like albolabris very much so there�s no surprise that i like insularis too

Vipera berus

Harold van der Ploeg — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:59:18 GMT

Some shots of Dutch Vipera berus I took today:

Gr.

Harold