House Snake Collection

[TLD]

Just some house snakes.


Kobe
http://i.imgur.com/1gEkXpv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RLl2o4I.jpg


Peach
http://i.imgur.com/hY42YBQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xjRZaKZ.jpg


Orange
http://i.imgur.com/0Qdajy9.jpg


Jackdaw
http://i.imgur.com/eBalFUt.jpg


Rook
http://i.imgur.com/Eg7D6CO.jpg


Raven (new girl so not really any good photos yet.)
http://i.imgur.com/1xKFmZc.jpg

Thanks for looking!

[Scubadiver59]

Nice! I'm on a Rat Snake binge...maybe I'll hit those up later.

[Trouser Snake]

Awesome pics :)

[dannybgoode]

Love house snakes and that's a great collection you have.

[TLD]

Thanks everyone!

[whistlepig]

Great looking snakes! Love the eyes.

[jjhill001]

I love the all black ones. Is that a locality or subspecies thing or are they just random in the wild?

[Magdalen]

Oooooooh house snakes :D they are lovely. I have one myself

[TLD]

I love the all black ones. Is that a locality or subspecies thing or are they just random in the wild?

There is a subspecies of house snake, boaedon olivaceus identified by bright orange/red eyes and undivided subcaudual scales that is frequently quite dark. There is also a black color phase of boaedon fuliginosus which is what you most commonly find in captivity. You can also find mixes of the two commonly known as hobby olives :)

Oooooooh house snakes :D they are lovely. I have one myself

Yes I'm a fan of Thor! Such a cutie. He's got good a speckled contrast pattern I like.

[toddnbecka]

You can also find mixes of the two commonly known as hobby olives
I though that different species of house snakes couldn't interbreed? Never kept any myself, read that somewhere along the line.
Nice collection you have. I haven't run across any at the reptile shows, or I'd likely have at least one too.

[dannybgoode]

I though that different species of house snakes couldn't interbreed? Never kept any myself, read that somewhere along the line.
Nice collection you have. I haven't run across any at the reptile shows, or I'd likely have at least one too.

Yep - true B olivaceous are very difficult to find because of the crossing producing the 'hobby' ones. I'd love a true olivaceous and am holding out should I ever come across one.

[TLD]

I though that different species of house snakes couldn't interbreed? Never kept any myself, read that somewhere along the line.
Nice collection you have. I haven't run across any at the reptile shows, or I'd likely have at least one too.

I've seen instances of success as well as seen reports of people having issues. Laeticia Bx this year had a clutch of boaedon fuliginosus and boaedon lineatus hybrids. You can look on A C Snakes website and read their accounts of a boaedon capensis x boaedon lineatus breeding (unfortunately with photobucket tanking the pictures are no longer up). I know of successful capensis and fuliginosus pairings. Hobby olives by all reports are boaedon olivaceus x boaedon fuliginosus.

I honestly don't know which subspecies are unable to interbreed with which other subspecies. If I was a gambling woman looking at this old thread here (http://www.reptilescanada.com/showthread.php/9166-My-Nemesis) it looks like the little tan male is boaedon mentalis being paired up with a fuliginosus so from his reports I'd say at least mentalis is a no go with capensis or fuliginosus but really this is just me making a guess.

[Magdalen]

Yes I'm a fan of Thor! Such a cutie. He's got good a speckled contrast pattern I like.

Thank you :D he's a doll and people keep saying they like his pattern. I love Orange's color. I love those vivid oranges. Someone shared a photo of their blue eye Lucy cape house snake on a FB group that I found just lovely even tho it's not so vivid like I usually like.

[Trouser Snake]

They're all awesome but I like the look of the cape house snakes in particular, that's another possible first snake for me.

[TLD]

Some baby house snakes I have that are hatching!

https://78.media.tumblr.com/b9baa4fe25fed5ba65e9f451b683c729/tumblr_ozdkjzhvGp1undlw1o1_1280.jpg

https://78.media.tumblr.com/606c7729d1472afc782645b77064cd6b/tumblr_oze8tpvEHB1undlw1o6_1280.jpg

https://78.media.tumblr.com/08ef97267c8c9dd2d27e5f34422167d6/tumblr_ozfwf8aGrB1undlw1o1_1280.jpg

https://78.media.tumblr.com/ebaf7f2881fffa9f11833765859cb232/tumblr_ozfj6nZXfR1undlw1o1_1280.jpg

[dannybgoode]

Congratulations - house snakes rock and good to see someone working with them.

[Bandit]

Awesome. These have always intrigued me. I'm sure down the line I'll get one.

[Charis]

Great looking babies, congrats on the hatchlings!

[Aaron_S]

Thanks everyone!

If you have pure olives I want some please

[TLD]

If you have pure olives I want some please

I don't. :(

I'd love to find some myself! Feel like I need to go visit the Congo Basin at this point lol.

[Aaron_S]

I don't. :(

I'd love to find some myself! Feel like I need to go visit the Congo Basin at this point lol.

When you go pick me up a 4.4 (you know in case some die in transit or whatever)

[SerpentineDream]

Me too! I have some hobby Olives but that's as close as I have been able to get and those had to be imported.

[TLD]

lol. You got it!

[jjhill001]

Lol, the name Kobe I just imagine him grabbing a mouse and chucking it into his water bowl from across the cage.