Sylphie's colubrids (pics heavy)

[Sylphie]

Woah, I wasn't on forums so long that most of my threads are now closed! We were super busy with looking for a new house, then we needed to move to another, temporary flat, and now we still are trying to buy the perfect home (it's harder than I thought it'd be).

So, I will create just one thread for all our colubrids. This way I can throw the random photos and updates in one place. At the moment we sold some of our snakes, some are still for sale and some will stay with us always ;)

At first I'll throw some pictures from today, both of these boys are now looking for new homes. If you are from Europe feel free to ask about them.

Heterodon nascius poss het. toffe-belly, he's around 1 year old at the moment:

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Elaphe schrenckii het. melanistic, he was our holdback from last year. Unfrotunately, while popping as a hatchling showed female recent probing told us it's a male. So even if he's the sweetest, calmest snake I ever had we still don't really need anouther male. I'm sure he'll make a great pet for someone!

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There should be updates on all our other snakes in the next few days. Hope someone still remembers me here, haha!

[Albert Clark]

Welcome back Sylph! How can we forget you with all those amazing animals? Good luck with the house hunting, i am trying to buy in Northern California so i feel you.

[Sylphie]

Welcome back Sylph! How can we forget you with all those amazing animals? Good luck with the house hunting, i am trying to buy in Northern California so i feel you.

Hi Albert! Hopefully I will now have more time to look thorough the forums and write some posts. I have so many pictures to share now, haha!
Hunting for houses can be really frustrating, good luck for you too!

[Albert Clark]

Hi Albert! Hopefully I will now have more time to look thorough the forums and write some posts. I have so many pictures to share now, haha!
Hunting for houses can be really frustrating, good luck for you too!

Thanks! Really good to hear from you. :)

[EL Ziggy]

Awesome critters Sylphie. Best wishes house hunting Sylph and AL!

[Sylphie]

Thanks Ziggy!

Today I'll spam you with pictures of the snakes that are no longer with us. Some are back from last year or even older so you may recognize them. I just thought that since photobucket deleted them all I will share them again here.

First, our poor Callisto, Elaphe schrenckii, she died in February this year.
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And our Thamnophis marcianus boy that my husband named Plemnik. He was my only snake bite! Still can't believe that out of all the snakes the tiniest one was the one who decided to bite me. He was bought by a young girl that wanted small snake.

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[Sylphie]

The big, Orthriophis taeniurus friesei male named Zieft, that turned out to be slightly too long and strong for my tastes. So he went to an older man :)
https://i.imgur.com/f0vmyTY.jpg

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Yearling Orthriophis taeniurus taeniurus albin, male named Zieft II. Was really nice looking but super flightly, went to a woman who specializes in beauty snakes more than I :)
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[Sylphie]

Two corn females, the whiteout called White who was having super poor immune system. After all the problems she went thourugh I felt like she deserved a home where she would be the cherished favourite snake. So she went to a little girl (around 9 years old) who dreamed about white corn... and since her father is one of the very reputable breeders in my country I felt like she was going to a perfect home when she will be favourite pet but still have the proper care of someone experienced.
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And albino Redhead who is now with my father :) He also got one normal female from us, but I don't have any pictures.
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[Sylphie]

And lastly our two Elaphe climacophora sisters that were sold in the last months. Started to turn out really nice looking but were such a biting devils to deal with...
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[Sylphie]

The rest of our colubrid crew is posted today! These are again all old pictures, some were posted, some not. I plan on doing a new photo session of all our reptiles in the next days (if the weather will be good enough) so I hope I will soon be able to post more recent pictures.

Drona, Heterodon nasicus het. toffe-belly female born in 2016 from Czech Republic:
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[Sylphie]

Julian, Pantherophis guttatus male born in 2013, he was my husband's first snake:

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[Sylphie]

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[Sylphie]

Of course there are also my most "famous" snakes. I can't describe how happy I am every time someone from the other end of the world writes to me saying that he/she saw pictures of these two somewhere and fell in love with the species. I guess they are also what "defines" me as a hobbyist since a lot of people writing with me are like "oh, you are that sylphie with the russian rats, right?".

So here we are, first Elaphe schrenckii melanistic male Orion, now 4 years old:
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[Sylphie]

Last is my very first snake Artemis, Elaphe schrenckii female born in 2013:
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[Sylphie]

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[EL Ziggy]

Orion and Artemis are both stunners. You sure can pick em Sylph. :)

[Sylphie]

Orion and Artemis are both stunners. You sure can pick em Sylph. :)

Thanks! After 4 years of owning snakes I realized I have much more "mature" approach now. I no longer jump on every occassion just because it's a deal, on the contrary, we sold all the ones that were nice looking but we weren't really attached to them. Now I like seeing pictures of all the species but I'm really picky about what to get for myself :)

I also noticed that I love all the ball, corn or hognoses morphs, but at the end of the day I look at my normals/wildtypes and I feel that I like them best of all the color variants. Shame the market is already flooded with normals as I don't want to breed and add to the unwanted babies lists.

To be honest less is better in my case too, when we were approaching 20-30 reptiles it was fun but now that we have around 10 it's a lot better for me. I can take better care of each of them and just enjoy watching them not having to worry where to place that one who outgrowed his enclosure or thinking how much the next mice order will costs. They became my pets again instead of just a "collection" and that's most important to me.

[Sylphie]

Few pictures from today!

Our last boy born in 2016, I don't understand why no one wants him so far :P

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[Sylphie]

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[Sylphie]

Drona, our female H.nasicus, she grows really nice:

https://i.imgur.com/4PHBUNj.jpg

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And our newest reptile, Junglecorn girl called TinyTail:

https://i.imgur.com/pyOmZ0B.jpg

[Sylphie]

I did some additional pictures of junglecorn girl, but it's hard to capture her real colors. The yellow is slightly greenish and it looks very cool, but the camera doesn't really catch this.

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[Sylphie]

Lastly we have our Elaphe schrenckii pair! Artemis, normal female, and Orion, melanistic male:

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[Sylphie]

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Since our ball python is in shed and the corn snake is ill I don't have any actual pictures of them (yet).

[kudzu]

Russians!! They're lovely, especially the melanistic. Sorry to hear about your corn snake. Hopefully it is minor & temporary.

[Sylphie]

Russians!! They're lovely, especially the melanistic. Sorry to hear about your corn snake. Hopefully it is minor & temporary.

Thank you! Our poor corn snake had some bad "flu" and parasites but he's already declared fully cured by our vet, just needs to recover his lost weight since he was really, really thin. He gained near 30 grams in last month so if he keeps this up he'll be perfectly fine in the next month or two :)

[Sylphie]

Just a quick and sad update: I needed to sell Orion (melanistic schrenckii) last month since we needed money asap and he was the most "expensive" snake we had :( I'm so sad about it, I'm not really sure I will get back to breeding snakes.
We have 10 eggs from Artemis&Orion pairing but I'm not sure if they will hatch since some of them seem to be too dry while others seem to have issues wth mold... It looks like they have too much humidity and are too dry at the same time.

I also needed to rehome two of our three beardies since our living conditions changed a lot and we couldn't fit proper enclosures in our current flat. Now we have 8 reptiles and 2 dogs and it looks like it will stay this way for foreseeable future. Even if we will be able to fit more enclosures one day, I'm not really sure if I will still want to get more reptiles as after being "forced" by life to rehome three of my favourites I kinda lost a small part of my heart for this hobby.

Good thing is that one of the beardies went to my sister and I visit her a lot while the other one is with my friend so at least I can still be a part of their life.

[toddnbecka]

Sorry to hear about the downturn. Mom used to say "Life is what happens while you're making other plans" and I've found that too true too often. What are you doing differently with the eggs than the last clutch? Those seemed to go quite well.

[Sylphie]

Sorry to hear about the downturn. Mom used to say "Life is what happens while you're making other plans" and I've found that too true too often. What are you doing differently with the eggs than the last clutch? Those seemed to go quite well.

Thanks, and that's exactly what happened to us too. With eggs the funny thing is that I keep them at the same temp, in the same substrate, in the same boxes... I don't know if they will make it or not. Maybe it has to do with the fact that we needed to move to new flat while Artemis was already "pregnant" and even though the eggs looked perfect after laying something is wrong inside of them? Hard to tell really.

[toddnbecka]

One reason I started with breeding Dominican mountain boas, no eggs to incubate. The climacophora pair look to be mature now, will see about breeding them next. I ran across an article about incubating colubrid eggs using an aquarium heater in a tub of water to maintain temp and humidity, with the eggs resting on nylon stockings stretched out above the water. May try that method myself, seems like less worries than using vermiculite or other media.