Post Your Biggest Baddest Colubrid Pics

[gonesnakee]

HERE'S MR. NASTY MY MALE BREEDER VIETNAMESE BLUE BEAUTY. DOES HE LOOK HAPPY IN HIS NEW HOME LOL Mark I. :p

<img src="http://members.shaw.ca/gonesnakee/MR NASTY.JPG"width="600">

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[Tim_Cranwill]

This girl thinks she's Mike Tyson with all of the jabs she throws! :D Actually, she's calmed down a fair bit but I still don't trust her. ;)

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/475rocky-med.jpg

[gonesnakee]

Here's one of a Good Boy gone Bad heh heh Mark I.
<img src="http://members.shaw.ca/gonesnakee/LEGGO OF ME.JPG"width="600">

[Scales Zoo]

Here is a picture of what recently was our nastiest colubrid. It is now owned by Katt and Vanan.

It is a "Chinese King Rat snake" aka Stinking Godess

In the picture, the always brave Jonathan Wright, wrangling the beast in my backyard. Standing beside him is Australian zoologist Rick Van Veen holding our female and very tame Taiwan Beauty.

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/763rickjon.jpg

[Joe]

I don't own this guy anymore (too bad I know) but he was about the nastiest I owned(colubrid), chewed on a buddy of mine once
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1384728-med.jpg

[Dr. Bryan Fry]

Here are mine, these are of one of our keeled rat snakes, Ptyas carinatus. Truly magnificent but nutcases. They hit 4 meters and can just about nail you in the face from the ground (and can leave some serious scar tissue). I'd love to see them start being bred in the US.

[img]http://www.venomdoc.com/ptyas_carinatus/CARHI7.jpg[img]

[img]http://www.venomdoc.com/ptyas_carinatus/CARHI9.jpg[img]

[img]http://www.venomdoc.com/ptyas_carinatus/CARHI11.jpg[img]

Like pretty much all other 'colubrids' they of course have venom and its packed full of neurotoxins like most species in the Colubrinae family ;-)

Cheers
Bryan

[Derrick]

hey Doc you need to close those image tags:) [/img]

[Dr. Bryan Fry]

yeah, I figured that out just after I posted. Duh. I hate it when I do that ;-)

Here they are again to save people the arduous trip to the key board

Cheers
B

http://www.venomdoc.com/ptyas_carinatus/CARHI7.jpg

http://www.venomdoc.com/ptyas_carinatus/CARHI9.jpg

http://www.venomdoc.com/ptyas_carinatus/CARHI11.jpg

[Vanan]

*drool* Yea I've seen those pics of the P. carinatus. I would love for anyone to breed ANY of the Ptyas!! Dream is to get a P. mucosus but that'll be a while!

[gonesnakee]

What no pics Vanan. We want to see pics not drool LOL Mark

[Dr. Bryan Fry]

Hey Ryan/Vanan

Which species is the one in the pics above? It is truly a stunning snake. As for P. mucousus, they are not hugely impressive, there are much better ones. Keep onto Duncan in Bali for P. carinatus or Sam Li in Hong Kong for other Ptyas (he has some very sharp ones he exports). Also, if you can find anyone importing from Malayasia there are stacks of P. carinatus crawling around there.

Cheers
Bryan

[MouseKilla]

Dr. Bryan,

Good God Almighty that box looks like a crime scene!LOL! Did that guy make that mess while the pics were being taken? My Eastern King does that sometimes, not just musk but the whole menu!lol!

[Nett]

Here is a few of mine ........hehehehehe ;)


http://redtailboa.net/gallery/data/65b9eea6e1cc6bb9f0cd2a47751a186f/420_p7129.jpg

;)

So sorry ........didnt read the whole title.......

:rolleyes:

[Beardonicus]

Uhhh.....last time I checked, ETBs, GTPs and D'Albert's pythons were boids.......nice leucy ratsnake though!

[Dr. Bryan Fry]

We were trying to get in and clean the cage but the snake (as you can tell) wasn't being terribly cooperative! ;-) Their jaw power is unbelievable, combined with lots of very sharp teeth the prey bleed all over the place. So it was very much a crime scene ;-p

Cheers
Bryan

[Scales Zoo]

Dr. Fry, the snake in the picture is an Elaphe carinata, more likely an E. c.carinata, than E. c. yonaguniensis or E. c. deqenensis - two other and more rare subspecies of Elaphe carinata.

They are called a stinking goddess because of their musk. It doesn't smell, to me, like something that could be created by any animal. Sometimes, it has a plastic or petroleum type smell, and if not washed it off with cold water right away, the smell seemed to intensify, and could stay for days.

I hope Vanan enjoys her finer qualities as much as I used to.

Ryan

[Nett]

Originally posted by Beardonicus
Uhhh.....last time I checked, ETBs, GTPs and D'Albert's pythons were boids.......nice leucy ratsnake though!


So sorry .....Didnt read the whole title ........But those are the meanest of the mean at my house :D

[gonesnakee]

Nett, They were worth the view while they were there anyhow, LOL. Lets see ya start a new thread elsewhere to show em off as they should be seen : ) My little male LTR thinks hes quite tough too, I'll have to dig up a pic. Mark

Found one, he's much bigger now (pics approx. a year old), but has calmed down some, lucky for me LOL M.I.
<img src="http://members.shaw.ca/gonesnakee/YOLK.JPG"width="600">

[Dr. Bryan Fry]

Ryan,

That was certainly a very sharp snake indeed ;-) As for the smells, I have a project going on that exact thing right now, figuring out what gives the snakes their lovely smells ;-) It will be interesting to see the differences between the different lineages, particularly in regards to the fact that the aquatic species alway seem to stink the worst (e.g. water snakes such as Nerodia).

Cheers
Bryan

[MouseKilla]

Mark,

How would you behave if you had to go around wearing pink all the time and had just polished off a bottle of NyQuil? Or is he just pissed cuz you tried to give him the kid's stuff?lol

[MouseKilla]

http://imagestation.com/picture/sraid99/pc007e0a101d7acbeaf865182e673561b/f9ea4a55.jpg.orig.jpg

Hope that worked. I've posted this guy before, he just hates me plain and simple.

[gonesnakee]

Whats wrong with wearing a little "pink" ; ) & pounding some Nyquill now & again, "Just to take the edge off" (Kevin Spencer) LOL Mark P.S. No pic bro

[MouseKilla]

Yeah, I don't have a clue what I'm doing...lol

[JD@reptiles]

i have some pretty good shots. but i need to upgrade my ssnakess.com photo account first.

http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/562bullsnake.jpg
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/509/562mouth4-med.jpg
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/562DSC00147-med.JPG
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/562DSC00148-med.JPG
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/562DSC00136-med.JPG
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/562DSC00134-med.JPG
http://ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/562vinesnakefeeding_007-med.jpg

[Tim_Cranwill]

Mark, I love that LTR shot! Killer pose. :D

Jordan, wicked pics, man. That hondo looks like he's on a mission. ;)

[gonesnakee]

Alright Jordan, glad to see you jump on the wagon! Great pics! M.I.

[JD@reptiles]

thanks guys :)

[Katt]

Mark, that looks like Yolk'z best side!!