Check out the color difference of these Rhino Vipers

[cobraman]

http://thereptileroom.org/photos/DSCN1052.JPG

BW (or anyone that may know) is the one on the left some odd color phase?

[Gregg M]

Hey Ray,
Does not look like any special color phase...... Looks like locality spacific coloration....... Not uncommon but beautiful just the same........ How big is that girl????? What about 3, 3 1/2???? She has a good set of horns on her...... Hey if you can get a side view of the face markings, I could get you a pretty close exact locality.....

[cobraman]

Thanks Gregg. It came in on our last Uganda shipment, but the other 20 looked normal. She is just over 3 feet (and mean as hell).

[Gregg M]

Yeah,
She looks real clean...... I would not have guessed Uganda..... She was most likely caught outside of Uganda....... Maybe alittle more East like Kenya west of Nairobi around the Lake Victoria area...........

[BWSmith]

Locallity variation would be my guess. Very Pretty.

[Gary O]

Beautiful Ray! That one on the left is cool looking.

[MsTT]

Pretty, but if you want them to be around long term, please check for the presence of some particularly nasty parasites that can encyst in a rhino viper's muscle tissue or hang out in the lungs and go undetected for months in fecals. A tracheal wash would be a helpful protocol. An absolutely accurate dosing schedule of injected Ivermectin (no fooling around by estimating doses) followed by a course of Levamisole may be helpful in the typically parasitized wild caught rhino viper, though it's always important to use good diagnostic tools to identify the parasites first. Shotgunning with drugs is risky, but so is leaving a WC rhino untreated.

[BWSmith]

Yup, i had an adult WC Rhino die of lungworms several years ago.