New Red tailed green ratsnake (yellow Phase)

[BellyDraggers]

HI All

Just picked up two new male red tailed green ratsnakes to breed with our female. The one in the picture is the yellow phase. the other is the regluar green colouration.

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/bellydraggerreps/images/yellow%20phase%20ratsnake1.jpg

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/bellydraggerreps/images/yellow%20phase%20ratsnake2.jpg

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/bellydraggerreps/images/yellow%20phase%20ratsnake3.jpg

http://publish.hometown.aol.com/bellydraggerreps/images/yellow%20phase%20ratsnake4.jpg

What do you think?
Scotty & Les

[HeRpZ03]

Very nice, i've always wanted to get a pair of those. How are they when they're handled, are they just bluffers or do they bite often?

[Simon]

awesome animal~!!

great looking snake!!

[marisa]

Wow super neat. I like how defensive it is!

Marisa

[bistrobob85]

Wow, very nice snake! It's the first time i see one of these! It looks kinda hissing at the camera! My compliments!

phil.

[Vanan]

All the best in breeding them! About time we saw some CB stock in Canada! :)

[BellyDraggers]

Thanks all

Yes we defiantly hope to be breeding them soon after they settle into their new enclosures. I dont see many advertised for sale..

HeRpZ03 - They will tolerate being handled for a while but after a while they start to back up their threats with action..LOL they are very squirmy.When the animal was looking at the camera all he was doing was opening his mouth ready to strike but never did no hissing.

Scotty & Les

[vanderkm]

Very nice snakes - love the grey/yellow phase as well as the green ones. Would be very nice to see some captive bred in Canada - don't know that anyone here has had much luck producing them.

Best of luck with your breedings,

mary v.

[BellyDraggers]

Has anyone...heard of people or know of people breeding any phase of them?

Scotty & Les

[Katt]

I think most of us haven't have much luck keeping them alive much less breeding them.

Most are W/C's and die.

[Scales Zoo]

There was someone in Edmonton who bred them when they were still legal in Alberta.

We had attained a c.b adult female, which we now have in the freezer.

We also got a male, W.C, came into a petstore with a bunch of other ones. This one, Byron thought - might be a purple phase or something. Looked similar to yours in the picture.

We got it and the adult female, from Byron.

3 months later, It went blue, into shed, looked real purply greyish for 2 days, shed, and came oput pure black like an indigo snake.

I came home from work, and Sheila told me to go look at it, it looked different. I couldn't beleive it, weirdest thing I ever done saw! It is either a melanistic oxy, but from it's weird blue eyes, I think it is a black janseni. The one snake I've always wanted for years and years, above many others. Asian ratsnake x Indigo!!!!

I think I have pictures of Katt holding it over a year ago.

Since then, it rubbed up it's face really badly, in a cage while we were away, - and I don't think it will fully recover, and forever be scarred (DAMNIT!). But it appears to be healthy, and is eating and growing nicely, except for some missing scales.

Ryan

[TheRedDragon]

Wow! Those are both very nice! Good luck with the breeding project! :)

[BellyDraggers]

Hi All Great news

After picking up both there guys on Thursday and giving them a chance to settle into there new homes both of them took 1 small rat each. No hesitation at all a good sign anyhow. We have had the female now since she was a baby close to 3 years ago and she was a little harder to get started but eats like a pig now.

Cheers
Scotty & Les

[mannannan]

Gonyosomas are just awesome! I have a 2.1 adult group arriving in 2 weeks, that I hope to get going, producing-wise :)
Those grey/yellows really are something else, congrats on your catch!!

Btw, has anyone ever seen one of these with an actual red tail?

/Quensel

[BellyDraggers]

mannannan - They seen to come in Brown orange and grey but never red...lol So it is weird that they call them red tailed green ratsnakes..

Scotty & Les