Hey all

[caffers1982]

Hi everyone,

I actually regisitered here looking for a friend who seems to have dropped off the face of my earth...good news is I've found him and this looks like a great forum as well

My names Helen, I'm 29 and currently live in Stoke on Trent, England.

I've been keeping snakes for about 3 years, was more of a horsey girl before.

I currently have in my collection:

2.1 Northern Whitelipped pythons (Leiopython albertisi)

Heres some pics of Honey, my big 02 girl:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/h13.jpg

This is Bruce, my 05 male:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110708_083623.jpg

and this handsome fella is currently for sale...

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/wlp.jpg

Next up, my pair of macklots pythons (Liasis mackloti mackloti)

Male:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/mackm.jpg

Female:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/mack5.jpg

This is my little cb grass snake (Natrix natrix helvetica)

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110724_120710.jpg

A very bad photo of my Northern barneck (Morelia amethistina)

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110701_144118.jpg

and finally my little Rough scaled sand boa Chip...hes 18 months old believe it or not and was assist fed until recently...he now eats small pinkies on his own

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110617_183550.jpg

[infernalis]

I have always wanted to keep a Natrix.... Brill snakes.

sSnakeSs.com - Rules (http://www.ssnakess.com/index.php?page=rules)

http://www.thamfriends.com/mat.jpg

[ladyjustice33]

Nice snakes and welcome!!

[UwabamiReptiles]

Welcome to the forum! Very nice collection, I like how you have different things. Not many people keep the macks and white-lips. I've always adored the white-lips, are they hard to keep? Are they bitey because when I was researching them, the little bit I could find pretty much said they can be a pain.

[caffers1982]

I have always wanted to keep a Natrix.... Brill snakes.

sSnakeSs.com - Rules (http://www.ssnakess.com/index.php?page=rules)

http://www.thamfriends.com/mat.jpg

THey are very cool...its my first time keeping Natrix and these are pretty unusual due to the laws surrounding our native species.

This little man is awesome though, hes just moving on to defrost pinkies after being started on trout, hes incredibly active and his 'collar' seems to be getting whiter which is awesome as they are mainly yellow

Nice snakes and welcome!!

cheers mate

Welcome to the forum! Very nice collection, I like how you have different things. Not many people keep the macks and white-lips. I've always adored the white-lips, are they hard to keep? Are they bitey because when I was researching them, the little bit I could find pretty much said they can be a pain.

thanks very much :)

My first snake was a diamond x jungle carpet which started the fascination with carpets, and I also kept a jungle and coastal and a pure Diamond.

There was always something missing though for me and a couple of years ago I went to my mates house to see some of his new hots, and he had Honey in the snake room

She was in a viv that had taped up glass as the night before she had launched herself through it!!

I fell in love with her there and then so despite having little experience, my friend let me have her on a payment plan...and we just learnt together.

There doesn't seem to be much written on Leiopython, Wulf Schleip has created a website but it doesn't seem to be updated, and there is a paper regarding the taxonomy (which is very interesting...takes ages for me to understand those though!)

I don't think they are hard to keep no. As long as you are the kind of person that observes your snake you should be fine.

In general, they like it fairly warm and fairly humid.

However, all my guys are different. For instance Honey likes her basking spot to be around 92 degrees and her skin requires a high humidity else she won't shed well at all

Bruce like his hotspot around 85...any higher and he just won't go there. He also needs it more humid.

The 3rd one (no name), can quite easily live at 85 and hardlly any humidity...he actively avoids anything wet and cannot stand it when his hot end is sprayed...he promptly sod's off down the other end for a 24 hours!!

People say they are also prone to RI's but in my experience, I think many of these RI's in wlp's have been mis-diagnosed.

Wlp's can get easily stressed and you know this when you start to see spit and bubbles appearing from their lips

This combined with them being fairly hissy and vocal snakes leads me to believe many would then assume RI.

I was also lucky enough to have a Southern whitelip python....however I had to sell her financial reasons...she was incredible though

The macks....well what can I say about these guys? Liasis rock!!!

They are food monsters....and ermm...they like food....and, well...they are quite food orientated...ummm!!!

Diurnal snakes, very active and love their grub...sums ups macks in a sentence

I'm just in the process of buying an adult male Olive python and would love one day to have savu's and fuscus as well....oh and I suppose Dunni if I have to ;-)

[caffers1982]

God that a bit of an essay sorry :sorry:

[SnakeyJay]

Its cool, interesting essay. :D Amazing collection youve got there, and welcome to the forum...

[Kayla90]

Welcome to the forum :D
What an awesome collection you have going there :)
Very cute snakes :yes:

[Lankyrob]

Never realised how much irridescence wlp's had!! *adds wlp to list of wanted snakes* ;)

[Schroomy]

Hello Helen! :)

[KrazyKat]

VERY awesome snakes you have, congrats on such a fantastic collection, and welcome to the forum! :)

[Gungirl]

hello and welcome to the forum. I had to look at the first snake about 10 times.. OMG its incredibly Beautiful!!! I hope to see more pics soon!

[caffers1982]

Its cool, interesting essay. :D Amazing collection youve got there, and welcome to the forum...

Welcome to the forum :D
What an awesome collection you have going there :)
Very cute snakes :yes:

Thanks guys :-)

Never realised how much irridescence wlp's had!! *adds wlp to list of wanted snakes* ;)

Incredible aren't they? When I'm back on my laptop I'll stick some photos on of Honey outside in the sun...it's like an oilslick!!

[caffers1982]

Hello Helen! :)

Lol Hi chris :-)

VERY awesome snakes you have, congrats on such a fantastic collection, and welcome to the forum! :)

Thanks mate, I'm pretty proud of my guys

hello and welcome to the forum. I had to look at the first snake about 10 times.. OMG its incredibly Beautiful!!! I hope to see more pics soon!

She's amazing isn't she? My pride and joy, jewel of my collection...u will see a lot more of her don't worry!!'

[Gungirl]

I have got to google info on the Northern White lipped pythons. I have never done any research on those but after seeing that picture of honey I have to find out if I can acquire without to much of a hassle..

[marvelfreak]

Hello and welcome to the zoo. Beautiful collection you have there.

[shaunyboy]

Hi everyone,

I actually regisitered here looking for a friend who seems to have dropped off the face of my earth...good news is I've found him and this looks like a great forum as well

My names Helen, I'm 29 and currently live in Stoke on Trent, England.

I've been keeping snakes for about 3 years, was more of a horsey girl before.

I currently have in my collection:

2.1 Northern Whitelipped pythons (Leiopython albertisi)

Heres some pics of Honey, my big 02 girl:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/h13.jpg

This is Bruce, my 05 male:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110708_083623.jpg

and this handsome fella is currently for sale...

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/wlp.jpg

Next up, my pair of macklots pythons (Liasis mackloti mackloti)

Male:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/mackm.jpg

Female:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/mack5.jpg

This is my little cb grass snake (Natrix natrix helvetica)

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110724_120710.jpg

A very bad photo of my Northern barneck (Morelia amethistina)

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110701_144118.jpg

and finally my little Rough scaled sand boa Chip...hes 18 months old believe it or not and was assist fed until recently...he now eats small pinkies on his own

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/caffers1982/P110617_183550.jpg


hi helen,it good to hear from you again pal

this is the only forum i use these days as the others are full of.....

you know what i'm saying pal

i'm sure you'll like it here,its a decent helpfull place

it will be nice to have our own white lip python expert on board

all the best shaun

[caffers1982]

I have got to google info on the Northern White lipped pythons. I have never done any research on those but after seeing that picture of honey I have to find out if I can acquire without to much of a hassle..

Let me know if you have any questions mate and I'll be glad to help if I can

Hello and welcome to the zoo. Beautiful collection you have there.

thank you :-)

hi helen,it good to hear from you again pal

this is the only forum i use these days as the others are full of.....

you know what i'm saying pal

i'm sure you'll like it here,its a decent helpfull place

it will be nice to have our own white lip python expert on board

all the best shaun

Shaun!!!

Yeah you too bud, will drop you a pm in a bit x