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Originally Posted by infernalis
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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
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Originally Posted by ladyjustice33
Nice snakes and welcome!!
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cheers mate
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Originally Posted by 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.
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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 ;-)
Amazing collection youve got there, and welcome to the forum...
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