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10-14-08, 12:54 PM
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Back after a long time
Well I wonder if any of the people here remember me at all but I was here a couple of years ago but due to a turbulant life I lost track of this forum.. But now I have found it again and so here I am hehehehe.. I keep hots for a couple of years now and am into Elapids .. I keep a small collection cause I work much hours in the week so that the hobby doesnīt suffer from that.
here are a couple of snakes I have at the moment
well thatīs all for the moment..
Cheers Niek
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10-14-08, 01:18 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
Welcome back! What an amazing collection you have... Great pics 
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10-14-08, 01:41 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
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Originally Posted by Ultraviolet
Welcome back! What an amazing collection you have... Great pics |
Thanx, here some other pics
cheers niek
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10-14-08, 02:08 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
awesome pics.
whats the third snake...?? standing up in the pic
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10-14-08, 02:22 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
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Originally Posted by johnrandle
awesome pics.
whats the third snake...?? standing up in the pic
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Thatīs an Naja melanoleuca also known as forest cobra.. large "smart" species of cobra ..they follow you arround when you are working in the room :S
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10-14-08, 07:13 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
The green one, is it a boomslang or a green mamba? Or I am way off with both guesses?
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10-14-08, 11:06 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
I have to agree. Very nice collection. Welcome back.
Jason
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10-16-08, 12:56 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
The green one, is it a boomslang or a green mamba? Or I am way off with both guesses?
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well it is a green mamba indeed  great species to keep
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10-16-08, 10:22 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
It's only a great species to keep to those who have the nuts to deal with hots!
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10-17-08, 02:51 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
It's only a great species to keep to those who have the nuts to deal with hots!
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LOL..well that is one way to put it.. but I am a bit different then allot of hot keepers.. I have in all cages hideboxes that I can close so I almost never have to thouch my snakes.. Only if they would have something that really needs handling I take them out. otherwise I never come near them. cleaning the cage is done with proper tools and as long as you leave them alone they leave you alone hehehhehe.. but still I have to agree that mambaīs are no snakes to deal with when you just start keeping snakes or hots..you have to feel comfi with them otherwise you get bitten.
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10-17-08, 10:20 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
So you use a trap box then? I thought most people used them? Am I mistaken, because I am only going off what information I gather off forums, that venomous snake keepers tend to hook the snake out of the enclosure and place it in another one for cleaning?
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10-18-08, 05:02 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
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Originally Posted by Aaron_S
So you use a trap box then? I thought most people used them? Am I mistaken, because I am only going off what information I gather off forums, that venomous snake keepers tend to hook the snake out of the enclosure and place it in another one for cleaning?
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well let me put it this way.. I know that there are allot of keepers of hots that regulary handle their snakes by taking them out the cages with a hook etc. What they do is their way of keeping them. I just have another look on keeping animals . They arenīt for picking up, for handling for fun , Iīm also talking about non venomous animals.. I just leave my animals alone and this has kept me alive for the past couple of years so I must be doing something right hahahah.I indeed have for most animals here an trapbox...this is for the smaller species just a birds nestingbox with a sliding door on them that I can close with a hook. The species that are bigger and need it cause they are not that easy going on a hook have self made hideboxes that I can close. I in fact never thouch my animals ..this would only be done if there is a reason for it like meds that have to be injected..and still then Iīll go and tube them..
Some people react on my kind of keeping that I have a kind of fear for my animals..well if they want to think I do Iīll let them think that.. I donīt fear any of my animals; I respect them and just donīt want to die by getting tagged cause I have to prove that I can handle them with hooks etc ...
cheers niek
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10-19-08, 10:29 AM
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Re: Back after a long time
True enough. I wouldn't care if someone said I was afraid of my animals. When they are being rushed to the hospital due to their 'no fear' handling I'll hang my head for them.
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10-21-08, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct-2003
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Re: Back after a long time
very nice collection, but to say someone hooks and tails or doesnt use trapboxes means they are doing it for fun or to be cool is wrong, i hook and tail stuff too nothing cool about it, it works for me so i do it that way, i have rack systems for smaller hots which i cant have a trap box in. how big is the forest cobra
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10-22-08, 02:29 PM
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Re: Back after a long time
hi,
I did not say that all people who do this do it just for fun.. I tried to make clear that I have another kind of view on working with animals that are kind of dangerous. I just donīt see why I should take the risk of getting bitten by an error that could happen when the handling is done by taling etc. when there are so many different ways to do it with out even having to tail or hook your snakes. thatīs all I tried to tell.. everybody should do what they feel like doing I donīt care .
well I have 3 forest cobraīs .. 2 are about the same age and size and they are between 140cm ( about 4.6 feet) and 160 cm ( 5.3 ft)
Then the other animal is between 200 cm and 220 cm ( 6 ft and 7ft)
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