Intro =) Interested in hots

TonyDCaver · 02-04-11, 02:48 PM

Hello Everyone!

My name is Tony and I'm from North Central Florida. I am in the Army National Guard and currently a student at Sante Fe College pursueing a degree in Nursing. I am a certified Full Cave Diver and active caver (spelunker).

I own 6 Snakes.
2 Boa constrictor imperator *Jungle* (Merlin + Nagini)
1 Python Regius (Zeus)
1 Lampropeltis g. nigritis (Jose Quervo)
1 Python brongersmai (Hannibal)
1 Lampropeltis g. californiae

I am currently pursueing my hours to get my hot license, I am looking for people in the Gainesville/Ocala/Lake City area who wouldn't mind having me intern under them to get experience in working with hots.

-Tony DC

infernalis · 02-04-11, 05:27 PM

Jay · 02-04-11, 05:58 PM

hey welcome nice to see your getting experience !!

marvelfreak · 02-04-11, 06:05 PM

Hello and welcome!

Ch^4 · 02-04-11, 11:52 PM

Welcome to the forum! We'd love to see pics of your collection.

A hot keeper should be on at some point to lend you their advice.

percey39 · 02-05-11, 08:35 PM

Hello and welcome to the forum. I hope you find someone to learn under as its good to see first hand how to correctly hook and tail these guy's. They are a incredibly quick and take a little bit to get used to. I wish you all the best in finding someone to help you with getting the experience required. If you have any other questions about keeping hot's feel free to shoot me a PM or post it here. Also there are very very few of us hot's keepers on this forum.

shaunyboy · 02-06-11, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by percey39

Hello and welcome to the forum. I hope you find someone to learn under as its good to see first hand how to correctly hook and tail these guy's. They are a incredibly quick and take a little bit to get used to. I wish you all the best in finding someone to help you with getting the experience required. If you have any other questions about keeping hot's feel free to shoot me a PM or post it here. Also there are very very few of us hot's keepers on this forum.

^^^^^
imo percy's the man when it comes to hots i'd love to have him as a mentor if i ever trusted myself to keep hots (it would help if we did'nt live on opposite sides of the planet

)

its refreshing to see someone actually looking for a mentor as so many newbies don't respect hots enough to think it warrants a mentor

so kudo's to you mate

welcome to the forum

cheers shaun

TonyDCaver · 02-08-11, 10:07 AM

Sapphyr · 02-08-11, 10:28 AM

Welcome to the forums, and that's a gorgeous collection you've got.~ Especially love the Redtail Boa.~ Well, it looks like a redtail boa I'd fallen for in a pet store but couldn't get LOL.

I almost called the first pic another Redtail Boa but it actually looks like more of a Blood Python to me.. I don't know their scientific latin names.

marvelfreak · 02-08-11, 04:50 PM

Nice looking collection you have there. Is that a Borneo Short-tail or a Blood?

percey39 · 02-08-11, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by shaunyboy

^^^^^
imo percy's the man when it comes to hots i'd love to have him as a mentor if i ever trusted myself to keep hots (it would help if we did'nt live on opposite sides of the planet

)

I would be more than happy to move over there if you ever do wanna get them Shaun. I would happily mentor you for the chance of dealing with some of the most beautiful venomous species the world has to offer. You would maybe have to buy me a gaboon and king cobra for my efforts though lol.

Great pics of a great collection mate, it will certainly be an eye opener for you to see the sheer speed of a hot though compared to the species you have in those pics.

TonyDCaver · 02-09-11, 06:38 AM

Oh I know ! :-) I work with a friend of mine around here, but he's only one person. He has two monocle cobras and two eyelash vipers. The cobras are still babies so they are a handful. :-)

Tony

TonyDCaver · 02-09-11, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by marvelfreak

Nice looking collection you have there. Is that a Borneo Short-tail or a Blood?

The first pic is a blood.

percey39 · 02-09-11, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyDCaver

Oh I know ! :-) I work with a friend of mine around here, but he's only one person. He has two monocle cobras and two eyelash vipers. The cobras are still babies so they are a handful. :-)

Tony

I would love to be able to work with cobra's i find their aggressive display awesome to watch. The ones that keep me on my toes the most which i own would have to be the mulga's/king browns. They are all still young but my biggest is now around 1.4m but is only 20 months old so the big guy has a lot of growing to go.

TonyDCaver · 02-10-11, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by percey39

I would love to be able to work with cobra's i find their aggressive display awesome to watch. The ones that keep me on my toes the most which i own would have to be the mulga's/king browns. They are all still young but my biggest is now around 1.4m but is only 20 months old so the big guy has a lot of growing to go.

The Cobras have a beautiful display, but honestly they are not the ones who have scared me the most in working with venomous so far. I've found most pit vipers to be a lot quicker and more difficult to work with. The Cobras have a very easily discerned strike range, unlike some other pits.

-Tony

P.S. Forgot to post pic of my Jungle Boa