[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Snakes (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 7/19/2009 8:00:20 PM EDT
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I have talked about my cobras on here before when I posted pics of other snakes. Well I finally took some pics (although crappy) of some of my younger cobras. Sorry these are so bad but they were taken in bad light with my iphone. Really blurry cape cobra (Naja nivea)    Better pics of a Sunset Monocle Cobra (suphan phase) Naja kaouthia     Some better pics of a few of my young West African Gaboon Vipers Bitis gabonica rhinoceros     |
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Quoted: You can apparently find all the info you want about me from Fish and Wildlife anyway. I was getting phone calls from the Orlando Sentinel for interviews after that kid got killed.FYI - iPhones put your GPS coordinates in the EXIF data of the pics. Not that someone would want to fuck with someone with hot snakes, but just to let you know.  |
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Quoted: Awesome, this is my copperhead....... http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e114/whiteshark357/Ziggy6.jpg Hope you have your permit.  |
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I don't mind snakes, but I can't imagine ever keeping a venomous one as a pet. Anything that'll try to bite and kill you when you want to play with it = not so fun pet. I have never met a hot keeper who thought of hot snakes as "pets". Well, whatever it is they're considered. I'll go to the zoo when I want to see those bastards. :| |
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Quoted: Just curious, what do you do with cobras? Venom collection, or make boots, or tourist-trap roadside attraction? I breed the adults, but the cobras in the pics are still young. I will be breeding the Monocles and selling the Capes once I get them a bit bigger. |
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Quoted: One more reason I love Florida. We have a permitting system that ensures only experienced individuals are allowed to keep venomous, yet we can have just about anything we want. I am thinking about trying to get a group of Pseudohaje goldii that I can breed. They have not been bred in captivity so they would be quite valuable if I produce captive born babies. The people I know that have worked with them describe them as a black mamba on crack, and unlike the mamba they have a true prehensile tail to make them just a little more fun.Quoted: Nice.  What kind of permit do have to have to keep venomous snakes?Depends on state, species and CITIES classification. In Cali you do not need a permit to keep a native, non endangered venomous snake. |
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Just curious, what do you do with cobras? Venom collection, or make boots, or tourist-trap roadside attraction? I breed the adults, but the cobras in the pics are still young. I will be breeding the Monocles and selling the Capes once I get them a bit bigger. Who typically buys them? Seems like it would be a small market. Very cool collection - thanks for sharing the pics. You wear any kind of special protective clothing when feeding / cleaning cages? (or is at all technique?) |
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Quoted: Does your homeowner's/life/health insurance increase? What kind of liability would you incur if one bit someone inside your home or escaped and bit someone? My snakes have never gotten out of their cages and never will, but like everything with venomous you have to plan on the remote possibility that things can happen. because of that the room they are in is escape proof. I am the only one that is inside my hot rooms when cages are open. So I am the only one that could get bit. |
| I am not going to win any friends here, but it actually pisses me off that these exotic deadly species can be kept privately. It's bad enough that the damned state of Florida has a constrictor problem, but just wait until we have a sizable cobra population to contend with because of private breeders who can't keep track of every creature's life-to-death whereabouts. Please educate me if I am wrong. |
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Ok, I have to ask. How do you know when your snakes are "in the mood"? You mentioned you breed them. Do they get all...er...straight? 
How do you go about the introduction? Do you run the danger that they might kill each other? One of my friends collects snakes (working on his licence to keep hots) and you just kinda put them together. The female produces pheromones and gets the male in the mood, they screw, and then smoke a cigarette. |
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I am not going to win any friends here, but it actually pisses me off that these exotic deadly species can be kept privately. It's bad enough that the damned state of Florida has a constrictor problem, but just wait until we have a sizable cobra population to contend with because of private breeders who can't keep track of every creature's life-to-death whereabouts. Please educate me if I am wrong. You do realize that the OP has a license to do so, it's not like he just some regular Joe playing around with hots. Just change some of the words with machine gun and you sound like an anti-gunner. Snake venom contains a complex set of proteins and enzymes that could yield breakthroughs in medical treatment. Also, these deadly snakes kill hundreds, and in some cases thousands a year. In some cases, the antiserum is only synthesized here in the US. That requires a consistent and steady captive population. |
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I am not going to win any friends here, but it actually pisses me off that these exotic deadly species can be kept privately. It's bad enough that the damned state of Florida has a constrictor problem, but just wait until we have a sizable cobra population to contend with because of private breeders who can't keep track of every creature's life-to-death whereabouts. Please educate me if I am wrong. The problem isn't the breeders. It was the Miami Serpentarium (milked the snakes to produce anti-venom) that got hit by hurricane Andrew. Every venomous snake from around the world got out and is breeding in the everglades. I don't see a problem with constrictors, the venomous snakes are the ones that mainly cause a problem with humans. Most of the time its the human doing some jackass thing (poking the snake with a stick) and they get bit. |