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Cribo Eggs Today!
- Thread starter Dale
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Chip
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒ&
How awesome! I was JUST catching up with my herp buddy who keeps talking me out of a mussarana or however you spell it. It came up again even today... kinda the ultimate garbage disposal. But I react so badly to hognose bites, and I've never even taken a good chewing. All indications are I stink at being envenomated.
But let me know when those hatch.
But let me know when those hatch.
snakewispera snr
The Devils Advocate
Brilliant.... They would go down a storm over here....
You must feel quite chuffed at the first part of this venture..
I'll keep a look out for further news.
You must feel quite chuffed at the first part of this venture..
I'll keep a look out for further news.
Nice!
When I used to breed eastern indigos when I lived in Maryland, I usually had to get the babies started feeding on gold fish or toads. Not sure how different cribos will be, but hopefully they are more inclined to go right onto mice without a lot of fiddling.
Can't wait to see pics of the babies. Somewhere around here I've got a pic of my holding a handful of newly hatched baby indigos that hatched out on my birthday. That was a GOOD day.
When I used to breed eastern indigos when I lived in Maryland, I usually had to get the babies started feeding on gold fish or toads. Not sure how different cribos will be, but hopefully they are more inclined to go right onto mice without a lot of fiddling.
Can't wait to see pics of the babies. Somewhere around here I've got a pic of my holding a handful of newly hatched baby indigos that hatched out on my birthday. That was a GOOD day.
Lovin2act
I gave my wife herps
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Dale
Interventions won't work
Thanks all. Rich, the male Eastern I got from you way back when was a goldfish eater. Once home, he spent 2 weeks on the fish, 2 weeks on scented, then right to plain rodents and never looked back. Not so bad. From what I've heard, the Cribo babies come with the same baggage, some, not all.
The excitement on producing these guys far outweighs the potential high maintenance... now if I had 5 clutches, I might be singing a different tune
The excitement on producing these guys far outweighs the potential high maintenance... now if I had 5 clutches, I might be singing a different tune
Nice!
When I used to breed eastern indigos when I lived in Maryland, I usually had to get the babies started feeding on gold fish or toads. Not sure how different cribos will be, but hopefully they are more inclined to go right onto mice without a lot of fiddling.
Can't wait to see pics of the babies. Somewhere around here I've got a pic of my holding a handful of newly hatched baby indigos that hatched out on my birthday. That was a GOOD day.
Tom Tuttle
Fightin the C
Congrats Dale!:dancer: I bred easterns back in the late 80's. I had 2.5 adults & it didn't take long before the high metabolism rates burnt me out.:laugh:
Thanks all. Rich, the male Eastern I got from you way back when was a goldfish eater. Once home, he spent 2 weeks on the fish, 2 weeks on scented, then right to plain rodents and never looked back. Not so bad. From what I've heard, the Cribo babies come with the same baggage, some, not all.
The excitement on producing these guys far outweighs the potential high maintenance... now if I had 5 clutches, I might be singing a different tune
Just don't be tempted to use wild caught minnows. One of the guys I sold a baby indigo to back then brought it back to me to ask about some odd lumps showing up between the scales. I looked it over and said to him, "Mike, I know this sounds strange and I can't see how it is possible, but it looks like parasites." He looked kind of sheepish and then admitted that he was feeding the snake minnows he had caught locally. So no, NOT a good idea.
Chip
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒ&
Mussurana :cheers:
But they are soooo unlikely to ever bite though!
Here is my girl:
What a beauty! I'd love to hear your take on them. I wish I could buy a pied and use it for cleanup and euth duty. But I have taken some pretty trivial bites from a baby false water and a few hoggies and had bad reactions. Not medical treatment bad (the FWC was close, though and tiny), so a hungry accident from a Mussuarana scares me in the "hot" kind of way. I take it your experience is that they pretty much just never bite?