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rolandslf

rolandslf

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As you are all aware, I respond to a lot of rescues with more than a few being Herald Snakes. To cut a long story short, I accumulated a 3.2 group of these snakes. They actually are as tame as my Corn Snakes now.
I am pleased to announce that the one female is heavily gravid as the pics will show. Is anyone in the States working with these snakes?
My next mission is to get them or their offspring feeding on pinks.
Enjoy the pics.

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As stated, they are now very tame.

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Ciao
 
I think Dave Deems (did I get that right?) has a young female. Wow, the adults are quite different! I wouldn't mind seeing more pics of yours. I can't wait to see the babies.
 
Wow! That's some awesome stuff Roland! I believe Nanci is right about David. He's a younger guy on here and has a juvenile female I believe. They look like very interesting snakes and it'd be cool to see them more often in the CB rear-fanged world. Any idea what dealing with the offspring will be like?

Skippy
 
@ Nanci - Not many people are aware of the colour variations in this species.
Colour varies from: Brown with no other markings, to a light grey with white speckles, to almost black with no markings, to almost black with white speckles, to olive green with no markings, to olive green with white speckles, to pale green with white speckles. The upper lip colour variations vary from: red, to orange, to yellow, to white.

It seems that the various colour combinations are locality resultant.

I am only now starting my projects etc. on Heralds, and as information develops I will make my findings known.

Ciao
 
@ Pruddock - Dealing with the offspring will be hectic to say the least. Simply because they are awesomely aggressive as neonates and will not hesitate to strike out at a furiously fast rate. having said that, although they are back fanged and need to really do some chewing for envenomation to occur, their venom is harmless to man. I have been tagged a number of times while taming down my adults and have suffered not one sign of an ill effect.

I had been told previously of headaches, dizzyness, nausea when tagged by one of these guys. I can recount from personal experience that this is a fallacy. Of course, one should not be stupid enough to rule out an allergic reaction, but I am allergic to Bee Stings and as said, have had no reaction to bites from these snakes at all. The fangs do however cause a bit of a deep, painfull puncture.

I will post pics when eggs are laid and pipping occurs etc.

Ciao
 
Well, awesomely aggressive sounds promising in terms of getting the hatchlings to eat mice. Have you considered pre-scenting the eggs in the last few weeks as some people in the US have done to try to get kingsnakes (graybands) to eat mice right away? Another trick I have heard that worked with lizard-eating kings is to offer just a pinky head. AFAIK David's snake eats mice well.
 
The egg scenting method actually originated with cobra eggs. Chris (tyflier) brought it up here to see what people thought about trying something similar with potential problem feeder clutches that individuals like us hatch. I tried it last year with graybands and had great success. Unfortunately, I did not end up with any grayband eggs this year to see if I could duplicate the same results again.
 
I have a female and am gettin a male in november. Then in later in the year another pair. Start em on scented pinkie parts then off to real mice. My gal takes 2 pinkies in one sitting! I will have CB babies this season!
 
I was just coming back to ask the same question. Dang you Nanci! :nyah:

I was under the impression that it was much smaller based on the video of it I saw recently.
 
My female JUST hit breeding size she is around 15in. I will take some pictures tonite and post them in general chit chat
 
David, yours looks MUCH smaller then Rolands. Are heralds the same as corns as far as being breeding ready by weight and not length?
 
Heralds can breed at about 14in. But by breeding season of next year she will be around 20in. Mine is much smaller. Rolands is probally an older adult my girls is just now breedable
 
They're both great looking snakes, what an interesting species. I wasn't familiar with these guys at all before coming on here, but they're really cool.
 
The Heralds are really fascinating snakes. My female is at 84cm, I don't know what that is in inches, please help out with the conversion David.

I have seen gravid females in the wild which are at about 50cm, once again, conversion to inches needed.

Last week I was called to a rescue, turned out to be a pair of Heralds locked up. The female must have been close to a metre in length but the male was a small fellow about 45cm. I did not have my camera on me to take picks. Even the pick up and transport to the release zone did not phase them. I found them locked up and released them still locked up.

Ciao
 
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