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Post by stephan on Sept 28, 2020 23:09:47 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 30, 2020 12:01:18 GMT -5
Adding a couple more...
Northern Desert Nightsnake - Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola Found just west of the CA/AZ border, south of I-8. Not the Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha klauberi - San Diego Nightsnake, they are found much farther to the west.
Common Chuckwalla - Sauromalus ater (formerly Sauromalus obesus) A healthy male. This photo taken in the Mojave when on a prospecting trip.
Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii Cooper) youngster
Photo also taken in Mojave when on a prospecting trip
That's it for now.
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Post by wpotterw on Sept 30, 2020 17:11:39 GMT -5
Adding a couple more...
Northern Desert Nightsnake - Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola Found just west of the CA/AZ border, south of I-8. Not the Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha klauberi - San Diego Nightsnake, they are found much farther to the west.
Common Chuckwalla - Sauromalus obesus (formerly Sauromalus obesus) A healthy male. This photo taken in the Mojave when on a prospecting trip.
Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii Cooper) youngster Photo also taken in Mojave when on a prospecting trip
That's it for now.
Awesome
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Post by wpotterw on Sept 30, 2020 18:46:18 GMT -5
Adding a couple more...
Northern Desert Nightsnake - Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola Found just west of the CA/AZ border, south of I-8. Not the Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha klauberi - San Diego Nightsnake, they are found much farther to the west.
Common Chuckwalla - Sauromalus obesus (formerly Sauromalus obesus) A healthy male. This photo taken in the Mojave when on a prospecting trip.
Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii Cooper) youngster Photo also taken in Mojave when on a prospecting trip
That's it for now.
Awesome I love the night snake, but I have wanted a pet chuckwalla (and a gila monster) since I got my first copy of Golden Book's Reptiles and Amphibians
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Post by joshuamcduffie on Oct 1, 2020 17:01:48 GMT -5
I never knew frogs could have teeth!
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Post by RickB on Oct 1, 2020 19:25:07 GMT -5
I never knew frogs could have teeth!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 1, 2020 23:40:41 GMT -5
Chuckwalla !
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Post by amygdule on Oct 2, 2020 15:03:06 GMT -5
This is a video of a rattlesnake that I took on the back porch, which was also part of our dog run. The poor dog went berserk and I had to go out and see what was going on. After the excitement, I managed to catch the snake and relocate it away from the house down in the bushes. This was in Decker Canyon, on the south side of the Santa Monica Mountains in California. I’m glad I didn’t live there long (1999-2000), as it was burned out in the Woolsey Fire of 2018.
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Post by amygdule on Oct 7, 2020 14:28:53 GMT -5
E Reptile Dysfunction
Chasing snakes out of the Horse Arena
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 7, 2020 18:17:49 GMT -5
Just one today.
Ball python with eggs.
When we had snakes, we raised colubrids (king snakes and milksnakes), but probably had four or five ball pythons given to us over the years. When people could not get their balls to eat for various reasons (they are timid animals, and don't like to be the center of attention in your living room when you are trying to feed them, get too much handling, or didn't like what was offered!), they would just give them to us. Having gerbils back then was an immense help, and I was able to switch more than a few over to eating mice or small rats.
This female laid five eggs, but the problem was colubrid eggs and python eggs incubate at different temperatures (Pythons hotter), and we only had one incubator. The female acted like she wanted to incubate them herself. Didn't work out though, they went bad.
In retrospect, I should have asked around and found out if anyone wanted to take them on. Preferably, someone with an incubator set at "python temp," lol.
When we got out of snakes, I gave all we had to a friend that had some.
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 7, 2020 19:18:27 GMT -5
Before Ball Pythons: I bred Leopard Geckos. Great pets, but, susceptible to many health issues that ball pythons are almost completely immune.
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Post by NRG on Oct 7, 2020 23:02:01 GMT -5
I never knew frogs could have teeth! Those pyxie frogs in this thread have more like tusks. they can shred a thumb for sure. Please don't ask me how I know.
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Post by NRG on Oct 7, 2020 23:02:57 GMT -5
African bullfrog---watch your fingers they have rows of teeth...this is my smallest one. Nice chonker! Too bad you don't have any girls. 🥴
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Post by pizzano on Oct 7, 2020 23:40:05 GMT -5
Before Ball Pythons: I bred Leopard Geckos. Great pets, but, susceptible to many health issues that ball pythons are almost completely immune. My son had a couple of Fat Tails that were very friendly and liked to be handled........one evening we noticed eggs, so we separated them, allowing the (what we determined to be mom) to stay with them. Got a hold of the breeder we purchased them from (unknowingly they were a pair), purchased a larger heating pad and proper thermometer, removed the mom.......within weeks we had three very hungry baby Fat Tails........The breeder and my son made a trade, he came home with a young Iquana..... he had that monster with him when he left the nest, 6yrs later.......finally gave it to a friend 3yrs later..........damn reptiles live forever when raised on home grown rodents, insects and vegetables...........that aspect I don't miss......lol
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 8, 2020 6:46:05 GMT -5
....within weeks we had three very hungry baby Fat Tails........The breeder and my son made a trade, he came home with a young Iquana..... I would have kept the Fat Tails rather than get an iguana! Much less time/energy/effort in the long run!
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Post by pizzano on Oct 8, 2020 10:14:53 GMT -5
Me Tooooo........had I know then what I eventually learned later........but I wasn't part of that decision process. He and Mom made the trade......it was his 13th birthday, Mom had one when she was a kid too.....!
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Post by amygdule on Oct 18, 2020 1:24:31 GMT -5
A Salamander from Oregon.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 21, 2020 20:37:49 GMT -5
Ensatina eschscholtzii salamander
First saw one of these up by Bass Lake, which is situated in the Sierra National Forest approximately 14 mi from the south entrance of Yosemite National Park. Have also seen them locally, in the Laguna Mountains (Cleveland National Forest), when there was a dusting of snow on the ground!
This is a Rubber Boa Charina bottae native to North America. Rubber boas are the most Northerly of Boa species. I don't remember if this is a Northern or Southern subspecies. It was captive born, we got it from a member of the Arizona Herpetological Society, this was about 35-ish years ago. They are not native to Arizona.
He was a little chunky.
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