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Martti Niskanen
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 70
Age: 33
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Points: 935
Registration date: 2010-02-19
 | | Subject: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Aug - 4:24 | |
| Here are a few photos of my latest red pig clutch from this year. It'll be the usual force-feeding pain again for the next few months, but I guess one shouldn't complain too much.    Cheers Martti
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Daniel von der Gablentz
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 60
Age: 27
Location: Germany NRW
Points: 732
Registration date: 2010-07-27
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Aug - 4:28 | |
| Oh they are realy red!
Hope they will learn to eat by themselve quikly
best wiches |
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Walter Silva
Snakemaster
Number of posts: 342
Age: 35
Location: Perú
Points: 1471
Registration date: 2009-06-15
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Aug - 7:10 | |
| Martti:
OMG ! very very very nice pigmys!!
please, more pics ....
congratulations |
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Mike Spencer
Snakemaster
Number of posts: 377
Age: 27
Location: Northern California/Ft. Smith, Arkansas
Points: 1108
Registration date: 2010-06-27
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Aug - 8:26 | |
| Wow. Those guys are screamers. Thanks for sharing! |
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Scotty Allen
Snakecharmer
Number of posts: 109
Age: 57
Location: southern Ontario, CANADA
Points: 1410
Registration date: 2008-11-19
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Aug - 19:34 | |
| Very nice! A good friend of mine in the US breeds these regularly and has good luck getting the babies started on red-backed salamanders. If you have access to small salamanders of some type, you may be able to avoid force feeding. |
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Joni hottinen
Snakecharmer
Number of posts: 105
Age: 21
Location: Varkaus, Finland
Points: 956
Registration date: 2010-02-16
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Aug - 19:37 | |
| scenting with some frog would be worth of trying too? or have you tried already? |
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Martti Niskanen
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 70
Age: 33
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Points: 935
Registration date: 2010-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Mon 2 Aug - 1:31 | |
| Tried scenting with most things imaginable without much success. |
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Michael Jonasson
Snakecharmer
Number of posts: 156
Age: 32
Location: Sweden
Points: 1146
Registration date: 2009-10-21
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Mon 2 Aug - 13:36 | |
| Those are just unreal. Good work! |
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Chaim Haveman
Snakemaster
Number of posts: 301
Age: 29
Location: Netherlands
Points: 1080
Registration date: 2010-05-08
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Wed 4 Aug - 0:15 | |
| way to beautyfull!!!
what a stunner |
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anthony lineberry
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 55
Age: 27
Location: USA
Points: 800
Registration date: 2010-06-03
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sat 7 Aug - 17:51 | |
| Wow! I almost thought that was fake for a minute! Amazing looking little guys Martti. Congrats on the clutch. |
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Tommy Brav
Newbie
Number of posts: 27
Age: 63
Location: Sweden
Points: 243
Registration date: 2011-11-08
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sat 31 Dec - 3:44 | |
| Hi Martti!
Beautiful species. I've bred it several times but got tired of the force feeding. If they are born at the right season for catching small frogs they will eat without no problems. After a while you can turn over to pinkies. Tried to scent pinkies with frogs without success. I think it is the combination of the smelling of frog and the jumping that triggers feeding.
Good luck with next years litter.
Tommy |
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Martti Niskanen
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 70
Age: 33
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Points: 935
Registration date: 2010-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Jan - 4:01 | |
| | Tommy Brav wrote: | Hi Martti!
Beautiful species. I've bred it several times but got tired of the force feeding. If they are born at the right season for catching small frogs they will eat without no problems. After a while you can turn over to pinkies. Tried to scent pinkies with frogs without success. I think it is the combination of the smelling of frog and the jumping that triggers feeding.
Good luck with next years litter.
Tommy |
Cheers, Tommy. Haven't heard from you for years.
Mine had three clutches and all the offspring fed alright with time and force-feeding. As yours, they had no response to frog*-scented pinkies or dead frogs, but scenting with Zootoca* had a marginal effect. The breeding pair has now been sold to Sweden, so look out for the babies next year (or this year, depending when you read this).
Cheers
Martti
* legally caught. |
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Navreet Notey
Newbie
Number of posts: 19
Age: 22
Location: Hampshire
Points: 185
Registration date: 2011-12-17
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Jan - 7:56 | |
| Wow!
They are the most stunning snakes I've ever seen. Amazing colour!!
Definitely will look to get some of these next year.
Nav |
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Sean Barnett
Newbie
Number of posts: 12
Age: 15
Location: Texas
Points: 158
Registration date: 2011-12-28
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Jan - 15:31 | |
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Rainer Fesser
Systematicus
Number of posts: 419
Age: 62
Location: Austria
Points: 1954
Registration date: 2008-03-13
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Jan - 17:42 | |
| Hello Martti,
I bred the red pigmy rattlers several times and had the same feeding-problem. I could solve it in many specimens by making them bite a pinky (often hard to make them bite at all), then opening the pinky´s head and leaving the mouse close to the snake. Most of those that I could make bite ate the pinky and soon started to hunt and eat by themselves.
Good luck,
Rainer |
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Jean-Pierre Linossier
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 81
Age: 45
Location: France
Points: 437
Registration date: 2011-07-11
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Sun 1 Jan - 18:16 | |
| Nice babys, do you think they will stay red ?
Could you post some pics of the parents ?
Good luck for feeding time |
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Martti Niskanen
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 70
Age: 33
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Points: 935
Registration date: 2010-02-19
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Jean-Pierre Linossier
Snakekeeper
Number of posts: 81
Age: 45
Location: France
Points: 437
Registration date: 2011-07-11
| | Subject: Re: Red Sistrurus miliarius Mon 2 Jan - 3:50 | |
| thanks Martti,
they are really stunning animals |
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