Today for the first time I have a pair Hemachatus haemachatus , This pair is from
the same location , so we cross fingers to offer some true locality offspring.

Excellent!

Thanks
Andrew

Hi Andrew

Ahh, damn, they are awesome ! Very nice pair you got there, I wish you the best for the offspring with them.

Do they feed on mice? Post some pics of them when tey are in their enclosure plz

Best regards

Hi Andrew, really awesome...
It seems, that they are passive, and not spitting, isn´t it?
Really beauties
Cheers
Benjamin

Evertime you post pictures Andrew, I think my next holiday I have to travel to south africa. Are snakes allowed to catch and herp them, or do you need some special licence?

Beautiful

Cheers Fabian

Fabian - Andrew and I live in the same area of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa. This is the only province in this country where you do not need permits to collect and keep indigenous snakes. Although you cannot collect in certain conservancy areas of course and also we do require permits for Python natalensis and Bitis gabonica. Everything else is legal, we are very lucky, you can catch snakes like this every day.

Good info there Rob , Thanks.
Has anyone breeding this H.haemachatus in captivity before ? I have no data on record.
So far it is believed they do not breed easily ?
I also have heard that this animals is also not very intelligent.

Are they spitting a lot? I've heard that H.h. is spitting very agressively.

Markus - yes they are eating the mice with the previous owner

...As for the spitting , Nothing so far , but I have not had time to piss them off yet
These animals have been in captivity some time before I receive them so maybe they are calming down . Will let you know ..

More happiness today , A friend of mine is keeping less snakes to save some time so today he is giving me this wonderful specimen.
This is the 'kokstad' locality.

Nice Andrew, you can see why this locality is the best by far.
We must go find some more.

I have a friend who has a white and black banded one I love those guys very nice Andrew...

Wonderful! I wouldnt mind keeping apair of these!

Among the nicest snakes in Africa and nice specimens.
Too bad these guys are uncommon in sweden.

Wow! Gorgeous looking animals!

Wow what a beautiful snake the rinkhals is.

some superfine animals you got there.

If you someday have breedings of them, i am really intereted in some.

Hi andrew stunning animals my birthday is the 14th of october I will PM you my adress ;-0

LOL

cheers

Richard

Good luck Andrew with this georgus pair. Stunning animals.

Regards, BKK

Thanks guys, I am also really loving this specimen , excellent thin banding and almost black and white !! BEAUTIFUL !

Really nice animals Andrew! I have a couple of Hemachatus myself. I got 2.1. but now 1.1. Unfortunatly one male died. He was a WC male. Together with my female he was from South Africa (East London). I don't know the locality from the male that I still have. The female is doing fine and has eaten 2 mice today. I hope to breed this species in the future. They are such wonderfull animals to keep. Both animals are banded. I like those more than the one colored ones.
Good luck with your animals!

wow this species are really fantastic just awesome, do you have pics of their enclosures pleas??

Beautiful animals, Andrew. I'd love to get some for myself some day.

Beautiful snakes Andrew, good luck with them. I have often wondered how feeding the newborns would be?

Rinkhals neonates tend to take frogs easier than pinks but they do take pinks. I have a friend who keeps almost only rinkhals here in Joburg and he has bred them too. I believe these snakes occur in regions where it falls below freezing point in winter. The occupy a range of habitats but it seems they prefer moist grassland where frogs and mice are abundant. These bandeds are also found around Harrysmith. Nice going Andrew. You sure have an eye for beutiful snakes bud. It feels great knowing that these and bergadders got their names from my mother language Afrikaans which is slowly dissapearing.

Beautiful snakes! Many happy snakeletts to you.

Absolutely stunning!!!!!!