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Info again....(typus)
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by GaryOrner on January 31, 2009
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I have a few PDF files Thanks Al and a few other acounts on bites from the D typus.
has anyone here bred them and raised young. I am looking for cooling or lighting info. Feeding info for the young(What really gets them going)
Any info will help. I am looking to breed this species. Anyone that knows me knows I record every deatil about the species i keep.
Also who here keeps Boomslangs?
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by Buzztail1 on January 31, 2009
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Gary,
I have never kept them but I may have an article on keeping them archived somewhere.
I will try to look through some files tomorrow and get back to you.
Good Luck.
R/
Karl
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by BobH on February 1, 2009
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I kept and bred them several years ago. I eventually got rid of them, in spite of really liking them. At that time my snake room was small and cluttered with cages and I did not like the idea of them getting off the hook and quickly slipping behind the cages. My bred easily (nothing special in cycling)but the babies were a nightmare. They are really beautiful but I could not get them to voluntarilly feed on anything that I had to offer them. {Wait-I had a litter of eyelash vipers at the same time and one was severly deformed-one baby boomslang ate the eyelash and died the next day}. Eventually some would eat on their own after being tubed and teased with pinkies. I gave away three sets of three individuals and I hope at least one or two made it but I am not sure. The adult were nice snakes-always out and active and never missed a meal. Good luck. Maybe you need to breed baby chameleons to feed them??
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by Chance on February 1, 2009
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I was one of the individuals who received a set of babies from Bob and unfortunately all of them perished. I've also bred them in the past. Adults are wonderful captive - alert, active, diurnal, quick to feed (too quick sometimes!), beautiful - but the babies are, like Bob said, a nightmare. My female laid 4 good eggs, all of which hatched in about 75 days at 85F on wet perlite. I had to assist feed all of them, and slowly all but one perished from what I assume was stress. One finally began to eat on his own after about 9 months of assist feeding.
I'm certainly not implying that it can't be done, but be prepared for disappointments. Baby booms are pretty neat critters though - such tiny slender bodies with such huge heads and eyes.
Good luck!
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by GaryOrner on February 1, 2009
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Thanks everyone. I have a Male that has been here for going on 3 years and another male that has been here for about 4 months.
I am having trouble finding a nice female. I have found one at the hamburg show but her eye was so bad that I felt she just got off the boat. I was told no she just looks that way. It look as if behind the eye was filled with fluid.
The speed of them is awesome. My older male is calmer and eats Frozen thawed off on of the rocks i have in his cage. he rarely goes nuts. The younger one Will try tobite when ever he get a chance. I am hoping he calms a bite as he is a hand full to handle. The older one hooks like a dream. Tail and hook he can be moved. the other..... Lets just say he makes this big guy move fast lol.
I know of a few Cham. reeders here too. That may help. I really just want to do it once. I love this species a lot. Once the babies get going if they get going I will give them to friends that can handle them. I will only keep one or two.
I have noticed to they o not hide. They will watch everything that goes on. It is wierd. I swear they also can remember a bit. Not a lot. but the younger male goes nuts when I come up to his cage with a hook. Without the hook he is calmer. It is very very strange.
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