Hi y’all! I’ve introduced myself in the forums many a time and I’m around quite a bit in the ball python section. However, after some time and experience in that realm of things, I’ve found that while I love those animals, I don’t necessarily love the industry/community around them, so I’m very excited to expand into some other species that I think deserve some love. I’ve introduced one of those here (trinket snakes!) but I wanted to introduce y’all to my current planned colubrid projects!
First, I’ll reintroduce the trinket snakes - Common Indian Trinket Snake, Coelognathus helena helena. This is Po (male) and Katsa (female). They’ll hopefully be ready in 2027!
Then, I also already posted about this species - Nuevo Leon king snakes! My male, Tyrion, and my female, Cirilla. Ciri will hopefully be ready late 2027/early 2028, but we’ll see.
Now for one of the new species, which a few people may have already seen: Bamboo rat snakes! Broad banded, to be specific. Oreocryptophis porphyraceus laticinctus. The female (Empress) is a proven girl and the male is just a lil guy, can’t wait to watch him grow up. Fingers crossed for 2027 for these guys too, depending on how soon the male is ready.
And I’m looking for another species to get into at the moment. Wanting an Asian species that I can target toward intermediate keepers. Current top considerations are Gonyosoma frenatum (rein rat snakes, we need them cbb more), rhino rat snakes, or Japanese rat snakes.
And then I have a couple of hognose projects as well but both of my beautiful females are currently on breeding loan with Emily & Ed, so here’s a cute pic of the little boy I’m growing up - toffeebelly conda het axanthic! His name is Pistaschio.
If anyone has experience with any of these species or anything else to share, definitely let me know! I’m really excited to expand some into colubrids and I’m looking forward to connecting more with colubrid communities.
