Sangfroid has a charming behind!
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Another VERY gravid girl! I didn’t pair her at all this year so this is retained sperm from after her 3 clutches last year.
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You must treat your mamas well that they’re this enthusiastic! Whoa. Look at that scale spread, she’s bursting at the seams!
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Super excited for you Kayla! I will patiently wait for the little ones! 
. I have a house snake as well named Ferenzi but he’s still pretty small.
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What a prolific mama! That’s really incredible. Congrats!
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Also tried to get pictures of my last remaining babies. It didn’t quite go as planned (these things are impossible to take pictures of, lol) but this picture turned out quite well!
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Oh look who’s feeling spicy!
Gosh, they’ve grown so much. Gorgeous, gorgeous little one.
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Very pretty little baby! They truly are quite squirmy little critters! Great picture! 
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I love the coloring on this guy. Maybe one day i need to get an african house snake, they’re so cute
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They’re really lovely animals, I could sing their praises all day. Super easy to take care of, great eaters (at least as far as the capes go, pretty much all of mine started on frozen thawed pinkies) and when you handle them they actually hang on and stay mostly in one place. This girl is a T- albino (hence the red pupils) and she’s also 50% KZN red, which is a locality that gives them a deeper red coloring, or in albino, more orange.
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Figured I would introduce everyone to these: “Near-Forest Black House Snakes” aka Boaedon perisilvestris. Described for the first time in 2016, these are brand new to the US hobby, as far as I’m aware myself and Stygian Exotics are the only people who have them. They are F1 from a breeder in Slovakia, imported to the US. The taxonomic name means “near-forest” (“peri” = around, about, or nearby; “silvestris” = forested, wooded).
This is the quote I have on my MM breeder page for these two: “Perisilvestris have a rounder head than black fuliginosus, darker eyes, hatch with silver eye lines you can see on the nose and behind the head. As adults perisilvestris are larger and more robust than the black fulis, very similar size to b. capensis. They are also more opalescent than fulis, though that is not something I would use as an identifier as they are both known to fire up and down.”
They’re a much higher humidity species than the fulis, requiring about 80%+ humidity, and they’re also easier to get started feeding on rodents as well as more likely to stay on f/t rodents than most fulis. Here are the two little cuties! (Photo credit to Christen of Stygian Exotics, she has custody of my two little ones until we hand off at Tinley!)
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Wow! How amazing for you to be one of two US breeders for these gorgeous animals!
I assume your main goal is to get a stable captive bred US line going (which is awesome!!), but for my own curiosity would these be able to cross with other house snakes, and if so, what do you think would occur in the offspring colorwise?
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These are amazing!
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Holy moly, these are beautiful 
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Well girlfriend when you said you were getting away from ball pythons and moving toward more unique colubrids you were not kidding! Such lovely deep black house snakes they are! Now this is what I call a project! 
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Yep, the goal is ultimately to get established US lines going and stable, but I am interested in doing crosses with T- albino capes and hypo capes down the line, after a few years of being established! I’d imagine they would act very similar to fuliginosis X cape crosses, and I don’t see any reason they wouldn’t be possible - they probably hybridize in the wild to an extent, like most house snakes.
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Oh, my!! How absolutely stunning!! I will be very much looking forward to watching this project. They’re beautiful animals and I’m sure you’ll do great things with them. Wishing you all the best of luck moving forward!
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These are STUNNING! I hope they make it across the pond at some point. Do they have similar iridescence to other housies?
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Home Moley Kayla! They remind me of the Bi Color Loxocemus Python!!!
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