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First The Girls
This is Shampa (her name
means lightning) and she is the pride of our
collection. Shampa is a female Lamprophis Capensis
(cape house snake). As you can see she has a beautiful
striped pattern which has been found on occasion in
Cape's. As far as we know Shampa is the only such cape
house snake currently in North America and even the other
versions I have seen don't hold a candle the the perfect symmetry
of her stripes and the beautiful strait eye lines.
Shampa was purchased from
Donald Sultz at Mfezi.com and he imported her as a captive
bred 05 animal from South Africa. While she is
currently big enough to breed I have decided to continue to
feed her and hold off on breeding her until the spring of
2008. Such a beautiful animal is worth the wait.
It will be years until we determine if this pattern is both genetic
and reproducible, one thing is clear though she is
sure to produce beautiful babies. We will be breeding
amelinistic blood into Jampa's line, the possibilities of
this pattern crossed with high orange amelinistic coloration
is very exciting.
This is Dorothy, named
after my wife and it may amuse you to know why.
Dorothy is the only house snake I have ever kept that can
honestly be called a biter. As you can see she is also
beautiful and what else could I name a snake this beautiful
who will also tear into me at times other then after the
wife I love so much. Dorothy is a Lamprophis Maculatus
(dotted house snake) and she is a wild caught animal from
Tanzania. As you can see she is also highly patterned
and a beautiful shade of red in fact she is almost
pinkish. I have never come across any house snake that
is quite this shade of red.
When I first got Dorothy
she was willing to bite me but was not an aggressive feeder,
perhaps she had a hard time adapting to an enclosure after
leaving the open spaces of Tanzania? It took her a
while to really start growing but I started feeding
her in a deli cup and she is now pounding 2-3 peach fuzzies
twice a week and in the last 7 months has tripled her
size. She should be big enough to breed by June of
2008 and will undoubtedly produce some of the most beautiful
red house snakes we have ever seen. She is also doing
better with her biting and since biting my wife (and drawing
a decent bit of blood) during a treatment recently she has
not bitten in quite a while.
The next gal for you to
meet is Tanis she is another Lamprophis Maculatus (dotted
house snake). The name Tanis is an ancient Phoenician
name which means "serpent lady". Tanis is a
proven breeder and I acquired her in September of 2007 from
Dr. Neil Ford of UT Tyler. Dr. Ford had bred Tanis in
some research and she recently laid a clutch of 10
eggs. Unfortunately I did not follow my own rule and
she laid in her water bowel, (because she was carrying sperm
from a previous breeding I did not realize how gravid she
was). Only 4 of the eggs have survived but they will
be bonuses anyway. Tanis is currently on a heavy
rodent diet and will be bred to one of my high red males in
January. She is a beautiful shade of rust red and
should produce some outstanding offspring.
This is Sienna another
beautiful red house snake from Tanzania. Sienna
currenly has 11 eggs in our incubator and here babies (those
we don't hold back) should be available in January of
2008. Sienna like several of our animals was acquired
from Dr. Ford at UT Tyler and Dr. Ford go her from Don over
at Mfezi.com so like all of our animals we are 100% sure of
her origin and therefore the purity of her locality blood
line.
And Now the Guys
This male house snake is
name Cash, we named him that because of his proven ability
with the ladies. Put Cash with a fertile female and
the deed will be done and done right and beautiful clutch of
babies will be soon on the way. Cash is also
HUGE for a male house snake and is in fact as large as both
Sienna and Tanis. As a result his babies tend to be
large and vigorous little beasts! We will be doing
quite a bit of hold back on some of his off spring to work
on getting more size into our lines. Additionally the
idea of getting some of his blood line into the Tanzanian
Amel line that Don Shultz is now working with is also very
exciting. Like Sienna and Tanis, Cash is also a pure
bloodline animal strait from the wilds of east
Africa.
This is Armon a pure
Zululand Phase Lamprophis Capensis. He was captive
bred in South Africa in 2005 and then imported by Donald
Sultz at Mfezi.com. I acquired him in 2006 and he is
now ready to start breeding with some of our girls.
Armon means "Chestnut" in Hebrew and it was the
most fitting name I could bestow on him. This is a
"normal" House Snake, a naturally occurring phase
that have a beautiful pattern and color. We expect
Armon to produce some beautiful Cape babies.
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