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Feeding time chicken feet and sardines and a couple of babys

Speckled Brown Snake Tiger Snake bred back in march 2012 Kangaroo Island Black Tiger Snake, this guy just chills all day My largest Eastern Tiger Snake nearly 1.5m, eats anything

Some of my copperheads

Reptilenutt-yes you are! Awesome set up you have there, you thought of everything for the well being of your animals. Am going to pinch your idea of the rolled up blind.Cheers. Disgustipated-something like this would be great.

Very nice indeed.

Awesome thread here Insect Direct. Love the blueys but don't keep any anymore, got a few different sorts happening over here in Australia, albinos, blacks, stripes. Cheers.

The small 1's are mainly the "nutters" cause everything is after them, most mellow out as they get larger. Come on over to Australia, plenty of other goodies too. Red Bellies are 1 of my favorites.

Non Venomous Pythons Jungle Scrub Blackheads Childrens Diamonds Mildly Venomous Brown Tree Snakes "Night Tigers" Venomous Tigers (20 odd) Red Belly Blacks (8) Blue Belly Blacks Colletts Copperheads Deathadders (30 odd) Wife No Kids (all moved out) No Life!

A young Tasmanian Tiger snake Who now looks like this A Mt Gambier Tiger snake I bred in a pit march 2012 shedding it's skin Brown Tree snakes "night tiger form"

Tiger snakes having sex! What's that french word? A mating from 2yrs ago My very first adder I bred, a northern (Acanthophis paelongus) at 1 day old. At 2 months old. At around 2 1/2yrs' Mum & Dad.

Brown Tree Snake-still amazes me how they do this

I'm involved in a couple of "snake" clubs & am yet to meet a fellow maori or any pacific islander who keeps snakes. Apart from my children, all other cuzzy's won't go near them. Snakes, like spiders, most people would rather steer clear of them. And with me keeping alot of venomous snakes that is very hard for a lot of people to understand. Think I'm an odd-ball! Classic!

I'm maori & the rental place next door is occupied by Tongans. They know I have them but are yet to ask if they can have a look.

Not my cup of tea either. But it is a business for Brian at snakebytes, same as battery hens, puppy farms etc. Supply & demand unfortunately. I do it for the love of the animal & not the almighty $$$. I know of no other private keeper who keeps venomous snakes in outdoor pits where they enjoy all the elements of mother nature. Just my view. Cheers

Nothing wrong with your opinion, thats what forums are all about. Fish in a bowl, bird in a cage, list goes on & on, go to any zoo with concrete floors, steel bars, nothing natural about that. But in time we learn new ways of doing things, over here we have very little on how to keep venomous snakes in Victoria. We learn from more experience keepers about what works & what doesn't. Their are no studys done on "how to do it" so we learn off those more knowledgeable. I do what works best for me with my top priority being my safety first then the welfare of the animal. Being doing it for 18 years now & as yet no problems. Keep to the 3 things in life (food, water & shelter) & we are headed in the right direction. If ever over this way look me up, would love to show you in more detail about these amazing animals. Cheers

And your point is?

All my adders are handled via a snake hook, 2 hooks used on the bigger females. Spend most of their time in plastic tubs & is easy to place another tub next to theirs on the floor & simply hook them over. Very easy to maintain like this when you have a few (around 30 adders). I do have some display enclosures that I use for them to "holiday in" & for mating. Always said I wouldn't do the venomous but as time goes by my direction changed & now have 80 odd venomous snakes & 6 pythons. Wife has no interest but hopes I do the right thing in maintaining them & my own safety. Full respect is given to all my venomous snakes. Cheers.

Thats the down side to keeping snakes, the time needed to look after the rodents. Often you spend more time on them than you do with your collection. My kids used to breed them but then they woke up! I have 3 breeders over here who look after me. There is money in breeding rodents for the reptile market over here.

Some of my Death Adders. Cape Crawford Cape Crawford Sydney Red Sydney Red Dajarra & 1 of her babies from this season at 1 week old & the rest of them Woodlands Red Woodlands Grey Camooweal Cheers.

& that is? Would of thought the zoos could have them.

Very nice leopard gecko's people, I do have a soft spot for them. Not mine but my room mate when I was staying in europe

A little over 2.7m & Rabbit nice looking carpet, had some in the past but only have the 1 jungle now. Some older pictures of past "carpets" Darwin Proserpine Brissy Centralian & the only one I keep now, a jungle (love the Taranaki colours)

Some people here say I have "issues" ha ha. Main thing to remember is that they are not toys & respect them for what they are & what they can do. Funny thing is that the snake with the worse attitude is non venomous! the Scrub Python, it will hurt, it will require stitches but she is family lol!

A male Tasmanian Black Tiger snake Kangaroo Island Black Tigers My scrub python (australia's longest snake), she's around 9 foot at the moment Red Belly Black snakes Cheers.

I sold the saltwater croc as it was a complete nutter & wasn't going to get any better. Bloke who took it was happy enough with it (reckon that will change). The freshwater crocs were sold when they reached 2 foot to another bloke who had renovated a bedroom complete with a "spa" for them. I didn't have the room for them as they grew larger & so if not prepared to give them what they need give them to someone who is. Sorry mate don't have any, am thinking of a lace monitor if I can come up with a large enclosure for it. Has to be a lizard/monitor that can live outside & deal with the elements. Some more crocodile pictures Saltwater Freshwater