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Posted by chris_harper2 on February 23, 2003 at 09:48:36:
In Reply to: Sulawesi Black Rat snake? anyone keep these? posted by Bammer on February 23, 2003 at 01:21:13:
:Celebes Black Tailed Rat Snake, Sulawesi black rat snake, Elaphe Janseni?
I'm also a bit confused by the name on these. I gather the first one you listed is found on both Celebes and Sulawesi but then the black form is found only on Sulawesi.
Interestingly enough the Mangrove snakes found on Sulawesi are melanistic as well.
A friend of mine has worked with imports of both Jansen's forms and has had good luck. He and I also split up a group of Gonyosoma oxycephala imports and have had luck with those as well.
I hate to speak for him, but I think he would describe both of the Jansen's locales as a more terrestrial G. oxycephala. I think he also found them both a bit easier to acclimate that G. oxycephala but he's had good success with all of them.
He lives in another state but when I was last out there he had CB babies of the melanistic form. They looked identical to babies of the green G. oxycephala - green with reddish/gray tails. He is going to do scale count comparisons once he gets new sheds from his adults.
The babies are not for sale.
