To Don with the Elaphe porphyracea coxi....

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Posted by Aucone on November 02, 2000 at 21:51:36:

I saw the posts below that you received some Elaphe p. coxi and were inquiring about some information. I take care of a couple of pairs at work and thought I would pass along some information I recently gained about them from Klaus-Dieter Schulz in Germany who breeds them.
Probably the most important is not to let them get too hot. He recommended not getting over 28 degrees centigrade and that he keeps them at about 25 degrees C during the day and they can get down to about 20 degrees C at night. He said that warmer temperatures can be detrimental to their health.
He keeps them on peat moss and said they like it fairly moist but not wet. I keep mine on half the cage moist sphagnum moss and the other half pine shavings. They do tend to spend most of their time burrowing around in the sphagnum moss but I have seen them over in the pine at times as well. There is no heat lamp provided but that is because we have an HVAC system maintaining the temperatures for the building.
Their feeding is fairly straight forward and I just put pinky mice in the cage near them overnight and they chow them up. They are a very cool subspecies of the Elaphe porphyracea group. In fact, as of the writing of Klaus-Dieter Schulzs' Elaphe monograph book in '96 or '97 the coxi subspecies hadn't even been officially described. They are just an spp. in there. Good luck, I just thought I would pass on any information that I had that might help.
Brian Aucone

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: I saw the posts below that you received some Elaphe p. coxi and were inquiring about some information. I take care of a couple of pairs at work and thought I would pass along some information I recently gained about them from Klaus-Dieter Schulz in Germany who breeds them. : Probably the most important is not to let them get too hot. He recommended not getting over 28 degrees centigrade and that he keeps them at about 25 degrees C during the day and they can get down to about 20 degrees C at night. He said that warmer temperatures can be detrimental to their health. : He keeps them on peat moss and said they like it fairly moist but not wet. I keep mine on half the cage moist sphagnum moss and the other half pine shavings. They do tend to spend most of their time burrowing around in the sphagnum moss but I have seen them over in the pine at times as well. There is no heat lamp provided but that is because we have an HVAC system maintaining the temperatures for the building. : Their feeding is fairly straight forward and I just put pinky mice in the cage near them overnight and they chow them up. They are a very cool subspecies of the Elaphe porphyracea group. In fact, as of the writing of Klaus-Dieter Schulzs' Elaphe monograph book in '96 or '97 the coxi subspecies hadn't even been officially described. They are just an spp. in there. Good luck, I just thought I would pass on any information that I had that might help. : Brian Aucone

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