House Snake Collection

[TLD]

Just some house snakes.


Kobe





Peach





Orange



Jackdaw



Rook



Raven (new girl so not really any good photos yet.)


Thanks for looking!

[Scubadiver59]

Nice! I'm on a Rat Snake binge...maybe I'll hit those up later.

[Trouser Snake]

Awesome pics

[dannybgoode]

Love house snakes and that's a great collection you have.

[TLD]

Thanks everyone!

[whistlepig]

Great looking snakes! Love the eyes.

[jjhill001]

I love the all black ones. Is that a locality or subspecies thing or are they just random in the wild?

[Magdalen]

Oooooooh house snakes they are lovely. I have one myself

[TLD]

Originally Posted by jjhill001

I love the all black ones. Is that a locality or subspecies thing or are they just random in the wild?

There is a subspecies of house snake, boaedon olivaceus identified by bright orange/red eyes and undivided subcaudual scales that is frequently quite dark. There is also a black color phase of boaedon fuliginosus which is what you most commonly find in captivity. You can also find mixes of the two commonly known as hobby olives

Originally Posted by Magdalen

Oooooooh house snakes they are lovely. I have one myself

Yes I'm a fan of Thor! Such a cutie. He's got good a speckled contrast pattern I like.

[toddnbecka]

You can also find mixes of the two commonly known as hobby olives

I though that different species of house snakes couldn't interbreed? Never kept any myself, read that somewhere along the line.
Nice collection you have. I haven't run across any at the reptile shows, or I'd likely have at least one too.

[dannybgoode]

Originally Posted by toddnbecka

I though that different species of house snakes couldn't interbreed? Never kept any myself, read that somewhere along the line.
Nice collection you have. I haven't run across any at the reptile shows, or I'd likely have at least one too.

Yep - true B olivaceous are very difficult to find because of the crossing producing the 'hobby' ones. I'd love a true olivaceous and am holding out should I ever come across one.

[TLD]

Originally Posted by toddnbecka

I though that different species of house snakes couldn't interbreed? Never kept any myself, read that somewhere along the line.
Nice collection you have. I haven't run across any at the reptile shows, or I'd likely have at least one too.

I've seen instances of success as well as seen reports of people having issues. Laeticia Bx this year had a clutch of boaedon fuliginosus and boaedon lineatus hybrids. You can look on A C Snakes website and read their accounts of a boaedon capensis x boaedon lineatus breeding (unfortunately with photobucket tanking the pictures are no longer up). I know of successful capensis and fuliginosus pairings. Hobby olives by all reports are boaedon olivaceus x boaedon fuliginosus.

I honestly don't know which subspecies are unable to interbreed with which other subspecies. If I was a gambling woman looking at this old thread here it looks like the little tan male is boaedon mentalis being paired up with a fuliginosus so from his reports I'd say at least mentalis is a no go with capensis or fuliginosus but really this is just me making a guess.

[Magdalen]

Originally Posted by TLD

Yes I'm a fan of Thor! Such a cutie. He's got good a speckled contrast pattern I like.

Thank you he's a doll and people keep saying they like his pattern. I love Orange's color. I love those vivid oranges. Someone shared a photo of their blue eye Lucy cape house snake on a FB group that I found just lovely even tho it's not so vivid like I usually like.

[Trouser Snake]

They're all awesome but I like the look of the cape house snakes in particular, that's another possible first snake for me.

[TLD]

Some baby house snakes I have that are hatching!