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Good stuff, yep, that little male mating with the big girl is just incredible! And yep, he survived each time, the females are just so good with the males it's amazing, nothing like watching New World species fight it out, none of that sort of bs In all the times I've bred Phlogius species, only twice have I ever seen a female eat the male, and one of those times the male lost his footing and slipped under her, she reacted badly to say the least
Now as for the Selenotypus plumipes species group, those females are monsters in captivity, I'm yet to have a single male survive a breeding season, often even a single breeding session!! Most other Selenotypus spp. are much easier, as are Selenotholus spp. The now infamous rattler group are almost impossible to captive breed, almost......
Yep, maturation rates are often slow, but the UK account does not surprize me one bit, with power feeding a faster rate can be achieved.
@ jigalojey, which Aussie forum, the AIF forum??
Thanks guys,
Steve
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Thanks
Now as for the Selenotypus plumipes species group, those females are monsters in captivity, I'm yet to have a single male survive a breeding season, often even a single breeding session!! Most other Selenotypus spp. are much easier, as are Selenotholus spp. The now infamous rattler group are almost impossible to captive breed, almost......
Yep, maturation rates are often slow, but the UK account does not surprize me one bit, with power feeding a faster rate can be achieved.
@ jigalojey, which Aussie forum, the AIF forum??
Thanks guys,
Steve
---------- Post added 12-07-2013 at 12:55 AM ----------
Thanks for showing the kids all grown up and doing their own thing, making new families. Even with the papers we're working on, I still feel the export success is one of my proudest moments, I spent about a year dealing with everyone in power over here telling me no way I'll ever get permission, but "they" often don't know what they're talking about I've seen many second gen. offspring now, so in the end it really worked, I couldn't be happier about that, images like these just make my dayI bought a P. sp 'Goliath'her as a 1/2 inch sling and 3 years later she is about 6.5 -7 inches, the MM in these pics is around 5-6 inches.
Thanks