tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41961344076867108682011-11-27T15:51:11.928-08:00The African House Snake Blog is an informational resource that explores all Species and Phases of the genus Lamprophis.Jack Spirkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468695260899474152noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196134407686710868.post-68382233745095069282007-11-06T08:18:00.001-08:002007-11-06T08:32:49.917-08:00

I have finally found the time to set up my website that will both provide information about the African House Snake and other African Colubrids and be my outlet for selling my captive bred animals.I have set up a new house snake blog on that site as well and I will post all new information and articles to the new blog.I am leaving this existing blog up for informational purposes but will not be

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Don over at Mfezi just launched a brand new African Herpers forum. Cruise on by Mefezi and check it out.Also I just got the inside scoop that a large new shipment of animals is about to come in. Odds are there will be some Lamprophis along with some other cool stuff. Don tends to get a lot of snakes and reptiles that are not commonly available.I suggest you sign up for his newsletter to get

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Don Schultz over at Mfezi.com has some Rhombic Skaapstekers (Psammophylax rhombeatus) available right now. In fact he has a single large pair. While this blog is mostly about House Snakes I have a lot of interest in any lesser known snakes, specificly those out of Africa.If you have an interest in Psammophylax you may want to get in touch with Don strait away. Far as I know he has only one

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These are different then the L. Capensis with a genetic stripe trait I posted shots of before.These three lovely animals are Lamprophis lineatus from the Kilamanjaro area of Tanzania (commonly known as the striped house snake) and were just shipped to me by Nick Mole of FCR Reptiles. Nick was extremely helpful with answering my questions and handling a shipping change I had to make. The

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Don over at Mfezi.com just got in some new snakes strait in from South Africa. While he has qutie a few interesting new animals for sale the big interest for Lamprophis fans will be the trio of Olive House Snakes he has.These are L. inornatus which are commonly called the South African Olive House Snake but they are not true olives, more accurately they are often called the Black House Snake

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Here are a few shots of one of our Cape House Snakes (lamprophis capensis). This is a striped female that should reach breeding size in about 8-10 months.Hope you enjoyed them, this girl is deffinitely one of my favorites,~ Jack SpirkoTags: african house snake, cape house snake, house snake, house snake pictures, house snakes, lamprophis capensis, reptile photography, snakes, striped house snake

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Often House Snake dealers are asked what kind of "mophs" do you have and I think very few people realize just how beautiful a "normal" house snake can be. That is certainly the case with this male.He is a plain old normal Cape House Snake, (Lamprophis Capensis) commonly called the Brown House Snake and there for confused with his cousin the Brown House Snake from further north (Lamprophis

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Here are two pictures of one of our young Tanzanian Female Red House Snakes. This is the most common species Lamprophis Fuliginosus which is highly variable in color and pattern. Red of course is the most popular color for obvious reasons.The two pictures here are really the same picture cropped differently because this is our one biter in the bunch and she is still adjusting to captivity.

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If you keep a few snakes then it is easy to rely on your local pet shops for your feeder rodent needs. Even the small scale breeder can often get by just picking up some frozen rodents at one or two reptile shows a year. Yet if like me you keep a colony or just don't want the hassle of having to worry about getting feeders often buying in bulk is a great idea.Having just built my colony to a

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Well we broke down and bought a new camera an awesome Sony Alpha which is Sony's new DSLR with a 10.2 Mega Pixel sensor. To break it in I took some shots of three of our house snakes and some of our other animals as well. I though I would share them with our visitors.First my male transvaal phase African House Snake. He is wild caught from the Highveld if you look close you can see what is left

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That was the question I asked Donald Shultz at Mfezi.com on the phone a few months ago. I had found Don’s Website and noticed he had House Snakes of several species and available and was bringing in new ones all the time from a mix of captive bred and wild caught stock. At the time I was focused on one thing, “red phase” brown house snakes (AKA Lamprophis Fuliginosus) doing some selective

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The more common questions is why are my house snakes breeding but producing infertile eggs. Quite often this is in the attempt to create heterozygous amelinestic (AKA albino or amel) house snakes where the breeder obtains say a amelinistic male and attempts to breed it into a "normal" female. Amel house snakes are still quite expensive running from 200-400 an animal so this is a common tactic.

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It is no secret that the African House Snake is an under appreciated species in the pet trade. No one has really gone out of their way to educate the market on how great these little animals are and hence only a few breeders have them on hand with any regularity. I decided to post on a few of them for our visitors. We will not be releasing any stock to the public from our breeding efforts

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