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Scott W · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: Species that have gone?

Thought it would be interesting to list the species that were kept & bred over the years that have now seem to of disappeared and possible reasons why.

I'm not talking extinct but not as easy to obtain as a few years back, a few examples;

Black Pine snakes
Speckled King snakes
Northen Pines
Tranpecos Rats
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Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject:

Speckled king snakes is a great example. Stunning animals in my view too.

Frog wise , Dendrobates truncatus used to be very common. People bred them in quantities, and before long the "market" was saturated. Then not enough people bred them and now they are like Rocking horse manure. I have three but they took some locating and came from Europe, but were hard enough to locate over there.

We don`t see the lacertids like we used to. I remember when Lacerta viridis were everywhere . Very rarely see them now although I wouldn`t say they have disssapeared completely.

Reeves terrapins, Chinemys reevesii. they were fantastic captives, not growing too large and easily accomodated. Far more suited to captivity and far more active than the red eared slider. You would be very hard pushed to find any over here now though.

Speckled kingsnakes though, really cannot remember the last time I saw one and yes, they used to be everywhere.
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Thomas Shanta · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

Solomans ground boas,don't see many Variegatus(Australian) being bred at the moment mainly Macdowelli.

Thomas Shanta · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

Just thought of another that was very popular in the late 90s Quadricornus chameleons,my mate Mark Raven used to bred quite a few of them.

Pendlehog · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject:

If anyone is interested in speckled kings, I friend of mine has a pair in burmation as we speak Wink

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JStroud · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

A lot of the European agamids, wall lizards and lacertids... Cool

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Scott W · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

955i · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

I remember Indigo snakes used to be pretty common, don't see many these days.
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Stuart · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject:

Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Me too! Great snakes, worse squirters ever! Laughing

I believe Keiron has some.
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