BREEDING PROJECTS

This blue Philippine Mangrove Snake(Boiga dendrophila divergens) is among the most beautiful in the genus Boiga.  It is one of four subspecies of dendrophila occurring in the Philippines.  Some refer to this as the Luzon locality but that may be too broad of a term and a more specific location could be Polillo. There is also an axanthic morph which is genetic but can also be a little tricky to identify in hatchlings.  Babies tend to lean more to the easier side when it comes to rearing hatchlings. Our group is comprised of individuals of varying ages but we currently have 3.3 of which all are sexually mature and many are proven breeders.  We feed a varied diet of mice, rats, chicks and quail.  One of our favorites.

Another incredible Philippine Mangrove Snake hailing from Mindanao and some of the Visaya Islands.  The banding on these are very wide, very pronounced and also exhibit black edging which tends to define each scale.  The head pattern is particularly interesting and intricate.

We currently have a 1.2 trio of breedable adults.

The cynodon from the Philippines are quite unique and different from those found in other parts of SE Asia.  The color and pattern is just different but hard to describe to those that are not well-versed in all the different locality cynodon.  The best way we can describe this is that they just "pop".  The patterned animals are said to be from Bohol.  The patternless animals we do not know but we do have a pair and we have seen leucistic babies in group photos so we are not exactly sure as to the genetics and if there are multiple traits at play here or not.

Boiga cynodon are poorly represented in the hobby as a whole but I think very few people are aware that this species has so much diversity.  You can see the Philippine animals but here we also have Southern Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia represented.  Normal, melanistic and leucistic make for a very wild color palette to work with.  Traditionally bird and bird egg eaters, if you have access to quail, chicks or eggs, these are going to be right at home.

Boiga cyanea are a favorite among hobbyists.  Hatchlings start out bright orange with green heads and will grow into their final adult color of green.  We have two locality breeding groups, one from Central Thailand and the other from Nan in far North Thailand.   What sets the northern animals apart is their black eyes and some animals have some dark pattern.  Some question whether the black-eye animals could be a separate subspecies or even species but that has yet to be seen.

Malaysian melanota are probably the largest of the mangrove snakes in both length and over-all mass.  These are known for having a lower band count than their Indonesian counterparts and can also be quite aberrant.  Some animals can have little to no gold pattern while others can have dots or dashes on the jet black background.  These are usually quite easy feeders compared to the Indonesian locality animals.

This species is quite special to us as we are credited with bringing this snake into the hobby.  Previously these were simply for skinning due to their close similarity with King Cobra skin.  However, I started a quest that took several years to get them into the hobby.  The first ones were from Indonesia but once I saw how much more beautiful the Malaysia locality ones could be, I had to make sure that we dedicated a good amount of caging to these.  We have a large group that continues to grow every year.

Ridleyi are commonly found throughout Thailand and Malaysia and also in cave systems.  We have seen enough individuals in the wild to understand that each "colony" seems to have evolved towards different base colors.  We have three different breeding groups.  One locality specific, true field-collected Cameron Highlands group.  Two other pairs are captive bred from Europe which do not have locality data but are each two different and intense color schemes. 

Native to Vietnam, these have some variation as well.   Some can be grey with black pattern, gold with black pattern and others lean towards representing the common name they have been given.  We have a nice group of captive bred animals that we raised from babies.  Among Orthriophis, these can get quite large.

While in the USA, we bred these animals before we exported our group to Malaysia.  Currently we have a diverse group in our facility.  A heavy bodied colubrid snake with a solid appetite and actually a pretty calm demeanor generally speaking.

We have one pair of unicolors in our facility that are of the very clean appearance.  Some of these can be speckled depending on their origin but we prefer the ones with little to no speckling.

Currently we are working with two color forms of black-tails.  One is more typical with the gold colored body and the other is more of a reddish body, both have dark tails.  Our red animals are gaining in age so we hope to be able to breed them before it is too late.