Bitis rhinoceros what a beauty

Absolutely gorgeous.

Looks like an appropiate weight, too. Most of the large Bitis are extremely overfed in captivity and carry a lot more un-needed weight than what they should do.

I am also liking the naturalistic look of the set up the snake is in. How old? What locality? CB or WC?

Looks very good, Gabby's are awesome and he (if I remember correctly) is looking great, glad he's doing well with you.

I think our very own Dendroaspis would be able to answer your questions better than what I could, I am sure its CB, well I hope so at least

I try with all my animals to make there enclosures look as naturalistic as possible, I feel good when my enclosures look good, as much as I love everything that goes into reptiles ie: cleaning,feeding and learning, I also find them to be amazing displays that are interesting to everyone not only reptile enthusiasts.

I will post more pics after his shed, as I told Dendroaspis, he has just come out of the blue and I expect a full shed waiting for me when I get home hopefully.

I am unsure of its locality, but it is CB (captive born) not CBB, the mother was more than likely a WC gravid. From what I was told the mother was imported gravid and the babies dropped in captivity

Got a gaboon I'm trying to give back to the owner. Pretty animal but dang stupid if you ask me.

you can send it to me?

The chap was WC and ended up not eating. Its taken a while but Ive got the oak eating and happily unstressed. Know I want the owner to make plan as I am not not cool with adders and vipers.
I am a cobra person. Its like being a dog or cat person.

Yeah same here, I feel far more comfortable around elapids.

I must admit, I love all vipers, but my weekness is all the dwarf Bitis, I want to own every dwarf Bitis I can possibly get my hands on

I'm more of a Viper guy, personally.

ammodytes wrote:

real nice snake, i love gaboons

Pseudechis wrote:

Absolutely gorgeous.

Looks like an appropiate weight, too. Most of the large Bitis are extremely overfed in captivity and carry a lot more un-needed weight than what they should do.

How often do you feed yours to make sure they dont get to fat? I think ikilled mine from over feeding, was feeding it one or twice a week! Too much perhaps~?

This is the first Gaboon I have ever owned, it had an awesome feeding response and would take food all the time, I never once overfed this animal, and dont see the need to, they do not eat that much in the wild so should'nt change much in captivity. Thats just what I think. Over feeding these animals could definatly cause premature death, so just watch out next time, sorry for your loss.

Don't fall into the trap, Ammodytes - That was clearly bullsh!t - Nobody feeds Gaboons even once a week as neonates, let alone fricken adults.

I will never fall into that trap, thats why I purchase a lot of my animals at sub adult or adult age, because I dont have the patience to get them to a decent size, and I sure as hell dont want to over feed them to get them to this size quickly

No, don't fall into opiophagus' trap...............He is talking BS for a reaction.

Oh ok, sorry havent been on the site for a while, so I didnt know that he was taking the piss,

He's not even been on for a week, and taking the piss already. LOL.

haha, Its a shame aint it, there is one in every crowd.

Pseudechis wrote:

Don't fall into the trap, Ammodytes - That was clearly bullsh!t - Nobody feeds Gaboons even once a week as neonates, let alone fricken adults.

Yet again your makng it obvious you dont know what your talking about! one of the top Bitis people in the uk feeds his baby bitis approx. every 5 days, then slows down as they get bigger.

Pseudechis wrote:

No, don't fall into opiophagus' trap...............He is talking BS for a reaction.

Im no bullshitter. Aint see any pics of your collection mate?!

ammodytes wrote:

haha, Its a shame aint it, there is one in every crowd.

Haha, well atleast viperlover hasnt arrived yet

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May I ask who is this top Bitis people you are talking about ??