Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Graeme » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:30 pm

2 slugs and 52 little tea kettles with a 27 male and 25 female ratio. Too cute for words.

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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Mehelya » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:46 pm

Almost speechless! Congratulations dude! That must be an amazing sight to see in person! Those are really pretty WA Gaboons! A nice sized litter as well! You must be over the moon!
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Bob H » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:53 am

Congratulations Graeme, those are really interesting pictures, a sea of Bitis!
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Postby shamroth » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:50 am

Absolutely speechless. Huge congratulations on those!
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby nvlooi » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:52 am

Congratulations!

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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Mitton » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:04 am

Wow, that is FANTASTIC. That is a whole bunch of mouths to feed, good luck and well done!
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby bradmiller » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:29 am

Stunning..... LOL @ "little tea kettles" :-)
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby roadkill456 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:31 am

Absolutely amazing! Seems like xmas came early, congrats Graeme, best of luck with them.
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Westley Price » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:33 am

Awesome pictures to show the amount of babies!

Imagine walking in a forest and finding yourself in the middle of this mass!

There are a few stunners in there. Please do share individual pics of your keepers if there are any.
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby vuduman » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:36 am

Congrats man.Some of those are very interestingly marked with the saddles joining.I'm sure you can make striped ones through celective breeding in a few years.
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby don patterson » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:08 am

Wow those are quite the pics. Amazing, beautiful and bit crazy for us non ven. keepers.
I love how the eyes track when they are watching you, that makes you appreciate and resepct them a lot more than most herps.
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Graeme » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:36 pm

Thank you all very much! It was an absolute nightmare finding all the little ones as the parents enclosure is enormous. I definitely want to keep a few back Westley, but I can't make up my mind. Those weirdly saddled ones are really interesting and I reckon they will turn out as incredible adults, but some of the classic 'normal' ones are carrying some incredible pinks and purples, and then of course one always wants to hold onto the biggest, loudest, cheekiest, most alert.... *sigh*
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby leonthemenace » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:57 pm

My mom said I can keep one....(",)
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby Hustler » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:01 pm

Very nice Graeme, congrats!
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Re: Baby Western Gaboons (B.gabonica rhinoceros) 10/12/11

Postby alvinno » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:11 pm

Stunning, along with the other list of hatchlings you produced this season looking forward to the other TREATIES you have.
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1.1.0 (Eunectes notaeus)
4.4.1 (Elaphe guttata guttata)
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