• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Introducing a new pickup and species question?

Charis

Charis

New member
Joined
Jul 31, 2009
Messages
812
Reaction score
15
Points
0
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, USA
Just got this little male African House snake. Currently without a name. I was hoping those experienced would be able to tell me what subspecies he is?
84347a6596886fb11391264f5861302f.jpg

c47acd0e86f65d71905f998b3097c0bf.jpg

7feba0a06adfbe5c7a9befd9773b6928.jpg

57fa96329930a32fbc7aa49087c7ff5a.jpg

31e52fe389c0fcee9863b8b5bff3e4b2.jpg
 
Just for future reference,

The other common species on the market are Cape house snakes (B. capensis). To date, this is the only species available in albinism in America.

The common "brown" house snake (I hate using colors for common names) is B. fuliginosus. I rarely see any normal phenotypes offered for sale. The ones often sold as "blacks" "olives" or "West African olives" are actually a dark locality phase of this species. They are not to be confused with the true Olive house snake (B. olivaceus), which is very rare in captive collections.
 
Yeah, I was referring to the B. fuliginosus as the Brown. That seems to be the common name for that subspecies? Agree that a common name based on color is quite confusing! I've read about all the various subspecies and their scientific names but still have a hard time remembering how to spell them, so I tend to be lazy and just use the common. I really should work on that though!
 
Yeah, because technically the normal coloration for a lot of them is brown! Hence a lot of dealers are also lazy and market their animals as "Brown house snakes" but it could be one of 3-4 species. And guess what? They can't hybridize with each other! Great news if you're a purist, but not so great if you're not savvy on your house snake I.D. skills and you end with an odd pair. It has happened to more than a few people.

Check out: http://lamprophis.proboards.com/index.cgi

Good site, friendly people...will definitely help you get familiar with the house snake world.
 
Back
Top