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Does anyone know of anyone (aside from a few zoos) who is working with these guys? Common name: Rough-Scaled Python.
 
You realize that these are the rarest python species in the world?
Less than a dozen have been collected from the wild, unless there's been additional specimens recently.
Unless you know something I don't, there's only one zoo who is working with them, the Australian Reptile Park, and they have the only specimens in captivity. They did successfully reproduce them for the first time in 2001, but something tells me they didn't export any lol.
 
I believe the Reptile Gardens near Rapid City South Dakota has a group but your not going to get any from them and as far as I know they are the only animals in this country..Randy
 
Very cool Randy, thanks a lot for that link. I didn't know they had already made it into the country. Considering the export rules in Oz, I doubted any would get out.

Maybe one day they will make it into private collections, but with such a small founding pool it will be a tough road.
They are awesome snakes though.
 
Thanks, Raven! I knew about the animals at the Reptile Gardens but I was almost certain I'd heard around a year ago that Casey Lazik had gotten or was getting a few. That's actually why I was asking now. I hadn't seen the post that they were being offered on the market to the public in Australia, though.

And Clay, if I'd been looking for the information provided at http://www.bluemts.com.au/reptilepark/animals.asp?catID=15&ID=101 (6th Google hit, by my count) I would have read the web site again. Remember, not citing your sources is Plebeian! lol
 
That is where my information came from, however I didn't have the link handy to source it at the time of my post. I read that a couple of months back when searching for photos of the species to show someone else. I apologize for having a good, albeit short term memory, although I credited them for two extra specimens than they themselves report and couldn't recall the clutch size.

Interestingly though as a result of this thread I was informed privately this evening that an individual in New South Wales claims to have produced 10 hatchlings and has them for sale at $10,000 per pair.
Being passed word of mouth, the acuracy of this claim is of course unverified, and at this point in my opinion suspect. Should it prove to be true however, specimens hatched in private hands might result in their being available to private collectors here much sooner than we expect. If they do exist I'm sure some enterprising smugglers are already making hopeful plans to liberate them from their homeland.
 
lol I think the phrase "enterprising smuggler" is the most interesting one I've heard all day, but I'm not sure a smuggler would be necessary to bring the animals into the US from Wales. The question would be, of course, whether or not the breeder there had obtained the animals legally. $10,000 per pair certainly does seem surprisingly low for what they are, though.
 
Does New South Wales not follow the same strict anti exportation laws as the rest of Australia?
 
I think there is some confusion as to the location as New South Wales is bit of a trip from Wales.. I agree with you Clay sad is it is, it wont be long till they show up in Europe, guess our American smugglers are not as brave as those across the pond. Why they don't just open up a bit and allow some exportation, would be in everyones best interest .. Randy
 
Ooo, is it a "Mexico" "New Mexico" and "England" "New England" thing? As far as the Australian ban on all exportation, I can respect and understand why they have the laws they do, even if they do really kinda suck for reptile keepers. Personally, I think they should allow their zoos to sell a fixed number of animals each on the open market. The revenue generated from the sale of just a single pair of rough scaled pythons, for example, would certainly pay for quite a bit of snake food.
 
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