a while ago i did a video about five dream species that you know under perfect circumstances if i
had all the money in the world you know nothing illegal but you know dream species out there of
ones that i would really hopefully be able to get but as everyone knows no one has just five dream
species so today i wanna talk about a few more and actually it's gonna be six stream species that i
will hopefully have the real possibility of getting maybe not this year or next but
in the hopefully near to distant future and i'm just going to go through some honestly
really cool animals that i think are amazing that i just want to share and talk about so to start
things off with one of if not the rarest snake in the hobby today and that is the rough scale python
so as with a lot of snakes that we have here in the hobby we gotta look to australia so
in australia in the far northwestern part of the island continent whatever you want to call
it in the kimberley region which for some of you reptile aficionados should know kind of where that
is basically they have the smallest range or one of the smallest ranges of any known snake species
it's this tiny little area in the kimberley region of northwestern australia that's kind of in
between two different little rivers and in between some mountains and there's like a couple little
valleys where not a whole lot is known about them they were basically rediscovered very recently
and they a really cool looking snake they're basically like if you took
a green tree python gave it the scales of a bull snake and then gave it the attitude personality
and temperament of like a brettel's python but so we're talking you know a five to six foot long
snake with keeled scales that holds on to humidity retains that humidity in there and then has more
of like a kind of chiller carpet attitude with bright blue turquoise eyes they are so
pretty one of the very few animals on this list that actually there are a couple that i've gotten
to touch at this point but some of the animals that i've very infrequently gotten the ability to
actually handle which just makes me want it more such a beautiful beautiful animal they're so cool
not a whole lot is known about them the other than the kind of area where they're from
um they have been associated with like fruit trees they have been found up in the canopies of those
trees maybe like preying on animals that come by and if they're not hanging out there they're
kind of on like soundstone outcroppings of the rocks or the valleys that they live in
they're still very rare but a few of them have come from i think i believe european lines because
more stuff was exported out to europe than ever got to here been exported and we are starting to
get them more frequently in the hobby they breed very successfully their keeping and husbandry is
not terribly difficult or complex so they're getting more popular there are more animals
and they're starting to pop up here and there and one of my favorite pitch office breeders actually
keeps rough scales as well so maybe one day i'll be hitting them up for
some really cool pine snakes and baja gophers and maybe a couple rough scales as well this
one is one that i haven't personally been able to handle but i've met a few private keepers that do
keep them as well as i've seen them in several zoos and that is the dominican mountain red bow
or the dominican red mountain boat i've seen them both ways so please don't yell at me in
the comments about that basically on the island of hispaniola it's divided into two countries
with haiti on one on the eastern side and the dominican republic on the western side and on
there there are three subspecies of a species of boa that are divided between the haitian boa the
dominican boa and the other one that i am totally brain fighting on right now and apologize we don't
really work with it too much in the hobby so i'll try to remember to put it right here but
on the western side on the one very small part of it that's the dominican red mountain boa a
beautiful beautiful animal that is a very moderate good sized snake you know five to six feet ish
long they can get a little bit longer i believe upwards of eight feet would be a very large one
they are very well known for that bright red coloration although there is quite a variety of
individual in them in their natural range there's a big wide variety of like a dark
gray to black scale of rusty oranges and browns and even a little bit of yellow and similar to
other animals a very good example would be crested geckos they are actually able to hormonally
shift and fire up fire up their color to do different ones so it could be kind of a dark brown
and fire up to a bright orange it's a very very cool animal and while i'm not going to pretend
that my favorite is not that bright red color it is really amazing and cool to see such a diversity
of the individual of animals in such a small range of an area they normally
look very similar in small pocket of populations and they'll diversify as populations grow out
geographically it's such a really cool snake they typically have it's it's kind of well known
that of almost i hate the blanket statements but they're basically a very well-tempered
chill semi-arboreal animal that handles very well and is very tolerant they don't get very large but
they do like to climb so essentially kind of what i want to do in some of my cages at least in this
building is i want to have larger taller custom pvc enclosures to put some of these and i'm going
to talk about all of the ones today in those enclosures to do very well they're an amazing
species and our good buddies up in anchorage at the reptile barn actually have a pair of them
who have been teasing them almost as long as my doom rolls have been teasing me about
uh having a litter of those so hopefully one day they do produce some and i'll be getting some of
them from them as well i have talked about the teamwork python in at least two other videos
and that is saying something because i try to diversify and not repeat too much of the different
snake species to try to always keep it changing so both i'm learning new things into research
as well as i'm presenting new stuff for all of you to watch and learn about as well but i love the
team or python so these guys are actually found down in the sunda islands in parts of indonesia
i did incorrectly state in the first video they talked about them that they are found
on the island of timor there's actually several islands that make up the sunda island archipelago
that are actually found on t-more they're found on several other ones um they are a moderate-sized
species they're part of the genus malaya python which has had several other people come in and
out of that genus including bollins pythons bismarck pythons and uh reticulated pythons
and honestly team wars kind of look like a shrunken down really cool patterned reticulated
python but they don't necessarily act like that they're supposedly a little bit more feisty and
flighty compared to a lot of other python species but they're so pretty i just love the pattern
there's no real morphs or pattern aberrations or anything like that it's just kind of a really
aberrant modeled varied really cool pattern that they have of their dorsal scales and it has that
really distinct cutoff between their belly and their dorsal scales they're just so beautiful
they are like a lot of the ones i'm going to talk about today of fairly arboreal they spend
basically like half and half of their time on the ground and in trees so again some a nice little
custom habitat where you're able to have a bunch of really good climbing and perching branches
of nice uva uvb light a big nice wide open area for them to go to the ground if they so choose
it'd be amazing to get a pair of those to work with this one might actually surprise
some people considering how much i favor uh a lot of the old world rat snakes and boas and pythons
but this one is arguably the most beautiful and striking non-venomous snake on the planet
asterisk and that is the california red-sided garter snake and the reason why i say asterisk
is because it is very closely related to the san francisco red side of california garter snake
and basically there is a little bit of difference between both the locality the individual
subspecies as well as the san francisco's are usually just a little bit brighter and more
colorful and consistent this these animals are bright red and blue with black blotching
and checkers they look incredible they are a garter snake but they actually get a little bit
larger than a lot of the ones that we usually see in the hobby like the planes the wanderings
and the checkers they can actually get upwards of 50 inches or more beautiful beautiful snake
however the san francisco garter snake is actually very endangered it's up there with the endangered
species in north america like the eastern indigo the black pine snake and the louisiana pine snake
so if you ever wanted to work with a san francisco number one their populations are not nearly
as prevalent in captivity as some of the other ones i just mentioned but you again need special
permits and things like that and i believe because california has even other rules that i am unaware
of it's probably even more difficult to work with the san francisco's however the california
red side of garter snake which there is a little bit more variation of is not endangered but it is
heavily sought after because of how beautiful it is and they don't have as large of litters because
they are ovo vivarius which means that garter snakes as a whole i believe there's one or two
that are not um but they develop eggs inside of them the eggs hatch and then the babies come
out they don't have as large of litter clutches i don't know exactly the real terminology for
that as some of the other ones so they don't have as many babies they are highly sought
after and they're very expensive so out of this whole list it will probably be the one that i
get the last unless again someone that i know really closely is like okay we're gonna get you
this tri-stripe ball python this dominican mountain boa this one this one this one i go
okay here's my money for the year back on track for the species that are semi-arboreal this is
one that i've talked about again in another video but i absolutely i i must get a hold of these guys
these are the madagascar malagasy tree boas or senzenia is the genus you've probably if any of
you guys have started to divulge a little bit into the different types of reptiles
you may have heard of that genus or type of sink before that senzenius snake
so these guys are found essentially the way a lot of madagascar species of the different ones
are kind of split up to where there's easterns and westerns of the senzania two different subspecies
just like in dome roseville's there's doom robos and then malagasy ground balls a little
bit different different those two are different species but the senzini are different subspecies
these guys are really really cool their behavior and their habitats are fairly similar where these
guys are actually really heavy they're kind of a weird looking tree bow they're really heavy
body for an arboreal snake they're much much more thicker more stoutly built they don't get terribly
long maxing out around six feet so a lot of that that arboreal snake length that's that four to six
feet because they just kind of curl up pretty well although they don't make that perfect like little
clutch and perch that like gtps and amazon and emerald tree boast make
then they have a really kind of blocky stout head it looks almost like you took an amazon
tree bow and a dume rolls bow and they made a love baby and it looks absolutely amazing
and also similar to similarly to a lot of other snakes they go through an autogenic change which
means when they hatch or when they're born because they're a boa live birth they look away and then
as they get older their outward appearance or their color changes so with green tree pythons
they're born yellow red and then they grow to that bright green color these guys are born
a really reddish ruddy orange color and then they slowly change up to their adult forms with the
easterns being this kind of bright green black and white and then the westerns being a tannish brown
white and black both with striking almost like diamond patterns along them they look so cool
and again they are a weird animal again like i said super thick body weird head for a tree bow
still really big teeth like most arboreal snakes but these guys in madagascar have frequently been
found at night on the ground hunting going through the leaf litter looking for things
and then during the day they're actually up in the trees and perched up in the trees away
from ground predators probably like domero's boas and other animals that are cruising around on the
ground for other animals so they're hiding up the trees during the day which is the dribo which is
probably where they originally found and then at night is actually where they're doing good
majority of their hunting probably so again one of my picture perfect ones almost similar to like my
carpet python cage uh that juliette has as i go over here is the camera's stuck sorry about that
where it's almost like a square where there's a good amount of floor space plus plenty of room
to perch and to climb around on branches i don't know which of the two species that i of the two
subspecies the easterns or the westerns i don't honestly know which i like like there's nothing
like a a green snake especially like a larger green snake that's really cool but the patterns of
the westerns are just so beautiful i really don't know which one i want and i know i don't have the
space to get a pair of both and as i mentioned earlier in the video i have a real profinity to
boas and pythons as well as asian rat snakes now i already have what i think might be my favorite
asian rat snake and that's the rhino rat but there is a very close runner up and that is the
100 flower rat snake or otherwise known as the mullendorf's rap snake these guys are beautiful
so these hubs are found in parts of china into northern vietnam they live in mountainous
topography again if we think of the mountains of china so like the low rolling foggy mountains with
nice thick uh with cooler temps and and thick vegetation sometimes non-deciduous vegetation
it's really cool it get that very distinct picture in your mind like think kung fu panda almost uh
and then this snake is amazing so basically this is a very large asian rat snake where the
coloration of it looks the pattern is very similar to like a corn snake where it's that kind of
model pattern and checkered underbelly but instead of being that four to f like four to five foot
long corn snake it's sometimes upwards of eight plus feet bright green and silver colored and then
with a ruddy red sometimes too bright red head and tail with red eyes they look beautiful and then
that hundred flower is essentially what they get from that bright green
stem of the body it's that bright red and the coloration looks like 100 flowers blooming right
sorry hidden stuff but this is such a cool snake they're really rare in the hobby because similar
to the mandarin rat snakes for a long time we would get them out of like food markets out of
china and vietnam where they wouldn't be kept very well and had a very low survivability rate
and these guys suffered a very similar bleak outlook but some people
in the united states as well as in europe and other places have started to breed them
with a little bit more frequency and they're starting to pop up a little bit more often
so a captain bread animal just like a mandarin rat snake is almost like a corn snake with a little
bit different husbandry needs the mullendorf rat snakes are getting closer to almost like a beauty
snake of needs although not nearly as feisty as like the taiwanese beauties or the vietnamese
blue beauties as adults they do need very large enclosures probably like six feet by three feet at
minimum because they are fairly arboreal they're very long and thin body they're not really like
a really thick heavy snake like a boa they're really thin and long almost like almost like
the yellowtail cribos where they're still gonna have a decent body size but because they're so
long they're a little bit more thin and strung out they will be found on the ground and
under rocks and in caves and crevices but they are fairly active during the day so they make a really
cool display species so you can have this very large impressive setup maybe bioactive heavily
planted and you can just have like a really cool fogger again you need to keep them at cooler temps
they overheat very easily like a lot of the asian species they could just look amazing and that is
something i really want to do like i said i have this big building that i have some of the more
uh warmer weather ones and then the geckos and the asian rats are in a different building that one of
these days i will have like my brazilian rainbow boas they'll be there that's where they are now
they'll be there in much larger enclosures and then i'll have my asian rat snakes that'll have
like on one wall the mullendore frat snake with like the little geckos probably around that so
i have to change up the whole thing one of these days so anyway just amazing amazing cool species
and then obviously as i've said before i don't know how many times huge snake guys so that's why
all these are snake ones and it's not to say that i don't absolutely want some other lizard species
you've heard me talk about getting a mertens monitor i don't know how many times at this point
but i just want to share with you some really cool species of snakes that i absolutely have
a passion for i can't wait to get a hold of and i just wanted to share some of those with you guys
maybe you've heard of them maybe you heck maybe you even work with some of them you would say hey
jz i have a clutch coming this year do you want to get your name on the list give me that money
and i'll say how i'll do my best this is oh my goodness but hopefully you guys did enjoy
this video hope everyone's having a great day questions comments concerns ideas for
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