PSimmo
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great video fuscus
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Hmmm I somehow double posted before?
Fuscus, thats Sonia Dewdney's animal isn't it? A slight bit of assistance and then away it goes...unreal! Be interesting to know how she got them feeding like that and just how much effort it took?
Fuscus, thats Sonia Dewdney's animal isn't it? A slight bit of assistance and then away it goes...unreal! Be interesting to know how she got them feeding like that and just how much effort it took?
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I recall back in the late 70's naturalist David Fleay at West Burleigh, Gold Coast, had an albino Bandy bandy! He showed it to me.
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All I know is that it is supposed to be from the gold coast
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Lol if the bandy bandy was patternless, it would have a similar face to small eyed. It was kinda a joke about them being ugly by the way lol I love them, it was wrong of me to compare them to such a disgusting snake.
Hey Matt I could nearly top your 30, unfortunately they were dead or dying so they wouldn't count :lol:
Beat my two 100% live ones :lol: one hooped the other slid of into long grass. They are so common yet they are always dead or dying they must aim to lay were peoples wheels go.
Hey Matt I could nearly top your 30, unfortunately they were dead or dying so they wouldn't count :lol:
Beat my two 100% live ones :lol: one hooped the other slid of into long grass. They are so common yet they are always dead or dying they must aim to lay were peoples wheels go.
Hmmm not Sonia's then. Great effort who ever it is though!
Also bandy bandys dont have serious attitude problems and throw themselves around like a mental lol. Yeah I find more dead than alive aswell, they say that they come out after rain (like blind snakes) but I've only seen them when its really dry.
the video is one of Sonias, im going up there this weekend to do her awsome course, and also do a bit of maintanace work with her collection, honestly i love bandy bandys, but they are a bit of a pain to feed, and have been told (i dont believe so) that they are hard to keep.
Beautiful herps though
Beautiful herps though
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Lol I have seen them in both, probably mostly dry. I also see most of my blind snakes in dry weather too. Yer small eyeds are pretty spastic, at least they are very forgiving to errors, they seem to head butt for a while then they get really pissed and start chewing like crazy (that is after you harass them for a while)
The NSW small-eyeds must be too cold to open their mouths lol the ones up here have no problem chewing on your boot, they are bloody quick and so unpredictable....one second they'll be laying their getting their photo taken, the next they'll be throwing themselves at your face before you can even react! lol
No Australian species of snakes feed on insects...one eats crustaceans. However snakes have been found with insects in their stomachs but probably just eaten by mistake.
Oh and blind snakes feed on termite eggs...bandy bandys then feed on the blind snakes.
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I've seen heaps of Bandy Bandies. On quite a few occasions I've seen several in one night, enough so that I haven't bothered to get out of the car to look at them. Most of the ones I have seen have looped. The first one I ever saw was reasonably small, and I was upset because it wouldn't loop. The other person I was with refused to accept that and pestered it for several minutes, and eventually it did loop. I've only seen a few which wouldn't loop (and other than the first one I've never seen one pestered all that much).
Several Australian snakes eat insects, especially some of the small elapids. I'm not sure if it's normal for a Bandy Bandy though. I have always wondered if they are as specialised as people believe, and I suspect they must sometimes eat reptiles other than Blind Snakes.
Bandy Bandies are very cool, I always love seeing them (provided I haven't seen several in the extremely recent past) but I couldn't imagine a snake I'd be much less interested in keeping. Good luck to anyone who does put the effort in though
Several Australian snakes eat insects, especially some of the small elapids. I'm not sure if it's normal for a Bandy Bandy though. I have always wondered if they are as specialised as people believe, and I suspect they must sometimes eat reptiles other than Blind Snakes.
Bandy Bandies are very cool, I always love seeing them (provided I haven't seen several in the extremely recent past) but I couldn't imagine a snake I'd be much less interested in keeping. Good luck to anyone who does put the effort in though
I'd love to hear more about this Sdaji...do you mean that they eat insects as a staple or on the odd occassion? What species are you refering to? It's taken my interest as I was under the impression that Australian snakes didn't feed on insects.
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