This is one of my brown tree snakes, any other keepers of these mad snakes out there?

Seems 'odd' calling it a brown when it is clearly candy striped.

Boiga candistripus

love the snake that is cool, i would love to get one but still convincing my mum, she dont like the vens, are they a good snake, do they make a good pet, how large do they get and how large is the enclosure? i would love to see some more pictures.

Lol yeah Wrasse i know what you mean, but a candy stiped tree snake just doesn't sound cool, know what i mean? Banded tree snake is what they really are though it's the same snake as a brown tree snake, just a pattern difference.
Jason, just dont tell Mum they are venemous. They really are harmless unless you perhaps have an extremely low immune system, or perhaps if a toddler or baby got bitten. But then again they have never bitten me so i cant say from personal experience what they're bite is like other than they seem to almost chew on their victim to get their rear fangs into it. I believe they can grow up to 8 or 9 foot, females are usually a bit smaller i believe. I have a pair in a 4x2x2 enclosure but regard this as way too small and will move them into a taller enclosure soon something like 5 or 6 foot high would be ideal for adults i reckon, they are extremely active and love the high spots. I think they are great snakes to keep but dont handle them much as they can be flighty, i'd just rather not stress them.

Stunning looking snake. I hope to get one next year, along with a BHP and Bredli. LOL

i noe im replyin late lol im new
im only 14 but wen i did my snake handling course 4 a ven snake license here in darwin
the teacher had just caught a few of them and even straight out of the wild were nicly behaved they are great snakes

im lucky my parents dont mind wat snake i have as long as i look after them the only ven snake i have is a nothern small eyed snake or secretive snake it is about the same ven as ur bandy bandy

wat do u have to do were u live 4 a ven license

here all u need is a writtin letter from people that can voge u can handle them properly

but since im 14 i can only get a cat 1 lincense from my parents on my behalf 4 cat 2 n 3 u need to be older then 18

but i can just make my dad have the license shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

In NSW Brown tree snakes can be kept on a class 1 licence, you are certainly lucky to have understanding parents, i think keeping simpler things like pythons and brown tree snakes is a good idea before moving on to elapids. You need to get written references from experienced elapid keepers here also to get the appropriate licence for them.

Hi Parko
That's a beaut specimen you have there.

Are there any external differences that you can use to distinguish between male & female?

Cheers

Hi buddha , I am not aware of any external difference between males and females, other than the females are generally much smaller I believe.

buddha i believe that on all snakes the spers on male are much larger, all u do i kinda bend it in the section of the spers and they should com out the difference shouldnt be hard to find
just get 2 snakes that u noe the sex of by probin or how ever u found it out and have a look

hey guys, spurs are only existant on pythons in australia so they wont help much with colubrids. There arnt really any external differences between the 2 sexes but as these snakes are one of the more easily stressed species they will often pop out hemipines...if it is a male that is...

awesome snake by the way. Looks silimar to one of mine. Cape york locality?
cyas,
Brendan.

ok brendan i thought that it was with all snakes well now i noe, is the tail thing with aussie pythons only aswell?

Im pretty sure females of most species have shorter tails then male snakes. I know Iv seen this in many elapid species.

ok, i kinda sumtimes go by the tail and spur sizes but if i really want to noe 4 sure probing is the way to go

Bring on the pics Bren!