Macrovipera schweizeri

[Vipernhunter]

Here one rarely spezie of a red macro viper. This about 90 cm long viper lives on small islands in Greece. Their poison is strong. Biotope is drying and stony. Hot summers and mild winters there are there.

[gaboon69]

I like the red and grey ones.
I believe C. Radspieler bred these on more than one occasion.
Red and grey parents should produce red babies.
Nice photos.

[Vipernhunter]

I have only red adults. The babies from my pair were 50% grey. Two of the babies have an beautifull orange colour. The grandfahter from all red M.schweizeri comes from Clemens Radspieler
Here some pictures from the nice babies. If they comes out of egg, the colour is not so beautifull. But in time the colour will be nicer.

[gaboon69]

Fantastic. A big congrats with the offspring. In many ways they remind me of Bitis atropos (unicolor). When were these babies bred if you dont mind me asking?

[Bushviper]

Wow pretty snakes. I was under the impression they were busy going extinct? Are the natural populations still strong?

[Vipernhunter]

The macrovipera schweizeri live in small islands. But the population is ok and friends from me found in spring any exemplares. But only grey. The red colour is very rare in nature. But in terrarium it is not problem to breed red, orange colours.

[steve]

Great photo's.
And a very nice species.
Thanks for sharing them.
Cheers

[Vipernhunter]

Thank you. But the photo´s are not so good because I can put only pictures with 97 picels. But a lot of pictures have more thant 97 picels. How can I put pictures with bigger picels?
Greetings

[Bushviper]

Vipernhunter if you reduce the picture to 600 x 600 pixels at 72 Dots Per Inch then they come out fine on the webpages.

[armata]

Mining operations and roadkills are the big problem on Milos, plus illegal collecting.

Claes Andren and Goran Nilson did an interesting study a few years back including radio tracking. This species is also dependant on seasonal bird migration; and their reproductive cycle is dependant on how good the bird migration is.
They are specialised bird ambush predators, similar to Echis coloratus and Gloydius shedaoensis.