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Monster Caudalis

Postby vuduman » Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:11 pm

Hi.I just thought I'd share a picture of one of my monster Caudalis.I measured her at 60cm.


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And I decided to do a painting of her too :)
Dimentions are 60cm by 84cm,
Oil on canvas.
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby Marcel2992 » Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:35 pm

Beautifull man!! Love the painting aswell!
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby mgiddings » Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:38 pm

So this is the one :) Really is a monster! Nice painting as well man. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby nvlooi » Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:40 pm

Stunning paint

@Vuduman - Is that a NC locality caudalis?
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby Eyelash » Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:18 pm

Haha...you should post the pic of your girl next to my old boy...Then you guy's would really check how huge she is !
Great painting bud !!!And very nice snake !
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby nvlooi » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:26 pm

nvlooi wrote:Stunning paint

@Vuduman - Is that a NC locality caudalis?
ing!!!


Sorry don't know what happend to this post! :-?

Stunning painting!!!

@Vuduman - Is that a NC locality caudalis?
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby reptiles r me » Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:21 pm

Wow! thats a stunner and the painting is even beter
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby vuduman » Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:38 pm

Thanks guys.Here is a picture(sorry about the quality,cell phone pic)of an adult male B. caudalis,just outside Springbok locality.
And the female that dwarfs him.He is about 35cm.

@nflooi:I'm not 100% sure of the locality of the female.She has the blue/grey markings on the head of an Namakwa caudalis, but its the first one with such bright and broad pure white markings in between the saddles that I've seen-if its from there.

Maybe some experts in the Caudalis field will post their thoughts on that :).The previous owner has had her for about 3 years before me.

She is very docile for a horned adder. Eats half grown mice and drinks out of a water bowl(which is quite strange for them from that locality).

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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby gaboon69 » Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:53 pm

is that not record length ? I have a friend who has a moulding of the record animal and it too was around 0.6 m and also from the N.C.
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby vuduman » Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:05 pm

Awesome!I measured it with that measuringsoftware that someone posted a link of(twice and with 2photographs).I have seen a bigger Limpopo Caudalis before many years ago in someones garadge between all his brown housesnakes and bushsnakes,but obviousely never recorded it.That one was almost completely brown with a few grey markings,and mutch bigger than mine even!However:The one in the painting is even BIGGER! :)
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby Rob » Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:55 pm

Shame such a cute little thing ;) Nice one vuduman, I hope she produces many babies.

60cm while giant, is not unheard of. Although to be honest this is the first 2 footer from the NC I've heard of. The others also came from Limpopo as Ferdo also says.

Locality is certainly NC, which town? Who knows? I don't believe you can narrow it down any closer by going solely on colour, although I know some will disagree.
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby eyelash viper » Sun Jun 06, 2010 3:34 am

Very nice animal .
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby reptiles r me » Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:18 am

shame i feel sorry for the male lol
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby Superciliaris » Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:30 pm

Here's an adult breeding male cornuta on top an also mutant size female at 68cm
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Re: Monster Caudalis

Postby nvlooi » Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:47 pm

These things are massive!! Stunning specimens.
Do you people feed them on creatine and protein diet, with treadmill and rowing machine excercise in the morning and weigth lifting at noon... LOL
I've posted a pic a NC B. caudalis I found that was monster as well (it has been posted in another topic).
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