Bull Snakes and Room Dynamics with Travis Johnson

Reptile Room Podcast

Meat & Potatoes:

• Tell us about your connection to Bull Snakes
• The care for Bull snakes (40 min +)
• All other fascinating info about bulls etc
• How do you feel they are best kept?
  • Average keeper vs. breeder (39:40 min)
  • Pet style or breeder efficient style
• What climate do they prefer? (40:45)
  How do you achieve that in consideration with the various other species you keep?
  • Ambient
  • 85 in peak summer (43:00)
  • 80 regularly
• Genetics & Locality (52:00)
  • Double hets (54:00)
  • Simple recessive exclusively (57:00) - Inbreeding
  • Wild type multi hets (58:00)
  • Locality phenotypes - color & size (59:00)
• Pros
  • Great pets
  • Setup nice in naturalistic enclosures
  • Humidity is not normally an issue
  • Don’t need a lot of heat
  • They are good eaters
  • Active during the morning and early evening (crepuscular)
  • Can be very handleable with patience
  • Awesome personalities
• Cons
  • Generally can be high strung/nervous
  • Too much heat can make that nervousness worse
  • They don’t like a lot of activity or movement (visual stimuli)
  • Poop! They can be messy
• Etc.
  • Wild type win (55:40)
  • Coachwhips (1:12:00)
  • Snake size and maximum sizes versus adult sizes
  • Freedom breeder tubs
• Breeding (1:30:00)
  • Stop feeding in November and then start brumation on Black Friday
  • Pull them out of brumation in 12 weeks - wait 5 days for 1st feeding
  • Keep feeding until the first shed out of brumation (a couple of weeks) - Pre-ovulation shed and then pair them up
  • 2nd shed after is the pre-lay shed
  • 10-14 days they lay eggs - they almost never use a nest box
    PRO TIP! Pull the water bowl before the 10th day
  • Pull eggs and place into egg boxes - 6qt tote with 2 air holes - perlite (drier than you would expect) - 80°
  • Hatch date is typically 56-60 days (depends on temp)
    • Too hot can cause deformities
• What's coming down the pipe for your bulls and the rest of your projects?
  • Prove out poss hets
  • Stillwater Hypo Patternless het Miami Axanthic poss het albino x Trumbower Hibino (Hypo Albino) het Patternless and Bullum Axanthic !!!
  • Whitesided, albino, patternless, hypos, axanthics
• What do you see for the future of bull snakes and do you think more people should be keeping them?
  • The future is bright for bullsnakes! More morphs...more localities
  • Plan ahead and contact bullsnakes breeders now! Don’t wait!
  • Their popularity is on the rise!

Closing comments/wrapping up/ throwing out contact info and the season's production for people to watch out for

Carpet Fest 2020 - Facebook Group Link Here

Final remarks. plugging for the next episode. etc.

Find Travis Here:
Living Legless Reptile Website
LLR on Facebook

LLR on Instagram

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