DiscoverAnimals at Home Network215: Red Boas & Other Amazing Ball Python Alternatives | Golden Coast Exotics - AAH
215: Red Boas & Other Amazing Ball Python Alternatives | Golden Coast Exotics - AAH

215: Red Boas & Other Amazing Ball Python Alternatives | Golden Coast Exotics - AAH

Update: 2024-11-02
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Chad Steffen of Golden Coast Exotics discusses his reptile keeping and breeding hobby with a variety of very interesting and rarer snake species, as well as his passion in breeding high-quality, healthy snakes. He shares details of how he first got started in the reptile keeping hobby, starting in keeping Eastern Indigo Snakes, and the enrichment that he provides those species. Chad highlights the other species that he keeps such as bearded dragons, species of tree boas, Dominican Red Boas, Royal Snakes, and more, diving into the behaviors, diets, and breeding of each. He also discusses the interest in these kind of “left-of-center” species in comparison to the Ball python breeding obsession in the last fifteen years, saying that the diversity of the species we keep in the reptile hobby makes it all so much more fun and interesting. Chad also discusses his adventures in herping in Southern California, as well as aspects of loving the mundane chores involved in reptile keeping.



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Golden Coast Exotics Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goldencoastexotics/?hl=en


Golden Coast Exotics Morph Market: https://www.morphmarket.com/stores/goldencoastexotics/


Golden Coast Exotics YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEM0FGo4IQyTDQ91doyZCNQ



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WE DISCUSS:


0:00 Introducing Chad Steffen - Golden Coast Exotics


2:00 Zoo Med Labs


2:25 Welcome Chad + His Start in Reptile Keeping and Breeding


13:18 Getting into Eastern Indigos


15:03 Magic Mind Shot


16:58 Eastern Indigo Enclosures + Enrichment


20:44 Outdoor Bearded Dragon Enclosures + Feeding


24:06 Chad’s Collection Over the Years


27:30 Species of Tree Boa, Sanzinia + Breeding


35:18 Zoo Med Tortoise Diet


36:24 Tree Boa Behaviors and Size


38:27 Diversity in Snake Species + Ball Python Market Crash


46:00 Dominican Red Boas - Diets, Breeding + Colors


57:44 Boa Enclosures + Hides


59:04 Royal Snakes - Behavior, Breeding + Diets


1:05:20 Other Left-of-Center Species


1:08:51 Number of Adult Species + Drive to Keep Snakes


1:11:23 Herping in California


1:14:03 Loving the Process of Keeping Reptiles


1:18:15 Future Species


1:20:48 Closing Thoughts



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215: Red Boas & Other Amazing Ball Python Alternatives | Golden Coast Exotics - AAH

215: Red Boas & Other Amazing Ball Python Alternatives | Golden Coast Exotics - AAH

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