Who are we?

  • Rob Olivier
    (rob@ratelslangen.nl)

    Since my early childhood (I was born in 1959, The Hague, the Netherlands) I have had a strong interest in animals and nature. All kind of animals I have been studying in the field or I have kept them at home, birds and reptiles especially. The first reptiles entered in my life when I was about eight years old, a pair of Red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans). At the age of fourteen I bought my first snake, a Brown snake (Storeria dekayi). After that I was lost into snakes and I have kept several different kinds of them.

    My main interest however went to the European vipers and rattlesnakes. It took until 1987 before I bought my first venomous snakes, a pair of Asp vipers (Vipera aspis francisciredi) and a pair of Dusky pygmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri ).

    Nowadays I am keeping almost only rattlesnakes, especially from the viridis/oreganus-complex and the molossus-complex.

    I hope you will have a good time at our website!

    Rob.
  • Jeremie Tai-A-Pin
    (jeremie@ratelslangen.nl)

    Born in the year of the dragon (1976) I've always been fascinated by the little creepy crawlies and scaly animals. As a kid always drawing spiders, lizards and snakes especially cobras and rattlesnakes. I'd used to run around catching everything putting them in jars and caring for them. I'd some successes, lots of spiderlings crawling in my bedroom, My mother really loved it ... NOT!, but most at that time never made it :-( Guess I know better now ...

    After some on and off periods of keeping lizards, snakes and amphibians. I started again in 1996 first with lizards (geckos, agamas, dragons) but I wanted snakes so I got them too. In 1999 I'd had no more lizards and only snakes, mainly corns, kings, boas. Throughout the years I got to know more and more people of which some had venomous snakes. Still remember my first encounter with a rattlesnake in someones home (an albino Crotalus atrox). I was hooked from the get go ... So I started learning more about them until I finally got my first rattlesnakes, Crotalus cerastes cercobombus in 2002. Now I live on the vibe of my rattles :-)

    Enjoy our site

    Be safe, be careful

    Greetings Jeremie
Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake - Crotalus willardi willardi - © John M. Slone
Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake  -  Crotalus willardi willardi   -  © John M. Slone

Our rattlesnake collection

  • 1.1 Crotalus adamanteus - Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake - locality unknown - 100% het for albino
  • 0.1 Crotalus adamanteus - Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake - locality unknown - possible het for albino
  • 1.2 Crotalus adamanteus - Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake - locality unknown - albino
  • 1.2 Crotalus cerastes cercobombus - Sonoran Desert sidewinder - locality unknown
  • 1.2 Crotalus cerberus - Arizona black rattlesnake - Redington road, Catalina Mountains, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
  • 2.1 Crotalus cerberus - Arizona black rattlesnake - Rincon Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
  • 1.1 Crotalus durissus terrificus - South American rattlesnake - Gran Chaco, Paraguay
  • 2.4 Crotalus durissus unicolor - Aruba Island rattlesnake - Aruba
  • 2.3 Crotalus enyo furvus - Rosario rattlesnake - Baja California del Norte, Mexico
  • 1.1 Crotalus mitchellii mitchellii - San Lucan speckled rattlesnake - Cabo San Lucas, Baja California del Sur, Mexico
  • 1.3 Crotalus mitchellii pyrrhus - Southwestern Lucan speckled rattlesnake - extreme white, locality withheld on request
  • 1.1 Crotalus molossus molossus - Northern black-tailed rattlesnake - Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
  • 1.1 Crotalus molossus molossus - Northern black-tailed rattlesnake - Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, Texas, USA
  • 1.1 Crotalus molossus molossus - Northern black-tailed rattlesnake - Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
  • 1.1 Crotalus molossus nigrescens - Mexican black-tailed rattlesnake - Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico
  • 2.2 Crotalus molossus oaxacus - Oaxacan black-tailed rattlesnake - Sierra de Cuatro Venados, Oaxaca, Mexico
  • 1.1 Crotalus oreganus abyssus - Grand Canyon rattlesnake - Paria Canyon, Kane County, Utah, USA
  • 5.3 Crotalus oreganus helleri - Southern Pacific rattlesnake - Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California del Norte, Mexico
  • 3.2 Crotalus oreganus lutosus - Great Basin rattlesnake - Washoe County, Nevada, USA
  • 1.3 Crotalus oreganus oreganus - Northern Pacific rattlesnake - USA/Canadian border, Washington State, USA
  • 1.1 Crotalus scutulatus salvini - Huamatlan rattlesnake - locality unknown
  • 4.1 Crotalus stephensi - Panamint rattlesnake - Mount Charleston, Clark County, Nevada, USA
  • 4.2 Crotalus tortugensis - Tortuga Island diamond rattlesnake - Isla Tortuga, Baja California del Sur, Mexico
  • 1.1 Crotalus viridis - Prairie rattlesnake - Coconino County, Arizona, USA
  • 1.2 Crotalus viridis - Prairie rattlesnake - Meteor Crater road, Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
  • 1.1 Crotalus viridis - Prairie rattlesnake - Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
  • 3.0 Sistrurus miliarius barbouri - Dusky Pigmy rattlesnake - locality unknown