Hi, i write from Italy, my name is Daniele DAgostino. I often read this forum and find it very interesting. I hope to collaborate in the development of our passion and to exchange views on our scaled friends
what about me?
i began to get familiar with reptiles at the age of 12, thanks to my friendship with a local breeder who already had been working in this field since70s and was the founder of an herpetology partnership in Salento of which i became a member a short time later.
The first reptile i approached was a local one, and since then, the curiosity and the desire of discovery led me to exotic species, with a particular interest in colors and genetic properties of various species, including Asian Colubrids and boids.
At the age of 18, when internet was still unknown, i got the first Python regius reproduction, and then i was able to reproduce more complex species, as Gonyosoma, Zamenis situla and others.
My passion for photography and art have an important role in a "scaled" point of view by combining the beauty of nature with my artistic expressiveness through reptiles, specifically snakes. The species which always have captured my attention are from my territory, Salento, as the passion for one of the most beautiful colubrids in the world cannot miss in my herpetological history: the Z. situla. Asian species as moellendorffi, mandarinus, Rhynchophys, Clelia clelia and others are my favorite breeded ones and i also launched a project with the uncommon Drymarchon Couperi, with several European bloodlines in order to select particular red specimens especially as a result of selections which are not blood-related. You can see my snakes and my pics in my album on this forum and in my web site if you like or i fb (Fine herp).
The FineHerp project represents the beginning of a long way and the evolution of a passion. The idea to make a website and to write in a foreign forum (even if i haven't a good english) came from the need to interact through one of the most advanced means of communication: the network.
A great CIAO,
Dag
Sujet: hi from Italy 
Ven 23 Mar 2012 - 15:56
