Beautful animals! I wish that racers were common here in Northern California. They seem very elusive, and I've seen only four, including DORS, in about ten years. I kept one; a neonate which feeds voraciously on crickets. Here we have the western species, Coluber mormon, but they are just as beautful as the Eastern Yellow bellied. I need to find another one and try to breed them.
Racers are highly underrated.
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Roy Blodgett
Green Man Herpetoculture
royreptile@yahoo.com

1.1 Drymarchon corais
1.1 Masticophis taeniatus taeniatus
0.0.1 Coluber mormon
1.1 Lampropeltis getula californiae (desert phase)
1.0 Boiga dendrophila dendrophila
1.1 Corytophanes cristatus
1.2 Varanus acanthurus brachyurus (Mt.Isa)
2.2 Pogona vitticeps (snow and red/gold)
1.0 Iguana iguana

“All men lie enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”- Herman Melville

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