>>Cool snake. Am I seeing "keeled" scales on that guy?
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>>Are you still keeping those, Toby?

Yes, I still have a mismatched pair - the male "Royal Diadem" in that pic and a female which is most likely S. d. cliffordi IMO. The guy who produced the female is a regular at Texas shows, so I am hoping he will produe some more so I can get a mate for her. Royals are not too hard to find, although getting a single female may be somewhat of a challenge.

They are still very small, but yes I believe they have somewhat keeled scales - it does look like it in the pic too. I will be able to tell better by feel when they are bigger. They are interesting snakes to handle - the male atriceps is very hissy, but not too bad to handle aside from that. The female "cliffordi" is much less willing to be handled, and bites a lot - along with hissing (they hiss through their nostrils BTW, with the mouth closed). She has become a problematic feeder - whereas the male atriceps is a great, un-picky feeder.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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