LOL!!! precisely!....that's why I didn't really want to get involved.....the post went on for quite a while without any mention of where the breeding stock came from!



Both of you guys had some valid points,.....in central Florida when I go fishing with my buddy, I've spent more time grabbing Nerodia than fishing!!....I see them swimming from a distance, then run around the lake to go were I think they will be by the time I get there. Then just wait motionless to wait for them to swim right up to me at the waters edge......then BAM!! every time.



Also, many of them have a myriad of color and pattern differences in the same lake!.....they intergrade so freely it's rediculous........fasciata/pictiventris, and anywhere thereof, they are all just watersnakes to me.....although pictiventris does quite literally mean "painted/pictured belly!!LOL



Take care guys!



~Doug



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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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