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nategodin
at Wed Dec 12 18:40:22 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nategodin ]
Hello,
Black milks are great snakes... if you're concerned about how dark your hatchling will get, probably the best you can do is examine (or get pictures of) the parents in bright, preferably natural light. Most adults I've seen retain a few dark grey bands across the ventral "neck" area, but it's only really evident under bright light.
San Antonio Zoo stock black milks are related to their record-holding 7'2" specimen. My '02 male is San Antonio Zoo stock, and is about 6'2". If you intend to breed them, you might want to consider picking up a completely unrelated mate... my female is from Mark Bell stock. They're very easy to breed.
Black milks start out as very tractable hatchlings (a bit flighty, but don't bite or musk) and mature into incredibly calm adults. Mine quite gracefully tolerate being handled by various people at shows for 7-8 hours at a time.
Nate
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