Actually there are several folks who have bred Croc Monitors in the private sector. Stan Chiras for one bred them a few years consistently so your statement "no one breeds croc monitors" is not true. Stan got out of them because of the enormous amount of space and money that was spent to do this. Also he told me that the dangerous nature of them also was a factor in his decision to get rid of them. A good friend of mine in the Dallas Zoo had HIS NOSE BITTEN OFF BY AN ADULT CROC MONITOR in the 1970's. Again no harm was meant but when someone makes opening statements like these it's clear you are uninformed about this subject. By the way I indentified your "mystery" snake. If you had photographed the underside of the tail below the cloaca I could have told you which genus and species specifically but from the dorsum they are identical in looks. As the Clelia grows it goes thru an octogenetic color change to jet black with a white belly. The blurry pic is hard to tell but if it were like the good pic that's what it was..NO MYSTERY HERE...
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Tom Crutchfield

www.tomcrutchfield.com

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