I guess what some people may miss with Frank and totally dismiss, is that while most of us could take a king (any king) and raise it from egg to breeding, the tell is the end result. If you are happy that your king laid 5 eggs the first time and got healthy babies, you'd consider it a success. But if you had a first timer lay 13 very large eggs, and hatched out babies that were about 1/2 again as large, you may think, Wow!, some thing's different. I know this has happened with me, using his advice. I have also seen w.c. animals lay 3 large, well develoed eggs, so this is really neither here nor there. I will say this, kings can thrive and suffer both in the wild and under our care, the best we can do is to provide the things we can to the best of our ability, as we learn them, people now days have a much better chance of reproducing snakes than ever before, and much appreciation should be afforded to those who have provided this knowledge over the years. Whether you like someones' approach is mute, if they have valuable information and you utilize it, credit where credit is due. Thank you Joe Forks for letting a dufus hang out with you and learn some awesome stuff about west Texas snakes, thank you John Lassiter for introducing me to mexicana and showing me how to hatch eggs (one way), thank you Toby Brock for helping me understand our local and Asian rat snakes better, thanks to Nocturnal Tom for introducing me into the world of big breeding and awesome opportunities, and for letting me help you at the Daytona show, what an experience! Thanks to Frank for making me ask questions to get the answers,(teaching) and for being approachable off the forums. Hope to see you this year for sure! Thanks to Rainer for defending his opinions so valiently here, thanks to Carston "Zee" Zoldy for being a friend and showing me how it's done, letting me see the awesome Golden corn and being the ultimate host, thanks to Mark Kenderdine for some awesome kings and great conversations, thanks to Jerry Kruse for being Jerry Kruse and allowing us a peek at some truly awesome animals! Thanks to Doug Mong for being Johnny on the spot with answers on many forums, thanks to Thomas Davis for being himself, with passion and fury combined, keep it real Thomas! Most of all my Mom, who let me keep snakes when my Dad wouldn't, lol! All the people I have had the opportunity to meet through the forums and share some experiences and camaraderie with from HCU and SWCHR, you know who you are. And all the people on thse forums, whether newbie or old timer herper, hats off to you, 'cause without all of us, this would be a boring place, hell, you could just do cookie cutter stuff out of a book, (Frank's recipe connotation) and we'd all have similar results.

Point is, it's totally insane to think everyone here is going to act in a certain predictable way, so I guess you take the good with the bad, or don't click on to anyone you don't want to hear$h!t from, lol! But I gotta have my soap fix, and so do we all, or we wouldn't come back to the insanity day after day. Kinda creepy in a way, but whatever floats your boat. You know what burns my @$$? A flame about this high, heheheh!



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