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KevinM
at Fri May 14 12:49:06 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by KevinM ]
The speckled king is Lampropeltis getula holbrooki. The Brooks king is actual L.g.floridana with the now defunct florida king considered a naturally occuring integrade of the florida/brooks king and eastern king.
I would say most of the common kings would make decent pets. As others have pointed out, there can be good and bad individuals in all the common king subspecies pet-wise. I have captured speckled kings calm from day one, and some that were fiesty to the bitter end!! It appears the common kings from the far east, or far west, make the better pets, with the speckled kings, desert kings, and north american black kings being iffy in that respect.
Based on what you are looking for, I would suggest a ball python, or even something like a spotted or childrens python. Much slower moving than a king or milk in general.
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