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RE: Milk snake size scale

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Posted by: DMong at Sat Dec 24 00:24:53 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

Yes, out of the 25 different milksnake subspecies (26 if you include the Coastal Plains milksnake (L.t.temporalis), the Pueblan milks are a fairly small/moderately-sized subspecies of milksnake. But as TSpuckler already mentioned, the Latin and South Ameican milks attain the largest size without question. Those being the Andean milksnake, Black milksnake, Ecuadoran milksnake, Honduran milksnake, Atlantic Central American milksnake, Guatemalan milksnake, etc....with Blanchard's milksnake being the smallest of the Latin forms.

Also as previously mentioned, many of the N. American subspecies, such as the Scarlet kingsnake (L.t.elapsoides), Red milksnake, Central Plains milksnake, Utah milksnake, Pale milksnake, Louisiana milksnake being a much smaller types. The Scarlet king being the smallest overall, but many of the N. American hatchlings are extremely small as youngsters and can be rather difficult to get feeding for most novices, and even many well-seasoned keepers alike.

I didn't include all the snakes belonging to either large or small category, and some of those I did include are virtually impossible to obtain in the hobby anyway, so don't expect to be able to find many of them. I just included them for sake of their size comparisons.


Here is a tiny Scarlet king hatchling for example......



and a large 5 1/2 plus foot ultra-light hypo Honduran milksnake....



~Doug
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