I love Lampropeltis. I have kept a tiny collection of them for many years now, with my oldest snakes being a 11 year old L.t.annulata and an '02 L.pyromelana. My collection, with an exception of a gifted locality zonata, locality rubber boa and a locality pyro, pretty much did not grow. I realized I never had a "real" king--getula. Well, now I do! I was lucky enough be generously gifted two locality specific 2011 L.getula californiae from thier nothern range of the Santa Cruz mountains (Santa clara county). I LOVE how black and white the coloration of the snakes are and I really dig how dark the details of the faces are as well.

Being more of a field herper then hobbyist, nothing really beats locality specific animals!

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• Finally getting into the getula game... - Zach_MexMilk, Mon Jan 30 01:23:16 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - DISCERN, Mon Jan 30 01:31:04 2012
• Thanks! np - Zach_MexMilk, Mon Jan 30 21:56:41 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - rosspadilla, Mon Jan 30 06:03:46 2012
• thanks Ross np - Zach_MexMilk, Mon Jan 30 22:00:00 2012
• Very nice! - GerardS, Mon Jan 30 07:18:50 2012
• RE: Very nice! - Zach_MexMilk, Mon Jan 30 11:46:48 2012
• RE: Very nice! - GerardS, Mon Jan 30 11:54:48 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - joecop, Mon Jan 30 15:21:57 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - Zach_MexMilk, Mon Jan 30 22:01:42 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - DMong, Mon Jan 30 19:37:45 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - Zach_MexMilk, Mon Jan 30 22:03:08 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - tspuckler, Tue Jan 31 17:17:46 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - DMong, Tue Jan 31 17:27:55 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - rosspadilla, Tue Jan 31 23:29:46 2012
• a broad getula coloration question - rtdunham, Wed Feb 1 16:52:45 2012
• RE: a broad getula coloration question - tspuckler, Wed Feb 1 17:42:22 2012
• RE: a broad getula coloration question - Zach_MexMilk, Wed Feb 1 23:50:11 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - Bluerosy, Wed Feb 1 13:25:48 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - rosspadilla, Wed Feb 1 14:27:27 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - Bluerosy, Wed Feb 1 15:55:10 2012
• haha np - rosspadilla, Wed Feb 1 15:58:04 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - rtdunham, Wed Feb 1 16:42:17 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - GerardS, Wed Feb 1 17:02:14 2012
• RE: Finally getting into the getula game... - rosspadilla, Wed Feb 1 17:50:00 2012