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Sasheena
at Fri Jun 13 22:54:25 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sasheena ]
Glad you liked the picture. That picture is Kinkee, the one with the two severe kinks in its spine. (broken probably). I'll post a couple of other pics. They are hard to photograph as they are very high strung. At the next "feeding frenzy" I'll have the camera out... they're so cool too, because they slither along the ground, the upper half to full inch of their length off the ground, looking like tiny little cobras, chasing the crickets until they nab them. The first time I had all seven of the snakes in the same container, they went berserk. The two banded new ones hadn't eaten in some time and they just went nutso! One nabbed the red ground snake, and wouldn't let go until I separated them, the other banded snake went to grab a cricket and got an old shed I hadn't removed, I had to pry it out of its mouth before it tried to swallow it. But mostly they just chase the crickets like mad.
>>WOW! Very cool! I really like the ground snakes. I wish I could get out to AZ to find some but I know the laws protect them.
Yes, the laws do protect them. Bag limit is 20 per day or in the aggregate. So technically, I guess, hubby and I could have 40 between us, or 100 if you count all the kids too. But seven is a good number.
>>Would be nice if you could post some of the feeding frenzy on here someday. I for one would love to see more pics!
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>>Hey, they don't have a forum here for them. Do they?
Nope, no forum, I have spoken on this forum about them and also on the field collecting forum. they are the only WC snakes I own. I have been lucky though, as the folks on this forum who don't care don't read, and don't complain. They're interesting little snakes!
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~Sasheena
Ground Snakes
Kit, Kaboodle, Tantilla, Tantillas, Lightning, Kinkee, Maple
JCP
Dreamer
Rosy
Castle
Kings
Licorice, Bishop, Queenie, Jester, Tigris, Euphrates
Pandora, Phantom
Lady
Corns
Aphrodite, Athena, Hermes
Tiger
Amulet
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RE: Ground Snakes - Sasheena, Fri Jun 13 22:54:25 2003