Jim,

...Of course we were not gonna give you a hard time about that Scarlet snake. I was going to ask you what color it's belly is? They are really tough to get eating in captivity. I tried several times with them and finally got one of them to drink egg white from a chicken egg. I would keep it without water for several days to make sure it got thirsty and then offer egg white in a small bowl and it would drink that. AFAIK Scarlet Snakes have never been successfully captive bred. I did hatch 5 eggs from a WC gravid one once. I will keep my eyes open for a Scarlet King for you next time I am down in Florida. I know where to catch a bunch of them here in GA but they are protected. The weather systems that came through the south got lots of snakes moving in this area. I have seen several DOR snakes and live Black Racers, Copperheads, Watersnakes and Garters out and moving. I got some PICs of a medium large Coachwhip that was out hunting around some Gopher Tortoise burrows. He did not like me messing with him and showed typical pissed off Coachwhip behaviour and attacked when I blocked his escape. He finally went down a Tortoise burrow to get away from me. I was hoping for an Indigo sighting as I have seen their shed skins around the same Tortoise colony.

Jeff



>>Well, I guess I am a bit better with my boas then I am with my Kings (or should I say my scarlet Snakes!)

>>I have collected a scarlet snake in the wild before but I had no idea that they got this big! this sucker is 2' long which is why I was pretty sure it was a large scarlet King LOL.

>>Oh well my 33years long hunt for a wild Scarlet King goes on LOL.

>>Thanks to everyone who sent the e-mails or posts about the misidentifacation. 17 emails about and not a nasty on in the group, truly a great group of people.. I think I will keep this guy and feed him some of the infertile corn snake eggs and see how he does.

>>Thanks again

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>>Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"

>>Hopkins Holesale Herps

>>Hopfam1@aol.com

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