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
>>-----
>>Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
>>Hopkins Holesale Herps
>>Hopfam1@aol.com

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• Pictures of some of my finds on my road cruising trip........ - Hoppy, Wed Jun 1 18:38:57 2005
• Some Of the Corns....... - Hoppy, Wed Jun 1 18:42:51 2005
• Very nice Hoppy and.............. - LeeBarrie, Wed Jun 1 22:48:14 2005
• Hate to break it to you... - foxturtle, Thu Jun 2 00:29:17 2005
• Wow, that is a beatiful King...... - Hoppy, Thu Jun 2 09:46:21 2005
• DANG!!! after 33 years the hunt continues LOL...more - Hoppy, Thu Jun 2 09:44:06 2005
• RE: DANG!!! after 33 years the hunt continues LOL...more - Jeff Clark, Thu Jun 2 15:55:58 2005
• OT PICs........... - Jeff Clark, Thu Jun 2 16:17:24 2005
• glad to see they are doing something trying to help protect them! np - AbsoluteApril, Thu Jun 2 16:24:33 2005
• Well, even if it isn't the Scarlet King you've been searching for... - Amanda_Burke, Thu Jun 2 16:35:10 2005
• Hoppy, My Favorite Kings - boidmorphs, Fri Jun 3 07:58:58 2005
• that is soooo cool! - AbsoluteApril, Thu Jun 2 15:48:45 2005