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mattbrock
at Wed Oct 26 10:07:09 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mattbrock ]
That is very interesting.
A friend of mine invited me down to Acadia to visit his friend, who ran a crayfish farm down there. All he talked about was the high numbers of snakes he saw on a daily basis, and me being a sucker for LA specks decided to try to track down a few down there. We spent all day hunting on clear April day and ended up capturing 48 snakes. 5 of which were holbrooki. One large male, yound adult female, and three juveniles. We decided to bring all of them home and see which ones we wanted to keep, then we would later return to release the "culls".
Well, the young female produced 12 fertile eggs, all of whcih hatched. They were spectacular offspring. Three of them have flaming orange/red bellies that even sweep up the lateral sides.
Some of them are in between, and then you have the normal yellow babies.
We still have the majority of them, but several of them have been sent to friends.
I find it quite interesting that you say you have had trouble getting them to eat scented pinks. We have too! Out of the 12, only two of them are eating scented pinks now. The rest are still eating live ground skinks. I am soon to try live scented pinks, as movement seems to start a feeding respnse in them.
I'll try to post some new pics ASAP of the ones I kept.
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RE: Speckleds,anyone? - mattbrock, Wed Oct 26 10:07:09 2005