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Just wondering how the S. Ringneck is coming along.

I just wanted to know how long he was and how thick he is, like a dime size or bigger.

Would also like to see some more pictures of the guy.. Thanks

I have a pretty beefy 05, ill post pictures soon hopefully
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Cameron

is eating me out of house and home. I have provided a defrosted unscented pink every other day and she is eating. I mean she went into shed and turned blue-eyed, and I figured what the heck, and threw in a big old pink, and she ate it. Then 2 days later when she was all hiding and wanted to rest before her shed, I put in another jumbo pink next to her and she ate it. So far she has eaten a pink every other day and I think I only skipped 2 days feeding her. She poops like no tomorrow but they are healthy poops, no nasty smell and pretty solid considering she is eating something they perhaps don't normally eat. I gotta say that if I let this gal go, she will raid mice nests, but I am keeping her to just experiment to see how fast she will grow. I don't have her belly or girth measurements, but she was 14 inches long (I think) when I started this trial, so I will measure her a month later and deduct her weight on my taxes.

Dan

Yea, I was just as surprised to see her gobble down pinks when in full shed. She thinks she is a kingsnake and I am not going to tell her any different. She now lives a few feet away from the freezer where the pinks are stored.

Dan

Awesome man, 14 inches is a good size and the way your feeding him i wouldnt be surprized if you could beat the record. I think it is like 18.4 or something around there.

I think you should breed him.
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Cameron

18 inches unless you count the 20" a friend of mine found.

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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
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Did you do what ever you need to do to make it a official record, send it in somewhere?
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Cameron

Nope... The pictures don't show it, but the snake has a full ring, a yellow tail. It's a northern X southern intergrade, making the would-be record invalid.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
www.freewebs.com/badyear2005

Where was that snake found?? What criteria do you use to label it an intergrade? The yellow tail? The locale? All the above??
I spent some time breeding southerns and seldom got over 14".
Off hand, what is the record northern Mike?
Have you kept any ssp. from egg to egg?? Which seem easiest to you?
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Where was that snake found??

I actually don't recall. This was about 2 years ago, I lost touch with the person.

What criteria do you use to label it an intergrade? The yellow tail? The locale? All the above??

It was found in an intergrade zone.

I spent some time breeding southerns and seldom got over 14".
Off hand, what is the record northern Mike?

28". I've had 3 or 4 northerns close to that.

Have you kept any ssp. from egg to egg? Which seem easiest to you?

Never produced any F2s, didn't really have the time and motivation for that. But to me the southerns are easier to keep and breed than the northerns, due to the fact the northerns like salamanders too much, and most southerns will go right after fish or worms.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
www.freewebs.com/badyear2005

if it were fully stretched.

It wasn't stretched at all. Look at the waves in it's body, it wasn't stretched but could've been.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
www.freewebs.com/badyear2005

....i guess if anyone could do this...it'd hafta be you

What a hog! U should feed her from a trough & create a ringnecked python!

Lets see what the other posts have to show...