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This is the first tri color we have seen, on the property. Very pretty hey? enjoy

So where are you located? That is a coral snake, right?
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I like tri colors to bad corals are venemous as I find them great looking tri colors.
That one is particularly nice.

That's as cool as it gets Frank. Beautiful coral. Have you kept them and/or bred them before?
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Sweet, I love AZ corals. You seeing regal ringnecks yet?
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Mike
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What is sorta funny is, corals are suppose to favorite wet and humid conditions. But odd as it is, we are in an extreme drought and I have seen more corals lately. Not alot by the way, but not uncommon.

I saw a few last year. But its so dry out, I cannot stand to go out much this year, as its just horrible. Places where ringnecks occur often have trees and they are dying. Even giant oaks. They are dying in number. Locally, there is mass die offs of all sorts of cactus. Like limberbust, in many areas around here they are dead and gone. Even prickly pear, have died off over 50%. Cheers,

Might the Corals be out in areas where they arent normally becuase it is so dry ? Maybe near houses its more damp with leaky spigots and spinklers etc... ? Looks like its in pretty good shape though.

Keith
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Posted by: Keith Hillson at Fri May 19 08:42:57 2006 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

Might the Corals be out in areas where they arent normally becuase it is so dry ? Maybe near houses its more damp with leaky spigots and spinklers etc... ? Looks like its in pretty good shape though.

Keith

I think you hit it right on the head . We have a coral that lives under a shed which is shaded in the yard and when its very hot here and doesnt rain which is rare like last week we see it. However I have only seen him at night or early am never in sun like that.
When weather is hot but rain I never see him. I have only seen him 3 times but all those times it was very dry/hot .
So far he has avoided my neighbors two mini English bullterriers which are pro snake and cat killers .

Just not this nail. The corals I have found were mostly in the desert and not around any water or wet areas. In fact, in the dryest areas. The one I just found on my property was also as far from water, facets, etc, as you could get. It was in the dryest area of my property.

I do have a small stream and pond(artificial) and that may indeed attract some snakes, althought I rarely find any snakes near that area. As opposed to commonly finding snakes all over the rest of the property. The coral was not near enough to make a case. Of course If the coral was around the green area, we very well could have made that assumption. It wasn't.

So in the cases I mentioned, artificial water, moist areas, etc, did not come into play.

Consider, the assumption or possibility does not appear to be accurate in any way. Of course anything is possible. Cheers

Nice snake Frank.I am always envious of what you see right around the corner.

Question for you if you don't mind. Do you think your weather is so unusual that global warming is what's going on? Or do you think it's like some folks say that there are weather patterns that cycle over large periods of time. I'm not a scientist just a regular cage cleaner like everyone else and I hear both sides from folks much smarter than me and don't really know what to think. Not to make you feel old, but you've been around long enough with watching snake stuff to have some unbiased observations. Just curious, not trying to start a combative thread for warming or against.
Thanks,
bob

Well, heck if I know. hahahahahahaha, its the fricken desert, and as such, it must have had some very dry periods or there would be trees all over, instead of cactus.

I kinda think man is a little self centered, you know, its all about us. I was taught that there have been huge variations in climate. You know, ice ages, glaciers and such, and back and forth, and back and forth. Thats kinda why there are different species and pathways of migration to reinfect previous frozen land. Things like cobble drifts deposited by frozen rivers and such. There must have been global cooling, followed by global warming, then global cooling again.

It the pattern continues, the hotter it gets, the more water will unfreeze, then more water vapor in the air, more rain, then global plant growth, then global cooling. hahahahahaha you get the rest.

Even since this ball we are on, got knocked out of kilter(off axis), we are a ball out of balance(seasons) until it rebalances(liquids do that) we will flucuate forth and back. hahahahahaha how silly is that. Cheers

Thatis a beautiful coral! You are in Ariz. right?

I have heard from a couple of sources that the drought in South Florida has the corals on the move en masse. I always pusued them during periods of heavy rains..guess that might explain my lack of sucess. Great photo, that's a very healthy looking Mic.

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