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Hi all,

This is my first attempt at posting a photo. This is a pure eastern kingsnake. She is a 3 year old, second generation c.b. from animals originally collected by Kevin Enge. The founder male is from Statenville Ga. and the founder female is from Tifton Ga. The parents of this female, a very aberrant male sibling, and the founder animals can be viewed in the Ga. section of Keith Hillson's site. Thanks for looking!

Will Still

picking up lower jaw off floor- wow! thats the best thick chained eastern king ive seen. you are lucky. great pic, thanks for sharing and giving my computer a new background!

Ha!

Thanks for the kind words. I feel very lucky to have this line in my care. Some specimens remain absolutely saturated with orange into adulthood. The original (F1) captives still produce some crazy babies every year!

Will

Ha!

Thanks for the kind words. I feel very lucky to have this line in my care. Some specimens remain absolutely saturated with orange into adulthood. The original (F1) captives still produce some crazy babies every year!

Will

those south GA animals (especially Kevin's Statenville snakes) are stunning and put those skinny banded NJ and MD easterns to shame, IMO.

Wow, nice snake!
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Chris Harrison

Hi Chris,

I agree, some of the wide banded southern specimens I have seen rival the best northen type animals. One of my goals is to line breed for wide-banded, or aberrant, orange and black specimens in order to contrast the classic northern types.

However, I gotta be honest, I feel that snakes like Keith's Monmouth Co. NJ monster, those that are indigo black with a thin, high white chain pattern are the archetype for the sub-species. Those are the classic easterns that I scanned all of the local pet shops for back in childhood. I finally have some, now I just have raise the little buggers! Thanks, later.

Will

Yeap Georgia has some monster eastern kingsnakes. I saw one that was almost 6 1/2 ft once around an old shed. Too bad thought I can't have them here in Georgia. We have some crazy laws here we can have a native venomous without a permit but we can't have a native non venomous. We have some really messed up laws here cuz I have always wanted an eastern king.

That's a great looking King Will. I must say I really like the wide banded Easterns also. I have a question for you. What became of this Eastern you have posted on Keith Hillson's website?

And was this one really from a true Georgia locality pair? If so, it looks very similar to what people would call a "goini" found in the Apalachicola region of Florida. Interesting to see.

Sean

Hi Sean,

Yes, that exceptionally wide banded eastern is a sibling to the female I posted yesrterday. He is from the same Statenville Ga x Tifton Ga. pair that is pictured immediately to his left on Keith's site. As you have seen, the parents are very typical Georgia animals, yet with every clutch, one or two very orange and/or aberrant animals hatch out. This year is no exception, the clutch emerged from their eggs this weekend and while most are very typical black and yellow/creme with orange highlights, I do have one or two wide-banded florescent knockouts.

"Frank the Tank" is an awesome snake! He is growing very rapidly due to a seemingly unquenchable appetite. Without fail, every time I open his cage he flies out, mouth open, demanding food. His tail tip is scarred from him chasing and trying to consume the snake that keeps following him (himself of course). I have come running, on more than one occasion, to a violent thrashing sound in the snake room only to find this jacka$$ trying to swallow his own tail. In 26 years of snake keeping I have never seen that behavior. "The Tank" is due to shed today, I'll post new pics as soon as he does. Later.

Will