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I've been wanting to get some good pics of these guys for longer than I care to admit....my favorite snakes. Female is just over six feet and male just under. Have another female from them thats hitting five and a half feet now.

Tang,
WOW- SMOKIN' beautiful snakes!

Absolutely gorgeous!

//Todd

those are frickin sweet. i have two the females almost five and the males about 4.5 theyre 03s. do you have any males for sale mines the ruddest pit i've ever seen and not that black at all.Also about when do they stop growing i'm hoping mine get bigger?

My female grew 24 inches in one year! And I was not powerfeeding her! Just one or two medium sized rats per week. She must have been about 2 years old at the start of that. Both my adults have put a little more girth on this summer although they don't seem to be gaining any length at this point. My male has always been a picky eater but eating very well this summer.

I was hoping to hatch out a clutch of 8 eggs this summer but they all turned bad....as far as I could tell there was no embryos in them. I did brumate them and they have produced in the past.
I still haven't perfected the incubation process and I've moved a couple times in the last 4 years right in the middle of it. Oh well..I do still have one beautiful '03 as I mentioned and sold a couple babies last year.

Mine are all dogtame...I use them in demos all the time. The male however when I first got him (EBVs) was absolutely the meanest snake I've ever come across in 40 years of handling ....I was calling him Satan for a few weeks and seriously thinking of returning him to EBV. Took about 2 months to calm him down and now I have no hesitation letting kids handle him..he's a total sweetheart....I'm actually now in the process of publishing a ebook on tips to tame colubrids down. Good luck with yours!
They are awesome creatures....here's a pic of my young hypo bull at a demo....

Forget the snake.....I want to see more pics of the girl. lol. J/K. You have some beautiful snakes! Most of the ones I've seen aren't really jet black like yours. Thanks for the pics.
Ken

Those animals are so dark! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Ginter....I appreciate a response from one of the truly great pituophis masters on this forum...I've been inspired by your posts for years now along with John Cherry's and many others. I'm strictly an amateur with good taste in reptiles. I keep about 8 snakes or so and a bluetongue. My pines are pretty black....the big female's anterior is jet black and the male and my younger female have a little white flecking on the chin. In bright sunlight, of course, you can see a little brown patterning underneath and some brown tones on the face.

I'll share one quick story with you. As you know pits are pretty alert curious animals and if you take them outside they will often raise their heads up about 5 inches and check things out around them. (I still want to get a pic of one of them yawning!) Well, I used to take em out on a big lawn and play with a couple of the neighbors cats while I watched them crawl around a bit. One of the cats was a skinny little black part Siamese. She started to inspect my 6 foot male one day and he decided to charge her for about ten feet with his mouth open and his head raised up off the ground about 8 inches like a freaking cobra!!! I laughed so hard I fell off my lawnchair!

fresh chicken eggs or store bought? My snakes never seem interested in chicken eggs from the supermarket
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Anthony Chodan

www.gradeareptiles.com

they are medium free range no antibiotics etc supermarket eggs....my other two bps sniff around them but haven't yet tried to eat one.......she eats four and still looks around for more but I figure that's enough for her. She also learned to consistently crack them when they get about 4 inches down by just twisted her neck a bit. The first one takes her a little while to eat and the next three go down real quick. I can actually sit her on my lap on a towel and watch her eat them.

I only give eggs to her a couple of times a year during the summer...she of course loves baby chicks and I actually got 2 dozen small chickens about the size of quail a year or two ago from a local breeder and she dined on those for several months. Not much room in the freezer for frozen people food for a while there!

I've offered my male quail eggs from an asian grocery but he still didn't bite. He never has refused baby chicks tho.

I have two '05 black pines, one is a sweetheart and the other one is pretty nasty. Doesn't just bluff strike like my bulls, but bites. Before your e-book on taming comes out, any tips on taming her down.

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