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I just purchase my first Thayeri kingsnake from a pet store. Her name is Sydney. She is very docile and tame. She is captive bred and is about 10 weeks old. I fed her as live pinky for the first time yesterday and she kept nudging it while it was laying there, until my girlfriend wiggled it with a tweezer and then she ate without hesitation (btw she was fed in a separate container so she would not associate being handled with being fed). Here are some pics of her. Let me know what you guys think!!!

Here is another pic...

Last pic...let me know what you guys think!!!

i like this first pic. looks like she had big red kissable lips on the back of her neck. Very pretty lil critter you've got there!!!
congrats!
~kin
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I might be wrong, but she looks like she might be a Mex-Mex X Thayeri hybrid. Either way she's gorgeous. I wouldn't sweat feeding her in the same container. I've been breeding snakes since '91 and have never had a problem with it inducing aggresive behavior, especially in a Thayeri.
-Phil

Ditto to everything Patton said, except I have not been feeding snakes quite as long, but no problems, and it does look to be a hybrid, and a great looking one at that.
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The guy I bought her from insisted that she was a purebred Thayeri, so I don't think she is a hybrid.

Some folks think they can tell ssp. by phenotype.

Looks pure to me, but then again, that is the key, isn't it?

"looks" pure. Don't sweat it. Nice thayeri.

Chris