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Here s a really nice striper that I am baby sitting for my friend Gerrit.

Shannon

Yes,.....I'd say that one's worth babysitting!!LOL........Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

yow.definitely a screamer....what locale?
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"with head raised regally,and gazing at me with lidless eyes,he seemed to question with flicks of his long forked tongue my right to trespass on his territory" Carl Kauffeld

Thanks,
Calvert county.

Shannon

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If that snake is from Atlantic Co. then what's it's origin? The first striped animal was "hatched" out of legally collected Ocean Co. animals collected by Carl Bartlett.
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Steve W.

Steve,
I kinda thought the same thing and it is probably a Ocean Co.I was just going by how it was labled from the seller etc...
Shannon

Shannon, rest assured, without any proof it's an Ocean Co. snake.
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Steve W.

Striping in coastals isn't uncommon. Without any proof the animal is generic.

Tony, striping isn't common either. But "chances" are if the animal has a pronounced stripe it's most likely from then Ocean Co. bloodline.
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Steve W.

My earlier post is gone - I must have done something wrong.
Here;s my striped/spotted Ocean CO. female - Produced by Ted Thompson
Steve

"Most" stripers are NJ origin but striped specimens have come out of St. Mary's stock and they are quite comon among animals found in Wicomico County on the eastern shore. To me that indicates that this trait isn't rare!

Top that with the fact that snakes don't respect county lines and Ocean, Manmouth, Burlington and Atlantic Counties all encompas the pine barrens ecosystem the likelyhood that the trait can be found throughout the range is quite likely. If the breeder said Atlantic, its Atlantic unless it can be proven otherwise, speculation does not cut it. If you can't or don't trust the local the breeder gave then animal is generic.

I would then call it a generic because without proof of it being a "legally" colleced animal it would be safe to say nothing else.
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Steve W.