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hi everyone........ready for my third king(have a brooks and grey banded)and theres a show coming up on long island in march.anyway,i was looking at thayeri as my next king but there doesnt seem to be much info. on these snakes in books or in care sheets on web sites.can anyone with experience with these snakes give me some info. like size,temps.,etc.....thank you much

Try the mexicana forum, some of the people there post here but there are more there that can help you specifically. Mine are kept as all my kings. What works for getula should work well for thayeri, besides you already have a mexicana, the grayband. Care is the same.
Todd Hughes

Especially the "peach/orange" milksnake phase you have!!, Those suckers were VERY expensive when they were first hit the market!!........I had one die on me while it was eating a lizard!!!, I went back in the snake room about thirty minutes later to check on his progress, and the lizard was still no further down than it was when I left!!, I reached into pick him up, and he was dead as a door nail......man was I pissed!! I can only assume that he didn't adjust his "glottis"(air pipe) correctly off to the side, and he wasn't able to breath!...that always really "baffled" me.....It was a brand new hatchling, so maybe there was some kind of internal deformity, I don't know, but he was awesome looking just like the one you have!, best regards,.............................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

Thanks, from Chris Garcia, and worth it! Sorry about your snake.
Todd Hughes

I can't wait until I see more of them this summer poking their heads out of their eggs. I still have a few more 2006 that I'm holding until spring.
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Vichris

Vichris Variables

Click on the SierraHerps link in the advertisers on the top of the forum page. It has everything you ever wanted to know about the mexicana complex.
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0.1 Amelanistic Corn
1.0 Pueblan Milk
0.1 Blair's Gray Banded King
0.1 Blonde Trans Pecos Rat
1.1 Silver Trans Pecos Rat
1.2 Variable King
0.1 Chihuahua Mtn. King
0.2 Kunasir Island Rat
0.1 Baird's Rat
0.1 White Oak Gray Rat
0.1 Everglades Rat

You will see that "thayeri" has an almost endless variation of
"looks", which is why they are aka "Variable Kingsnake", as most of the "mexicana" complex has...they have good temperments, and are relatively small(around three feet).......What else is neat about "thayeri", is the fact that you can get a number of VERY different looks from the offspring of the same clutch of eggs,...................................................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

Vivid Reptiles and Sierra herps both have some excellent info on them. They are great snakes. Check out my site too. I've got a fair number of pictures.

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Vichris

Vichris Variables

AND a fair number of awesome snakes!!!
Todd Hughes