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This is a Love line Hypo. I got her as an adult and she was flawless. She was raised slow n steady, and though she was 3 or 4 years old when bred for the first time she became eggbound. So much for thinking age is more important than size...
Anyhow as you can see she just ate 6 mice. I am trying to beef her up for this year, and will make sure she is very hydrated, as dehydration can be a factor in egg binding. She is a very nice looking snake, and the babies she produced were very cool looking and variable.



Here is her enclosure, a 74 qt container. If you have the room GO BIG, your snakes will love it.

I snapped off a quick pic of my breeder MBK, another huge King that averages 30 eggs per season. She is often admired by visitors as one of the nicest snakes I have.

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TomsSnakes.com

Whoa! That Brooks girl is loaded! I bet she's happy with all those mice in her tummy. Nice MBK too!
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I think so too, not looking forward to cleaning up after she passes that meal..LOL Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

I just love all your snakes! Thanks for posting these pics.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
2.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
2.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.2.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
1.0.0 Japanese Rat Snake
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
0.1.0 San Diego Gopher Snake
3.2.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (2.1 River Road)
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
2.0.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Malagasy Giant Hognoses
1.0.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

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TomsSnakes.com

I love the mbk.
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1.0 ghost
1.1 albino
0.1 het albino

More awesome snakes Tom!

Scott

1 Sinaloan Milk
3 Cal Kings, 2 desert, 1 coastal
2 Black Kings (nigra)!
2 Eastern Kings
2 Speckled Kings
1 Desert King
1 Morph Sonora Gopher snake, half banded, half striped
1 NM Milk snake
1 Western Hognose
And more to come very soon!

All but one of my mbk's came from big momma! I am lifting them up to the screen, they said early Happy Mother's Day!!!
Todd Hughes

I know those babies are in good hands.... wait til you get your Specks! Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Nice bins. Where did you find those?

Nice snakes too. That MBK is huge!

I get them at Target. They're not always in stock so when they have them I grab a few. They're so big you have to actually pay attention to how many you can fit in your car per trip. I think they're ideal for colubrids. Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

yeah they really do look like exactly what I need for my larger kings (and the black milks that are on the top of my wish list!)

What kind of rack do you use them in? Do you find that they can support their own weight as they are pulled out of the rack? Or do they have to be removed completely and rested on a more solid table?

Unfortunately I do not have things set up as I wish I did. I make a lot of my shelves alone and have reused the wood like 4 times already, I just make do with what I have. I have some Vision racks for smaller stuff but I use lids on a lot of my larger containers. It is a hassle and all but since I seem to do well producing babies I just try not to get too frustrated with all the extra work. Lids are a pain, and they take extra time but whatever....it's working for now and eventually I will have a better set up Tom Stevens
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