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Took a couple pictures of my BRB on Saturday, after she finished shedding. Weighed and measured her while I was at it too. She is a nice 2000g (give or take, as she wasn't completely finished digesting a rather large meal from a week and half ago, so she may be between 2000-2100g) and roughly 6' long (she was nice enough to double herself along the length of her cage, but since her girth will take up some 'length' at the fold and she wasn't completely nose to tail, not 100% sure on her true length. Cage length is just short of 3' long, so twice that would be 6' give or take an inch or two)

Full body shot (does she look fat?)

A look at her head, she's so shy!

Nice closeup of her body.

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PHLdyPayne

She looks great. Has she been bred, you mentioned she ate a week and a half ago. She shows a large mid body that could be either gravid or still digesting a large meal.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
19.29 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

She hasn't been bred, but she did eat a meal bigger than I typically give her, about a week an half ago. I do have a male but he is in a completely different room (in his own cage of course) and he was never close to her at all (keep him isolated when I bought him in October as a 4 year old adult, but I dont' have room to bring him back into the main snake room now that he is finished quarantine, not till I build the snake rack anyway).

She may just look big in her mid area due to the food not being digested..but even empty, she seems thick. I will post a new picture in a couple weeks, once I am sure she is fully digested to see if there is any difference.

I have been feeding her typically one medium rat every 10-14 days for the last 6-8 months. Before that i fed her every week but was worried she looked a little too thick so cut back to every 10-14 days. She is always ravenously hungry...I am sure she would eat every night if I gave her food every night.
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PHLdyPayne

deadringer for a female I got from Jeff Clark, mines a little porker too lol. Once again, Beautiful animal!!!
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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

Crikey! What a li'l beauty she is! Gorgeous!
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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)
1.0 Hooded Rat* (Clubber, R.I.P.)
0.1 Albino Rat (Isis)

One of my favorite snakes is the Northern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor)don't know if that's why you chose that name, but why else would you choose Coluber but for some type of racer?
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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

The Northern Black Racer is exactly the reason coluberking25 is my user name. I had a fascination with them a few years back and I really wanted to obtain a pair to breed. Unfortunately, that fancy passed. I still have not seen a northern black racer in the wild or in captivity.
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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)
1.0 Hooded Rat* (Clubber, R.I.P.)
0.1 Albino Rat (Isis)

They are realy nice animals, not very popular due to their sometimes raspy disposition and are rarely captive bred, but I have some tame down and fed very well in captivity, one of my favorite snakes in the state of New Jersey where I live.
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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

It's a shame they aren't very popular. I hear they are highly intelligent snakes. that's what interested me in them...as well as their beauty. There's a field by me that should be great for racers...but I havent's seen any there. Then again...I went at a bad time of day(afternoon) to look.
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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)
1.0 Hooded Rat* (Clubber, R.I.P.)
0.1 Albino Rat (Isis)

As long as it's not dark out I have found them in full sun high noon kind of conditions, they are sun loving, diurnal snakes, also after 5pm as well, now you got me itching to go catch one, i will have to go when it gets a bit warmer.
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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

We used to catch Southern Black Racers out in very hot sunny weather. They are very alert and active and prone to bite but some would calm down and eat in captivity. I caught a racer that looked just like Black Racers except for being olive colored in Panama. Same active bitey attitude.
Jeff

>>As long as it's not dark out I have found them in full sun high noon kind of conditions, they are sun loving, diurnal snakes, also after 5pm as well, now you got me itching to go catch one, i will have to go when it gets a bit warmer.
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>>Frank Roberts
>>Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research
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Jeff, funny you should mention that I also have caught southern's in Alabama on vacation, yeah I know strange get a away from jersey, I love fishing and herping in Alabama. Those racers are agro regardless of species in my experience, I have gotten adults to acclimate to F/T, they are one of my favorite colubrids, nothing like a 5 foot plus Northern biting me in my face on a hot august day lol, yes right on the chin hanging right to the ground, fiesty devils they sometimes are.
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Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

Very neat pictures! I've found the scales on the spine of BRB's to be quite interesting. Some seem to be two scales that fused into one. Thanks for the photos!
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I've seen that as well, typically where the snake is changing girth. Must be the effect of keeping scale size more or less the same while increasing/decreasing girth. Otherwise if the count stayed the same, they individual scales would have to change in size.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
19.29 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Big healthy females like that make big healthy litters.

n/p
Bob

Thanks for all your comments She is on my list to breed next season. I could have done it this season but the male was new to my collection and I still haven't figured out how to cool BRB's in my apartment (nearly constant temp of 73-75F all winter except during the coldest time of early January to early February, when the temps outside cause it to drop in my apartment to about 70-73F). That and I didn't want to have too many litters in my first year breeding snakes (also have a corn and ball python litter expected).
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PHLdyPayne