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Every year I collect a handful of green racers for breeding, they are easy to breed and hatch. All of these were found 30 feet from each other. It took fifteen minutes to collect four that were all different colors. Here is a few pictures of Kansas Yellowbellied racers you will notice only one is greenish the rest look blue. There is a dark specimen, mottled dark specimen green specimen and blue specimen. I included a brown one I rescued from a flood yesterday. Here is a bunch of pictures.

Here is a mottled specimen

This is a brown specimen

Dark one

Light one

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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

I have a juvenile Western Yellow-bellied racer which I rescued from a trough which it was stuck in. Loves to eat crickets, but ignores pinkies and lizards. It is also a mottled specimen. Great little snakes!
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Roy Blodgett
Green Man Herpetoculture
royreptile@yahoo.com

1.1 Drymarchon corais
0.1 Coluber mormon
1.1 Lampropeltis getula californiae (desert phase)
1.0 Boiga dendrophila dendrophila
0.1 Candoia aspera (red phase)
1.1 Uroplatus henkeli
1.1 Corytophanes cristatus
1.1 Varanus acanthurus brachyurus (Mt.Isa)
2.1 Pogona vitticeps (snow and red/gold)
1.0 Iguana iguana

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WOW!!..I've gone GREEN now ...with bloody envy !!!

What I would do for one of those babies!!...I hav'nt got my black-racer YET!!...but expecting one this summer,probably being imported to the U.K. by Glade Herps.I have to get it from a dealer here who has placed a large shipment from the U.S.

Are these all the same sub-species Bill?

Paul

p.s. Don't suppose anybody imports green-racers to the UK ?????

Yes Paul they all came from the same tin pile except the brown one, they are "Coluber constrictor flaviventris". I usually find ones that all look the same it was odd to find such a variety. Five snakes five color phases! The brown one has the brightest yellow color underneath breed them mostly for research. I keep them outside near the area where they were found and they have no access to snakes in my collection. I have never sold any. The largest ones are five feet.
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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

Incredable colour variation Bill ...nice pictures thanks!

Do you keep them in outdoor enclosures..for your research??

I'm thinking of making something outdoors for my coachwhip..
..we are forecasted a good summer this year.Give the guy a change from his viv.

Paul

Yes I have those and the Black Rat Snakes in outdoor enclosures.
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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

Fascinating!!..if you ever get time Bill would love to see a photo of this project.

cheers Paul

I've caught and have / had bnlue-black and buttercsotch racers; I think a green would add to my colony nicely. Any Ideas?