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Hello!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I still lurk around to check out all the beautiful boas. There sure have been some screamers coming out this season! Holy Smokes! Every year it just gets better and better.

My snakes are doing great. I moved back to the Bay Area (CA), am engaged to a wonderful man who loves my snakes as much as I do and I couldn’t be happier.

I have an opportunity to get an ’01 proven hog isle female, the only problem is her exact lineage isn’t known. I believe she is a hog based on the look of the markings on the head but am not sure. Would anyone be willing to look at the pics I have and give me their opinion if she’s a true hog isle or not? (shoot me an email at hisba@yahoo.com and I’ll forward the pics) I have a Rio Bravo male hog now and I don’t want to mix the hog genetics with Colombian, so I am kind of wary of getting an unknown female. What would most of you do in this situation?

I hope everyone is having a wonderful year! It’s nice to see all the new faces and see some familiar faces still around (no Linda? I’m sad)! I’ll get around to posting some updated pics soon.

Happy herpin’
-April

Here's another one for ya...
Below is a pic of a snake that my co-worker's son found in his backyard in Austin Texas this AM. I'm thinking some kind of rat snake?

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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

Welcome back....I bleieve you are correct on the ID...looks like a Texas Rat snake.

Hey April, Just wanted to say welcome back and welcome to the bay area (SJ myself).

Sorry but would be no Help on the ID,
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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:
21.29 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri(Texas Ratsnake)

I have a few ( morphs ) of this species here's one called a "lavender"...

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Thanks,

Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

Thanks Frank!
That morph is very nice and pretty!

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Thanks,

Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

they breed with other rat snake species in the state, being that specimen is so dark, I would consider this a possibilty.

I do not know where austin is located but these texas rats also hybridize with Baird's rat snakes in certain parts of texas.

texas rat specie info

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Thanks,

Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

ok, the snake is not a hog, most likely a cross.
glad I got some help (thanks GUS!) saved me some prescious $!
lol
I advised my friend the snake her son found is a texas ratsnake, harmless, that he should let it go and it will keep his yard mouse free.
take care and thanks for the help!
old pic of my hog isle... just because.

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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

"Black Rat Snake"
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta

Very common in our area,
Cranky little buggers as young'ns and every bit of two handfuls
as 6-7' WC adults
Wheres Dave Elliott when ya need him ?

TnK

I tried to escape a few years back but only got to Sacramento before being sucked back! I find lots of people from the SF Bay Area on King snake.

I wish we had a really good reptile exhibit at one of our zoo's but Oakland’s and SF’s are pretty week! East Bay V is probably the closest thing we have that’s open to the public until Steinhart opens next year.

I would love to see a reptile exhibit downtown San Jose, maybe near the Children’s discovery Museum. San Jose is bigger than San Francisco and we only have Kelly Park Zoo. They need to step it up and have something different!

Welcome back to the best weather on earth! You didn’t tell anybody that the earthquakes are really a joke; we don’t want everyone moving here!