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We got a new snake today!!!

EddieF Jun 09, 2007 07:51 PM

Now we've done it. Hamburg show today we picked up a beautiful bearded dragon for my wife and I got to pick out a snake. I decided on this awesome Kisatchie corn snake! I know he's not a king but this is the forum I like so he's going here.

I loved his colors from the top, and then when I picked him up and saw the ligher colors on the side I just had to have him.

If someone could tell me how to update my signature with his official name, I'd appreciate it!





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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana

Replies (13)

Beaker30 Jun 09, 2007 07:57 PM

Eddie,

Nice looking corn. Scientific name: Elaphe guttata guttata. How was the hamburg show? Were there alot of hatchlings yet?
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5.4 Variable Kings
1.4 Kunasir Island Rats
1.1 Albino Japanese Rats
1.1 Everglades Rats
0.1 White Oak Gray Rat
0.1 Speckled King
0.1 Tarahumara Mtn King
0.1 Amelanistic Corn

Steve_Craig Jun 09, 2007 08:23 PM

Nice Kisatchie corn. Official name, "Elaphe guttata slowinskii"

Steve

>>If someone could tell me how to update my signature with his official name, I'd appreciate it!
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SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

EddieF Jun 09, 2007 09:03 PM

I'm pretty new at all this, only got our first snake in Feb. of this year. But this, by far, was the best show we've been to. Less merchandise than I expected but way, way more animals. There were lots of snakes but I actually didn't see many that looked really newly born.

Crazy stuff I've never seen before. One of the coolest looking snakes we both agreed was a venomous rhino viper or something. Way cool.
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana

antr1 Jun 09, 2007 10:35 PM

Hamburg wasn’t as good as usual.

As a customer there weren’t a whole lot of hatchlings. Mostly odds and ends left from last year, lots of single males. There were a LOT of empty tables which there normally never is. And other then when they first opened there was no line at all. Even most of the bigger vendors that normally have from 2 to 4 tables full had empty tables. (the ball guys)

As a vendor it wasn’t very busy. From 9:45 on there was no line outside at all.

As usual there were a lot of venomous but since I can’t keep them I don’t pay too much attention to them so I don’t know if the choices were skimpy or not.

The only thing that stuck out to me this time were the number of cheap chrondros. There must have been more then 2 dozen around from $200 to $400. I was really tempted to give them a try.

FunkyRes Jun 10, 2007 12:24 AM

It may be early in the season yet for a lot of hatchlings.
The "gurus" here are largely just starting to get snakes pipping, I imagine quite a few of them still have large numbers of eggs cooking.

Maybe some of the big vendors get things started sooner, I know it seems some of the pet stores have hatchling corns year round (I almost wonder though if they just rarely feed thus keeping them small) - but I'm guessing June is still early for a lot of vendors to have neonates.
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3.6 L. getula californiae - 16 eggs (Cal. King)
1.1 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
3.3 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - 14 eggs (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

phiber_optikx Jun 10, 2007 12:30 AM

Pet stores don't keep the corns for a year it's bad business. Usually we try to have them in and out within a week. So the question is, are the supliers not feeding them? The stores always get blamed when it's the vendors you should question. Pet stores have nothing to gain by displaying snakes. We want them gone!
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.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"

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FunkyRes Jun 10, 2007 01:30 AM

Local pet store has a black belly high white cal king - they keep upping the price every few months, they've had it since October and are asking way too much - and won't take any adults ever again. It's a beautiful snake, they just want too much for it - and it's not a baby, people want to buy babies.

I'm not blaming the pet stores for small corns, but either the big mass breeders are breeding them year round (very possible) or they find a way to keep them small (IE lack of feeding) as baby corns I've seen tend to grow like weeds - at least when fed.

What's also interesting, I never see normal corns in typical pet stores - not even Okeetee. Reptile specialty shops, sure, but never the small pet stores that happen to carry reptiles. Every corn is a morph. Every freakin' one.

Normal cal kings are rare too - only normals I've seen in my local pet store were some stripers (and they looked like desert stripe, so not sure if that is "normal" unless it is that rare scissor crossing locality) - and the one banded I sold them.

In fact, one employee noted she had never seen one with real nice bands like that and no striping - every "banded" they get shows some aberrancy. She thought I selectively bred it! I guess she doesn't look at the DORs that can be found from time to time on the major road right by the pet shop ... as their banding is just as "perfect"
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3.6 L. getula californiae - 16 eggs (Cal. King)
1.1 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
3.3 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - 14 eggs (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

lbrat Jun 09, 2007 09:38 PM


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"Upon Thy Belly Thou Shalt Go"

EddieF Jun 10, 2007 12:17 PM

that's wild, what is that??
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

lbrat Jun 10, 2007 12:59 PM

Female blonde trans pecos rat snake.Now I have 1.2
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"Upon Thy Belly Thou Shalt Go"

Br8knitOFF Jun 10, 2007 08:59 PM

GORGEOUS snake!

Antelope and I were out in West Texas the past couple of days looking for those- struck out!

VERY nice!

//Todd

Guttersnacks Jun 11, 2007 06:29 AM

Neat snake!! I remember that one, I considered it myself....
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

EddieF Jun 11, 2007 07:34 PM

Well the first feeding went great! He ate two fuzzies this evening no problem. I hope that means he's getting comfortable in his new home. Compared to our king, it was a little startling how wide he opens his mouth! Much longer head I guess...
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

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