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Seems like this forum has been rather dead lately so I thought I would do my share. Help me out everyone. Here are some freshly hatched taeniura mocquardi. Randy Whittington

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This girl laid two bad eggs and then laid these two about 10 days later. This was a big let down as you might imagine. Randy

This little one thinks it's a green tree python. Randy

I really like the lavender color they have as hatchlings. It lightens up as they age. Randy

Getting it's first look at the world (or at least the incubator). RW

And a very pretty baby!

-Toby

These guys have great color as hatchlings. Really cool snakes. Randy

Check out the one piping. RW

Very nice! Is it true that the flavirufa are rear fanged?
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.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
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"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

If so I am unaware of it. Randy

Cant wait to see these guys hatch. RW

I just figured I would give it it's old name since I wasn't putting the picture on the corn snake forum.
This is a 2 year old female. She had just eaten two hoppers as you can probably tell.
I hope to see some of these peaking out of the egg any minute now. I LOVE this time of year. RW

WOW! I'm a miami-phase fan myself, but that, that is incredible!

HOOO HOOO!!! Man!, That's one SWEEEEET okeetee! Jeff

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Randy............We still call 'em red rats down here in Florida, but that sure looks like one of them there "corn snakes" from Jasper county, SC.........and a nice one to boot.

Dinner time.

You have a large family...or youre having guests.
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That's actually just food for some out of one of two snake rooms. I clean lots of crap but their are folks out there that feed and clean much more than I do. Randy

This is a male.

Wish I had anything good to put up. I especially liked the yellow beauties and the prasina.

Best regards
John

Thanks a lot John.

Okay Randy, I'll put up some pics. Some new, some old... and some just plain bad. LOL!

Here's a male yearling Elaphe bimaculata that you produced. I like this little guy a lot!

-Toby

thanks for posting this. i have one juvie friesi and might breed him in the future so i keep an eye out, and it seems like many "taiwan beauty snakes" out there are actually mocquard's.

anyone know of a good guide on telling the difference?
i see things like strength of the ladder pattern being weaker in mocquardi, and the pattern getting farther up the neck in friesi but i dunno if those are just me or if it's consistent.

also i'll get a couple new pictures up of my beauty this week. he's gotta be pushing 30" now. here he is when he was much smaller.

The tiawans markings start noticably farther up on the neck than they do on mocquardi. They definatly have much stronger or bolder markings on their upper bodies than the mocquardi do in genreal. The clutch that I pictured have bolder markings on average than most mocquardi. The true mocquardi tend to have the brightest yellow color especially as adults than the other yellow and greenish beauties. The tiawans also have a heavier body for their length which is espicially noticable on adults. Most of what you see out there that are marked tiawan beauties that are not are usually chinese beauties (taeniura taeniura). I'm in a hurry so I probably left some things out. Randy

Nice pics of great snakes as always Randy. I got my table situation squared away for Daytona and hope to arrive on Thursday. The first beer is on me. Tom Stevens
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