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I am hoping some of you guys have an idea of how this works from experience...

Do southern hognose snakes typically gain more peach color on their back as they get older, or does it tend to be however they look as hatchlings is just about as nice as they will ever look?

For instance, what do you predict hatchling southerns like these will turn out like as adults?
(BTW these pics are not mine, they from A.C.)

the peach generaly fades to a lighter color
one month old normal

one year old funny he has the same attitude

one week old red

sibling red 2 years later pic taken tonight

That red is stunning! I really need to get me some more of those.
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Jenea
Guardian Reptiles

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do you breed them? id love to get my hands on some of the babies from that orange one, its the most amazing one ive ever seen. the other ones amazingly nice too. im from long island new york, so we got the pure black ones, sometimes with a few yellow dots. real plain and boring. but those are great looking. what locality are they?

Mike I think you are confusing species you are describing a color morph of Eastern hognose. These are Southerns.

I don't know about that Tom, I would call those orange morphs. The 3 adult southerns I had did not have any orange on them. They were just tan in color. I think the southerns have more color variation than people give them credit for.
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Jenea
Guardian Reptiles

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Jenea I am confused about your post. My post to Mike was in reference to the fact that he lives in New York and to my knowledge there are no southerns in his range but there are easterns. Please give me more detail about what you are questioning.? tom

(im from long island new york, so we got the pure black ones, sometimes with a few yellow dots. real plain and boring. but those are great looking. what locality are they? Mike1234

Mike I think you are confusing species you are describing a color morph of Eastern hognose. These are Southerns. tom

I don't know about that Tom, I would call those orange morphs. The 3 adult southerns I had did not have any orange on them. They were just tan in color. I think the southerns have more color variation than people give them credit for.)
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Jenea

When he said he loved the orange one he was referring to the pics of the southerns. When he spoke about the black he was referring to the native easterns. More confusion on his part I think. At least that was how I took it...
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Jenea
Guardian Reptiles

"When your memories are bigger than your dreams, you're headed for the grave" Author unknown

thanks. i was confusied, i thoght you were refering to me, thinking i thought that southerns only came in one color. tom

Now that southern is smoking!! I may need to talk to you soon!
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Jenea
Guardian Reptiles

"When your memories are bigger than your dreams, you're headed for the grave" Author unknown