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Only 5' off my back porch and 3'from my truck tailgate while i was loading this morning.Startling YES

WHAT THE!???????

Please give us a more of this story. What eventually happened here? Did you seperate. Spill the beans

Remarkable insitu photo op. Hope you got more pictures.

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Lets just say here is the scarletsnake(so i believe it to be)still alive 10 hours post trauma.
i have been seeing alot of skinks near my back porch and would utter to myself "CORALS love these things".First coral seen on my property. And being a Key Rat i wear sandels quite a bit.the easy on/off instead of tracking that sand in. as you get mounds with lace ups in the mud room/kitchen

I was going to say, that looked like a scarlet snake.

so do you think that it has a degree of immunity to coral venom or do you suspect that the coral was just trying to get him down w/o venom?
curious as to what led to the stalemate...

thanks for the post. kind of like CNN for reptile news. well maybe CNN 20 years ago...lol

daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...

I dont know if the pictures show but the scarlet had the coral TAPED shut i believe.........24 later the scarlet is still alive

taped shut, huh? Its amazing how hard some things will fight against the odds when the choice is lights on or lights out.

where did you say you were? the keys?
daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...

What happen to the Coral? Did it die or what? Thats a awesome thing to see your lucky bro.

Chris Flowers

How cool is that in your back yard? Wow! I love corals and they are pretty easy going captives, but if you step on one- for sure it will try and bite you. I have milked them many times, and they do not give up the venom on the first bite a lot of the time. They have to get a bit pissed, then they bite pretty hard and let it go. They seem to be very able to control it. The scarlet is a preferred food item, and it is lucky you saved it or it would be coral poop.

How cool is that in your back yard? Wow! I love corals and they are pretty easy going captives, but if you step on one- for sure it will try and bite you. I have milked them many times, and they do not give up the venom on the first bite a lot of the time. They have to get a bit pissed, then they bite pretty hard and let it go. They seem to be very able to control it. The scarlet is a preferred food item, and it is lucky you saved it or it would be coral poop.

Wow,, You sure know a lot about corals. Thanks for sharing that.

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rainer,
I think that is the white hypo i was trying to get you to trade for the dh ws hypos a couple years ago,lol... what a cool snake. ah well. did you get it to breed this year, and if so, what did you pair it with?

daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...

I did not breed it to a bone white hypo this year. I am doing that next year.

Instead i bred it to a NE axanthic to eventually produce some outstanding ghosts. I know, I know. It takes some time . But in the ned it is worth it.

I would rather create hets that will produce new things in the hobby than wait or go for the easy buck$..

Jelly

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>> I would rather create hets that will produce new things in the hobby than wait or go for the easy buck$..

gee, it seemed in herpetoculture it used to be that the money was in producing the hets for new projects, hahaha. Somewhere over time I guess too many purchasers ended up with "non hets" to allow that model to continue...

looking forward to see what those double hets look like. some of the best normals I used to see were 2x hets for hypo and axanthic.

daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...

Dave,

I find it odd that people want to buy the actual visual rather than raise up hets. It is cheaper and will pay off more than any other snake investment.

people just want the visual now reather than hets or possible hets. Most of my hets are not double hets but rather 3x and 4x hets. With 3 and 4x possible hets the odds are severely stacked in there favor. I can understand with DOUBLE or SINGLE possible hets. but QUAD hets??? Gimme a break. For nearly 1/20 or 1/15th of the price of the actual visual that is a great investment. And not to mention the payoff for sevral years after of producing the newest morphs in the hobby.

I don't know anymore what is going on with people heads. Maybe it it is the NEW and FAST generation of the internet and lifestyle. Everything quick.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing. The colors are strikingly beautiful - which is why I call them "living gems".

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Driving to Olympia, WA from Vancouver this morning at 11:45 PDT, on I-5 near Chehalis, my buddy & I saw what looked like a GIANT propeller tumbling almost straight down from the sky.

It resembled a giant maple leaf, spinning to the ground. It hit with considerable force a few feet from the freeway, not far from us.

It was two, male Bald Eagles! They had begun a vicious fight in the air, then spiraled downward. On the ground, they continued fighting, refusing to release their grasps.

The female of one (Defender?) swooped twice to aid her male in the fray. As we drove away, they were still fighting on the ground.

I've seen Sparrows fight viciously before, even chasing each other for considerable distances, but this was my once-in-a-lifetime view of such aerial acrobatics.

1.0 Conjuncta
1.0 Nigrita

Wow!,....that's certainly something that is very rarely ever seen by human eyes!....Thanks for capturing those pics.

Apparently that Scarlet didn't get anything more than a "dry" bite, or he would've certainly been history within minutes.

That is one LUCKY Scarlet Snake!..LOL!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"