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I've never posted a picture on this site so if it doesn't work please excuse me and maybe you nice people can write me instructions in a reply. This hopefully is a picture of a real nice southern I got in the last hamburg show. It's a male. It's a big eater and he thinks he's a rattle snake, REAL MEAN !! But beautiful.

WoW, It worked!! These are northerns that I caught and thanks guys for the help in getting rid of the mites. Now that they are mite free, I'm releasing all but 2. My problem now is getting them to eat. The 2 that did eat, are the least colorful so I'm letting them go. One of the 2 that I'm keeping looks gravid. when I caught it, It was entwined and probably mating, I caught the 2 together.

Copperheads are, in my opinion, north america's most beautiful snake. If I ever get a hot, that's what it will be.

nice pics.
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The Reticulated Rattler

1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

The one in the first pic that you said was mean has that wierd feeding response look in his eyes lol.

WC northerns are hit and miss adjusting to captivity. I have tried 5 from the wild and not one ever ate. contortrix are gorgeous serpents, no doubt about it.
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger sallie
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
2 G rosea
1 Haplo minax

How long did you keep your coppers before you decided they weren't going to eat? I've had mine for 5 weeks. How much longer do you guys think I should try? I remember one time that my black & white spitter went 6 months without eating and all of a sudden ate like a pig and was fat and fine. I never knew why.

This is not the greatest picture but it is a picture of the 2 northerns that I would like to keep. They haven't eaten in 5 weeks but I remember that my black and white spitter went off her feeding for 6 months then all of a sudden just started eating like a pig. She was a very healthy animal. I never new why it took a break from eating. As you can see, these guys look very healthy. When do you guys think I should start to worry and release them?

Large one gravid most likely.
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I keep and collect trans pecos copperheads.KEPT THESE GUYS OVER 25 YEARS. Some say they are hard feeders iv collected over 200 not one has ever not ate. time and patience are the key.Young snakes are no problem older ones are set in there ways.Give them time to acclimate.
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Thanks for the encouragement guys, I really appreciate it. I'm hoping the big female is gravid. If she is, I may try to keep one but I plan on releasing them were I caught her.

I would release the coppers well before the winter if you plan to and only if they have been quarantined away from the rest of your collection----before they lose too much weight or potentially expose the rest of the wild A.c. mokasen population to disease. In the future only buy captive bred specimens---CB copperheads are way too common in the trade to duplete nature of their beauty and rightful niche in the natural world. As for the Naja siamensis: if it was an adult male, it is not unusual for them to fast through late Sept./early Oct. through almost mid April each year due to they are focused on breeding/finding a mate at that time.
Drew.