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I just got this Brunswick Cty.Va. corn from a friend today!The pic is misleading,he/she is much darker in person,I'll take outside pics soon! Jeff

Hes dark. I think the flash is just marking him shine. It seems more and more not typical WC corns are being found. But maybe now when they are found, people are appreciating them? So they get collected?

Either way very cool.

Thanks again Jeff
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>>Hes dark. I think the flash is just marking him shine. It seems more and more not typical WC corns are being found. But maybe now when they are found, people are appreciating them? So they get collected?
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>>Either way very cool.
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actually a lot, if not most, of them ARE typical it's just that the internet allows more people to see the diversity of wild caughts and grow to appreciate them more.

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i personally like some w/c critters.. its proof they are 100% corn. Not many snakes in the VA area can interbreed.... but i also understand that people could be "overcollecting" 1 only have 2 males... and i highly doubt 2 w/c long term captive males would make a difference... i know some people who have strictly wild caught animals... BUT if you drive around my part of VA. Every part of the woods is getting torn up for new schools and new houses. I live right down the street from pocahontas state park and they are tearing part of the park down to make "log cabins" but the funny part!?!?! they are building TONS of long cabins and tearing down the park for that... then they need to make MORE fire roads to have multiple ways to get to these cabins... I know the park is large, but isnt a state park to preserve trees? not cut them down?!?!?!
~kin
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I use to think most were pretty drab. I was out of having herps from about 1980-2001? And to be honest I never liked corns. It all started with a "red corn" we had at the shop. A 4'+ female for $125. She sate for 6 months. She ate medium rats and I just kind of fell for her. And Yes, she ended up being a bloodred. Long story finding out, and sadly she passed after her first clutch. I'll post a pic below.

But over the years, I've acquired a taste for some of the WC ones I see. I've always liked rosy corns, and I brought them up last year in here. But WC ones from Virginia and NC. Not super bright colors like an okeetee, but a few just have great color combos. At least to me.

My taste in herps as always been odd. I love water monitors, dislike croc monitors. I loved the 2 bengal monitors I had, but not to found of Sav's anymore. (I had 4) But I also like anoles. Especially some of the island sp. I guess my point is, value has little to do with it. Although I'd love to have my bengals back. lol But corns have so many morphs, it's hard to not find a few you just go WOW over. Plus at one time I was a math major at CSU. I like the genetics behind the corns.

I have to admit I'm very intrigues by hybrids. Just because of the genetics and what you may be able to produce. but like in Jurassic Park, just because you can, does not mean you should. My opinion was more pro hybrids, but it has gotten to the point where I don't think I ever would in snakes. One main reason is they will inevitably get lose, and will effect nature. That's my view. I know I won't stop others, and won't try,, to hard lol. But I feel I must do what is right for me.

I do have some birds. mainly rescues thru the shop. I have a high strung blue and gold macaw I'd love to find a male for. I love to watch my paired up birds when they are playing. Bead wrestling and just acting a fool with each other. The macaw is rather nice when you play with her a few days. She'll regurge on my chest as I'm lying down lol. That's a sign of looooove. But I like to see birds in pairs. If ya want to see a bit more about them you can go to my family site www.mett.com/

The site is not up to date, and a bit goofy in places. I think there is a link for my daughter, as she wanted pictures I took at one of her college volleyball games. It's another site I do nothing with lol. It stands for Millie Erica Thomas and Thomas. he had to be Jr. as he was born on my birthday.

WOW,, this got long. 6:40 and I'm still awake. Let me see if I can correct that. I'll catch up much later in the day..

Females Cage

And one very old one of me, about 1978? With my Pet Shop tee shirt on. Sadly I can play santa now.

OK time to crash! lol

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Big Tom

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HEY! how'd you get a picture of my mother in law!?!?!?! you captured all her wrinkles and everything!!!!

ever since i was younger- since "technically" i'm still young in my mid-later 20s... But when i lived at wrightsville beach, NC i used to catch wild hermit crabs, fiddler crabs, green anoles and green snakes in my yard... actually last february i went to the beach house for my husbands birthday and caught a sexed pair of green anoles... they sell for $6-8 each here... and its kind of a souvenir. i was actually using 1 lastnight to scent some pinkies for some problems feeders... only 1 ate-better than nothing.. BUT i was told when i was at the beach house by my next door neighbor that cornsnakes have started to show up on the island... which i find interesting. They have never been there before.. only the green snakes... But i'm guessing somehow they got across the bridge and little by little eating the squirrels some drunk thought it would be cool to see squirrels on a beach and the rats who live in the drain pipes underground...along with the green anoles and i guess maybe a green snake or 2... the reason we know about the rats b/c every hurricane when the water raised up... since we were right at sea level whatever lived underground came up to land... But i would LOVE to find a corn from my home town!!! i agree the VA corns are beautiful... i like their gray background colors with little black peppering and the orangey-red saddles. I am far from a HUGE breeder, but i have some really really nice critters and some pretty nice critters.. of course, i wouldnt say any of my critters were terrible except for the non-feeding hatchlings... HAHA
~kin
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what in gods name is that wrinkled thing? it's so ugly it's cute!

I liked rodents a lot. They were so weak, it was like nursing a 2-3 week old mouse. They never did breed for me.

I wish I could have had that in a rat.
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Big Tom

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sure looks different than the charlotte county, va corns.. interesting... and the "muddying" color gives it personality i think...
~kin
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