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Great plains or texas rat snake? two parallel black lines on underside from vent to tip of tail

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Dustin Smith

Great plains(emoryi)

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Those are HUGE meals you are giving it, and although it can initially eat them, it could easily regurgitate meals that big. This leads to other horrible problems REAL QUICK in a domino effect that can even lead to it's death. So it would be MUCH better on the snakes digestive system if you gave it meals half that size max.

best regards, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

The lump was already there, looks to me like he just plucked a big gecko off the side of the house, I found him trying to climb back down the brick. Thanks.
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Dustin Smith

Ah, okay!, very cool!.....

If you make sure it is kept in the low to mid 80's it should digest that okay.

I caught a little corn a few years ago that also just captured a huge meal before I caught it too, I think it was a big tree frog from the look of the lump it had..LOL!

good luck with the little dude!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

That is not a gpr it is a juvi texas rat sorry but it is
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Archie Bottoms

Ya know, after looking at it again,..I think you're right!

I guess anyone can have a bad call once in a while..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Well I was duped too, my field guide suggested gpr but I have seen many juvenile texas rats look just like this. It said the distinquishing feature was the parallel black lines under the tail, oh well, Im not a rat snake guy...Thanks again
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Dustin Smith

Yes, that is a DEFINITE "guttata" characteristic for sure, which emoryi is a very close relative of, so I know for a FACT that Corns have these parallel lines on their subcaudals past the vent. But I do not know for a fact if a Texas does or not. This didn't make too much sense to me either. Which was another reason why I said what I did, even though it displayed other traits that are certainly indicative of linheimeri(Texas Rat)...hmmmm?

Too bad the only Texas I have here is leucistic, that won't do any good here in this case..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

yep T-rat.
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Todd Hughes