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Hi All...

I am a new member and I am curious if anyone can tell me what type of kingsnake I have here? I have tried image searches and come up at a loss, I would really appreciate any help you all could offer!!
I posted a picture in the kingsnake gallery.
Lori

>>Hi All...
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>> I am a new member and I am curious if anyone can tell me what type of kingsnake I have here? I have tried image searches and come up at a loss, I would really appreciate any help you all could offer!!
>> I posted a picture in the kingsnake gallery.
>> Lori

Lori,
Can you post a link to your image....
Actually if it is in the gallery you can post the picture here too.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

I thought I did post to the gallery, sorry! I hope this works from the link at the bottom.
Thanks!

>>I thought I did post to the gallery, sorry! I hope this works from the link at the bottom.
>> Thanks!
>>

Looks like a florida king of some sort....I have no idea what morph....Lavendar?
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Thank you for taking the time to reply... I will keep looking around.. I bought him at an auction and did not get to meet the seller so I am quite stumped.... I checked your website, you have some gorgeous snakes!

>>Thank you for taking the time to reply... I will keep looking around.. I bought him at an auction and did not get to meet the seller so I am quite stumped.... I checked your website, you have some gorgeous snakes!

You are welcome and.....
Thanks for the compliment
...It looks like Nick answered your question below....
I was thinking it had some eastern in it too, but didn't for sure know.....and lavendar is just extreme hypo to me....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Looks like a Hypo Florida X Eastern king.

Yeah, that's basically what it looks like to me too. The cross-bars and overall pattern look a bit odd to be truly 100 percent floridana to me however.

Very tough to tell certain odd-occurring anomalies from some man-made crosses anymore, as the pecentages of these mixtures are many times very tough to put your finger on.

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Well it is hard to tell from the flash what morph it is but it does look very thin. i hope you are feeding it some fuzzie or hopper mice!

Can you post another pic without the flash?????
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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Hi there,

I will try to take another pic of him soon, The reason he looks skinny is he has been AWOL in the house since the end of Sept, and I just found him in my basement, am sure he had not eaten the whole time as we do not have mice, but he had access to water as we have had a couple small floods.... (UGH). I immediately brought him up to his enclosure, got it heated and let him warm up a few hours then offered him a fuzzy... it took him almost an hour to get it in ... I felt so bad for him, it looked like alot of work... but he has had a few days to digest and is almost back to himself, he was striking and musking the first couple times I took him out. Now he is just soaking in his water dish ( is it normal for them to stay in water for 5-6 hours??)
Thanks again for your time!

Snakes often sit in their bowls,....sometimes it is because conditions(temps) are not optimum, and are too warm, other times it can be from acquiring mite infestations, too low a humidity, etc..., it really can depend on many things at any given time and circumstance.

If your temps are in the high 80's or so on ONE SIDE ONLY! of it's enclosure, and the other side is in the mid 70's(pretty optimum for self-thermoregulation), I simply suspect it is just trying to re-hydrate itself after being gone for so long in the much drier winter environment.

Yes, definitely on the thin side for sure, but I can certainly understand why depending on how long it has been gone. Good luck getting it back up to snuff!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Hi there
Thanks alot.. for all your help people! I have uploaded a couple pictures of Arthur, without flash but had trouble resizing the better ones so using the not so good ones, I could crop enough to be small enough to fit in here!

Here is a hypo I produced last season:

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Shane@SSuperiorSSerpents.com
http://www.ssuperiorsserpents.com/

Wow! I was just looking on your website, those are some beautiful snakes!! I would like to get a few more, however with over 100 parrots etc, I have my hands full right now!!

This pic is gorgeous, the colouring is fantastic~! I hope you kept her/him!! I know the only way to sex accurately is done by a vet but are there behaviour/ physical traits that could indicate possible male or female?? I am agreeing, Arthur looks most like the morph you have shown me... Will his colour deepen , or intensify with age or is this pretty much his adult colouring? I forget how old the auctioneer said the snake is, but guessing a couple months when I got him in Aug..

Most are hatched in July through late September, so it is only a few months old now. It will loose all the red it now has, and will turn into light yellows. It will also lighten up a bunch from developing much more interband speckling as well on many of the scales that are dark now. The overall look of the snake will be much yellower, and lighter, with much more speckling than it has now. You will notice a MAJOR change as it matures, trust me on this one

enjoy!, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

lorianne1970

Can you get a still pic of the top of the head of that snake and a whole body shot from the top.

I am thinking this may be something else besides a hypo or a hypo x eastern. But i don't know until i see better pics.
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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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I would agree that its hypo Fla x Eastern Chain king. They come in a lot of different looks.

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Shane@SSuperiorSSerpents.com
http://www.ssuperiorsserpents.com/

This is a gorgeous snake! Cannot wait till mine reaches this size!

I think it's hypo but not necessariy a cross. I've had very similar hypo FL kings hatch out.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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and it will lighten considerably, which isn't a bad thing at all.

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Todd Hughes