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Is there anyone breeding eastern foxsnakes ??
I am looking to get a pair ...... Matt

A long time back, I got a very nice pair from Bart Bruno- course I swear that man breeds practically every hard to find local of rats and pits... and we are the better for it! Westerns are the easiest to find as you know, but they sure don't have those bright orange/salmon colored heads with the coppery bodies with pink between the scales, and yellow and brown checkerboarding underneath... truly a stunning snake.

Thanks for the compliment. I still have Eastern Fox, cb '95 so they're a little up there, from the Toledo area. They're very sporadic breeders to say the least, contact me privately and I'll keep you posted on their progress. Hibernation has gone very well so far, I have my fingers crossed.

Bart Bruno

Some are just as colorful as Easterns.

Here are couple Westerns that are pretty colorful, but not nearly the nicest I've seen:

This is a more average Western:

those are knockouts! We really should see more of those in the hobby.
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Todd Hughes

Unlike Corns, obsoleta, etc... Wild Caught adult Fox Snakes do rather poorly in captivity. I have tried keep several that I've caught, and only the juveniles did well. It seems like the adults are very picky feeders, and loaded with parasites. A lot of people I know that have tried to keep them gave up for these reasons.

is it maybe because they eat frogs in the wild? I am not familiar with the habitat up there, but most of the snakes down here that are loaded with parasites are frog eaters, they can handle the loads in the wild.
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Todd Hughes

... I've had many over the years, from the very green specimens I've seen from Iowa to the dwarfs on the South Dakota/ Minnesota line, the very yellow Nebraska animals to the more greenish specimens I've found with the Sear's Tower in the distance (all of these animals had orange heads)! Fox Snakes can be demamding and sometimes difficult but worth the effort, and in my view very unique, somewhere between Rat Snakes and Bullsnakes. Easterns are tougher to come by now due to the laws in place, but both animals are gems!

I can't wait for my pair to grow up. I got two hachlings from a guy that had about 20 or so in a tank at the Concord/Charlotte NC Show this past October, for 11$ for the pair. They have been ravenouse feeders and very active, always crawling around. I now have them in a 20 long tank, with only the front exposed to the light of the room, heating pad at one end underneath, 2 half clay pots. They still look up at me and move around a lot, smacking their tails occasionatly at me. They are a lot of fun.