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I thought I'd share a couple of pics anyway!This is my new baby broad banded water snake!Always wanted some of these and thanks to Kevin M.(thanks again)I now have two nice ones!They haven't been sexed yet but,I.m hoping for a pr.The larger one is in shed right now but there wil be pics coming as soon as it sheds. Jeff

I love water snakes! Congrats! Nice that it seems friendly too.
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Have you been hugged by your snake today?

Ball Pythons
1.1 het Caramel Albino (Edward & Bella)
0.1 poss het Caramel Albino (Rosalie)
0.1 Caramel Albino (Bellatrix)
0.1 High Contrast Albino (Princess Buttercup)
0.1 Pastel Orange Ghost (Nagini)
1.0 Butterscotch Ghost (Nick)
0.1 Spider poss het Butterscotch Ghost(Nymphadora)
1.1 Mojave (Lucius & Renesme)
0.1 Pastel Lesser (Narcissa)
0.1 Pinstripe (Arwen)
1.0 Pewter (Salazar)
0.1 Bumble Bee (Alice)
0.1 Lemonblast (Luna)
0.1 Blond Pastel (Katie)
1.0 Bell Pastel (Jasper)
0.1 African Dinker (Esme)
0.0.9 Eggs in the incubator (Edward x Bella)

Corns
1.1 het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Bloodred (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Blizzard het Bloodred poss het Anery Lav (Tumnus)
0.1 Granite (Ravenclaw)
0.1 Fire het Anery (Ginny)
0.1 Anery Lav (Lucy)
0.1 Plasma (Victoria)
0.1 Opal (Jewel)
0.0.23 Eggs in the incubator (Romeo x Juliet)
0.0.18 Eggs in the incubator (Tumnus x Lucy)

Hogs
1.0 Albino Western (Hogwarts)
0.1 het Albino Western (Hufflepuff)
0.1 Tri Color (Molly)

Sooo tiny and cute! Beautiful lil ones, jeff!
Kin
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Tons of Corns, 1.0 Black Rat, 1.0 Leucistic Black Rat X Leucistic Texas Rat Intergrade, Thayeri, Cal Kings, 1.0 Jungle Corn, 3.1 Ball Pythons, 1.0 Albino Nelsons Milksnake, 1.1 Colombian RTBs, Leopard Geckos, 2.4.6 and counting Crested Geckos, 1.0 Striped Fat tail Gecko, 1.0 Striped Panther Gecko, A Snapping Turtle, an Eastern Box Turtle, a Bearded Dragon...probably more i'm forgetting...

I admit I have an attraction to water snakes! I used to see alot of green water snakes around here but don't see them very often anymore. I've been tempted many times to keep a pair. They get huge and are relativley calm after a short time and of course tons of live babies, lol.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

I've always wanted to delve into those - and Redbelly Water Snakes too. Nice pickup!

Tim

Its hit or miss around where I find these guys as to their coloration. The first one captured this season was do dark and had so little white you could almost not tell it was a broadbanded. It still had an awesome dark brick red patterned belly though. I kept it a few days and then released it back where captured. The larger one I sent to Jeff recently has nice bone white bands that are very distinct from the darker banding. Not super wide, but nice. It was so nice looking IMO that I took it home LOL. The baby was captured because it was decent looking and so young. It will hopefully mature into a nice representative of broadbandeds. I wish we had redbellys here. We do have yellow bellys, but they are NASTY!!!!

Thanks Tim! I've always liked them but up to now I had only seen pics of these! To me have a venomous look to them,almost like a water moccasin or something.Hey, If I have any luck later down the road maybe I can hook ya' up! Take care! Jeff

imagine what they look like at 10:00PM on a very dark black top road!! I always do a gut check approaching the watersnakes on that particular stretch of road we road cruise and herp at night LOL!!

Man,I can see why you'd do that!If these guys were native to my area they'd probably be extinct by now.Your little black was a "moccasin" where I work! Jeff