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I dont know either of you, but just wanted to say that I apploud your passion/sickness for snakes. I too, am spiraling into a crowded house. I dont have a wife to contend with(my friends say this is why!), and with two teenage sons at home we were plenty comfortable with 3 greyband, 3 brooksi, a rosy, a mexican black, a pair of balls and my only wild caught, a desert phase cal king that ive had several years. So, after breeding my greybands, which were my f-1s, I had to keep the nicest ones, didnt I??? and then you really dont want to do too much inbreeding so the only logical thing to do is go out and find new blood isnt it??? Thats what I did. I added two new males to go with my female holdbacks...
But not just you two, this site is filled with many passionate posters. Jlassitor,mike russo,kerby,knoct tom, bluerosy,pyro. RossCa, who just happens to take some of the best rosy boa in the wild shots each spring, you gotta check out field notes forum this spring...
Oh well, just glad im not the only one...

LOL!,...very cool man!, those are some sweet alterna!

Yeah, I just had to feed my "habit" today by "scoring" a pair of very locality specific "greenish" ratsnakes(Yellow rat x Black rat). This very pale male with pink eyes was captured in June of 2006 by my friend in northeastern S. Carolina in the middle of nowhere on a HUGE wildlife refuge he lives by. It was just shy of 20 inches long when he came across it just before the sun came up after just getting to work. The two female normal "greenish" rat's he later bred this male morph to where also captured by him personally within about 150 yards of where he caught the extremely pale original male.

I pin-pointed the EXACT coordinance on google earth for extremely accurate records.

Can't get any more locality specific than THAT folks!!

Thanks a million Jim!

~Doug

Here is the original male as a young adult mating with one of the first hets he produced........

And one of the W/C adult female's he bred it to to make hets....

Here are the two morph phenotype's he later produced. There seems to be a very strong sexual dimorphism being displayed with these. The male's are substantially lighter with pink eyes, and the female's seem to be a darker phenotype with dark eyes, but still VERY different indeed!.......

Here is the awesome homozygous male I got from Jim.....

And here is the "normal" het female I scored.........

A couple "extreme" hypo Hondo's I produced this year to keep it in Lampropeltis theme.....

A killer "mahogany" colored brooks yearling I produced.....

The male "high-yellow" brooks putting the bite on the female to have his way with her..LOL!

an insanely vanished amel Hondo that is a possible hybino......

A SMOKER golden yellow brooks yearling I produced last year......

Nice green/yellow female brooks yearling I produced......

Nice yearling splendida female from Bill Brant's bloodline......

Nice hypo lavender corn breeding a locality corn I captured in Palm Bay, Florida back in 2005 as a 20 inch yearling (yours Jorge!..LOL!)

Huge double het wad-o-babies from the above breeding.....

aberrant/striped male Outer Banks wolfing down a scooby snack!..

And a BIG-ASS 44 and 3/4 inch snook I caught in the early 90's to finish off with..LOL!. I am 6' 2", so you can plainly see this is quite a MONSTER!

Thanks for looking!

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Those Obseleta's are super cool Doug! Congratulations on scoring those bro! I like all the excellent assortment in your little slide show. Especially the OTB, and the extreme hondos, and the Brooks, and ......well, all of it, ha ha!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

Thanks Jorge!,....

Glad you like that stuff too bro!. And the big snook was "off-the-chain" too, and tasted GREAT!..LOL!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Your collection is fantastic! So was the fish LOL!

Thanks man!,....that was just a few!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Not all snake lovers and people who fish are men

LOL!, for sure!, make that...."thanks wo-man!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Nice pictures Doug! I haven't sat down and taken any lately. Need to too. Need to get too much done !
Meantime....you talked me into a pair from Jim too.....I think you are pimping for him!
I have a great het male and visual female....need to get picts with a nice camera.

Also thinking out my breeding plans for this year and upcoming.

Keeping it Kingsnake....I picked up a cute female MBK from Chris Feenan at Hamburg. Now to be patient til she catches up with my boy.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Yeah, Jim told me about the folks that had any of these "moonshine" hypo's he produced, and your name certainly came up among a few select other's..LOL! . All the photos of the 'moonshine's" were taken by Jim, and he sent me pics of the awesome pair he had picked out to send me, so I posted those along with other pics he took of his nice locality group of these as well. Man!, these things are killer!, huh?

Yeah, I am sure you will enjoy your MBK too!...so congrats on that score as well as those nice "moonshine" hypos!

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

careful, you'll wind up like the alterna hyper-locality freaks
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

HAHAA!,....too funny man!

Yeah, I am all about the smallest details and all, but I don't think I will ever get anything close to THAT insanity over there!...

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

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Those snakes are Awesome. I REALLY like the desert king...The fish is cool too. All catch and release here on the bay...Dave.

>>Those snakes are Awesome. I REALLY like the desert king...The fish is cool too. All catch and release here on the bay...Dave.
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What Bay are you in?
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

Home of the world series champ GIANTS!!! Dave.

Thanks Trev, it is a sickness! But it's a good one, lol. I don't drink or smoke or anything else anymore, my addiction is snakes. I love all reptiles but there's something extra special about the snakes. Especially king snakes. Thos Alterna are smoking brother, I hope the best for you! I can't wait to maybe get some babies this next year. I have one female that's possibly gonna be large enouh to try breeding. But all of the girls stopped eating at least a month ago. I was hoping to keep pushing them till the end of Dec.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

most of mine quit early/mid october. It surprised me cause the weather was still -- nightiime lows in the 60s isn't really cold. But eh, all but one went off feed for 2 weeks running so they're all down for the season now. I figure i'll take 'em up again after christmas. It's kind of a nice break i guess but I feel lonely
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

Thanks. I too was trying to keep my females eating but no luck last two attempts...think they're done this year. Dave.