Im a huge fan of locality Kings. I love the morphs as well but something about a F1 locale animal thats really cool. Of course there are a few locality morphs out there like the PB Brooksi. I will eventually get some of those and the Jellies! Well im getting of my topic here so I just wanted to share a pic of a locality Florida Kingsnake. Ive shown the F1 Hillsborough Kings and here is my Dade Co. Florida King. His parents were collected from an area in northern Dade just off US41. He is a 2009 yearling and was produced by Nick Mesa(Foxturtle). He just shed tonight and looks awesome. He has very little yellow and he almost looks like a Pinellas Co. King. Its interesting how a King thats parents came from an area not very far from where typical "Brooksi" are found can be so dark. I mean he is dark even by regular Floridana standards as are his parents. Well here he is thanks for looking.
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Locality Kingsnakes- "Black Brooksi"
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Beautiful snake! I really like those.
That thing is sick!
I wish I still had her....
On another side of the Bay...this is what I was working with from our Hillsborough line Bill S. originally dubbed "mahogany" kings.
I kept them going for a while too.As yearlings/juvies, they were really beautiful snakes...
(bad scan of a bad pic)
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!
I'm glad to see he went to someone who appreciates him!
He came from a clutch that was laid during the same season the female was captured, so he may be a fully wild-bred snake. My male did copulate with her before she produced a clutch, but that doesn't mean he fertilized it. I had 2 other WC females from the canefields that same season that produced clutches that were obviously fertilized in the wild, even though they copulated with a different male in captivity.
Very nice! This is the type I'm used to catching, or did catch anyway, when I lived in Dade County. But I'm not sure why your calling it a Black Brooksi?
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It was a named referenced a couple years back in regards to the adults. I think its more a joke than a description since its exactly opposite of what some consider a Brooksi hence the title "Black Brooksi".
Bone
>>It was a named referenced a couple years back in regards to the adults. I think its more a joke than a description since its exactly opposite of what some consider a Brooksi hence the title "Black Brooksi".
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>>Bone
Ah ok that makes sense, yeah it is the opposite of a Brooks, lol.
I wish I would have kept some of the ones I caught personally. I will probably never get a chance to go back there and catch more. Last time I was down there we had gotten chased off by the workers. They have gotten wise about people taking their kings and they want to keep the kings since kings eat rattle snakes!
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