Dave asked why I've been so active on here over the last month, and the reason is is that I'm trying to take photos of all of my snakes for an eventual website. Luckily, my wife is studying web design and she wants to make her main project my website. So, my main job now is snapping decent enough photos for my eventual website. Okay, so I think we're on post #3 now for the milk forum, so without further ado, here's some more milks and a few closely related cousins.
Coastal plains milk snakes are pretty much my favorite NA milk, and the Atlantic Co., NJ, critters are simply magnificent. This is a captive-bred male produced by a friend here in CA.
Here's a 2010 female Osbourne Co., KS, gentilis. From the first day she was gifted to me she took live pinks; so in the interest of not messing with a good thing, f/t pinks have never been offered. I realize she'll tip-up some more in her white, but even then I think she'll still be stunning.
Another Kansas gentiles, but this time it's my Ellsworth Co. male. He and his girl produced 0.4 stunning little worms this year.
Now how about a mole king? This is my two year-old male from Leon Co. FL. He's just now really beginning to develop his reds, and in a few years he should be striking!
Here's his mate. They're both over two feet, so next year they should breed with no problem.
This little red was hatched out in 2010 by one of our awesome forum members and it's simply one of the most stunning reds I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I remember the first time I saw her picture that I immediately commented on how perfect her banding was.
Here's a cool adult Powder River Co., MT, pale milk. Cole told me they tip up...he wasn't lying! Haha.
Here's two different lines of honey corn snake. Honeys are the product of three recessive genes at two loci - amelanistic and ultra at one locus (ultramel) and caramel at another.
Mike Fedzen...these next six are for you!
My favorite pinband, a stunning 2010 female from Dave Niles. Thanks again Dave, she's killer!
The next two are a male and female from Pete at Hot Snakes 2 Go. He's got some great snakes too!
I picked up this male from Dave Niles back in 2009, and he'll be the eventual mate for the female I posted above that I got from Dave.
This is a 2009 apricot pair I purchased from Tom Eisle. Holy crap these things might be my favorite annulata in my collection. Technically, you could even call these pinband! The male...
...and the female.
Too much milk, how about some zonata? Here's my perfect little girl from Tuolumne Co. I'm in love.
Jeff Hardwick has awesome pale stock too. Here's a pair from his Cherry Co., NE, blaze line. The male...
...and his ugly mate.
I don't think we can ever see enough taylori, so here's my largest male, and at a whopping 15 inches, he should be large enough to breed next year.
Dell was gracious enough to send some Weld Co., Co, gentilis my way in 2009. I've worked hard to get them to size quickly, and they should go next year. The male is awesome...and a di$%!!!
Here's my super-chill Weld Co. female.
The sunkissed gene in corn snakes acts as a pattern modifier and is hypomelanistic too. Here's a 2011 sunkissed bloodred male.
Dave, I posted my male black phase mex-mex last time, so here's the female.
I also have a generic pair of mole kings. Generic or not, I love these things. Here's my three year male.
This 2009 Santa Barbara zonata is nowhere near breeding size, and waiting is torture!
Black Gap celaenops anyone? Here's my male.
I'm working with two distinct lines of Johnson Co., IL, syspila. Here's one of my adult males and one of the hatchlings he sired this year.
Generally, I'm not too big of a fan when it comes to albinos, but this saffron corn snake (amelanistic + caramel + sunkissed) is an exception I'll happily make. He's so bright that getting his colors is hard, but this photo is dead-on.
Eastern milks are cool snakes, and this female from Westchester Co., NY, is no slouch. I love how dark, but crisp her pattern is.
Phantom? Phantom corn (charcoal + hypomelanistic) snake anyone?
I think I'll finish with a stunning pair of Baltimore Co., MD, eastern milk snakes. These two are almost three years old and have a ton of red still. Here's the male.
...and the female. Btw, I hate photographing eastern milks, they refuse to sit still!
Thanks for looking again, everyone!
Mitch
