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I finally located that nice DOR corn I found here that one night. It's coloration was really unique. So sad that it was dead when I found it.

And here are a pair of Yellow Rats I found on the mainland where I used to live about 9 miles inland which was very far out in a wooded neighborhood. This is just after I caught it in the back yard at like 41 inches, very thin and and only 97 grams. The dogs had it circled at night and were all barking big-time, so I went out with a flashlight to see what all the comotion was and it was and saw it all "S' up trying to defend itself from the dogs.

Here he is much later on being well cared for at around 800 grams.

Here is a female Yellow Rat I captured at my moms friends house about 8 miles south of the other one.

Here is a nice little cornsnake yearling I captured across the street from my old house where I found the male Yellow Rat in a big orange tree.

Here she is a good while later as a nice adult. Man, she dropped a whopping clutch of 35 good eggs here first breeding!..LOL! Jorge has this big female now, and we refer to her as "Big Bertha"..

Here she is dwarfing the male.

Here are some of her kids she had after being bred to my lavender het hypo male.

This is the very same hatchling snake in the above photo a while later as it matured more.......just unreal how they can color up!.

Some more Black Racers found just a few feet from where the male yellow Rat was found.

one found on the other side of the house. I watched this one crawl past me and go up into a small bush, then heard a bunch of ruckus and it fell to the ground with a brown anole in it's mouth..LOL!!

Another one bolting off into the woods on the other side of the fence.

Anyway, I found a cool little Pine Woods Snake ((Rhadinaea flavilata) in the wooded lot next door inside a rotted log during the winter, a bunch of awesome looking DOR corns on the road leading out of the neighborhood, a HUUUGE very pink colored coachwhip, and a DOR coral snake in this neighborhood as well wen I lived for only a few years. It was a pretty productive area without ever even trying to find stuff..LOL!

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

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nice photos
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Doug L

Awesome series there Doug!!! Those yellow rats are so nice and look to be VERY well cared for these days. The dor corn did have a different color and what a shame it got crushed. Now, I DIG the photos of BIG Bertha and the changes of her, and her babies. WOW, what a difference from hatching to adulthood. That is the kind of stuff I love about some snakes and makes keeping them such a joy. (well, that and watching eggs hatch ) I can't believe she laid 35 eggs. Wonder what the record for eggs from a corn is? anyone know?

Joe

Thanks bud. I knew you would appreciate some of those.

It would be interesting to know exactly what the maximum recorded number of viable eggs in a cornsnake clutch ever was. She even had about 6 or 8 duds she laid prior to the good eggs. It was just insane like she had eggs stacked all the way up to her neck like a high-capacity rifle magazine..

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

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Thanks Dougie!

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

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Those yellow rat snakes are wonderful! The corns are nice, too. How neat you can find all these treasures where you live!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Yeah, Bob.....Florida definitely has some treasures to be had.

I sure wish I could stumble upon a Florida king like in Gerard's post above though..LOL!..just an incredible mutant!!

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

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Those are so cool, Doug. I didn't even know those baby Corns changed to a bright orange. I've always seen them and wondered why I didn't see adults like that. lol
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Yeah, corns can typically change so drastically as they mature from what they look like as hachlings it isn't even funny.

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

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I like the look of the Yellow Rats in your neighborhood, Doug.
Do you have plans to breed those?

Here's a Miami Corn from 2006 that dropped 38 eggs for me (not all were good).

Nice post!

Tim

Third Eye Herp

Thanks, Tim.....geeez!, that Miami corn is just stunning man!. Love the classic Miami coloration and intermittent zig-zags there..

Yeah, I captured that really nice yellow male many years ago, and unfortunately it died a couple years ago seemingly out of the blue. So I didn't have plans on getting another male and I let the female go very close to where she was originally found.

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Tim, congrats! That is a stunning Miami corn.....Is it plain Jane or is it het for something??? Hard to find just plain ole Miami corns now.....
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I've been searching for some nice yellows like that for a while. Seems all the ones I come across are either orange, or tannish in color.
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Disclaimer: I do keep several snakes in pairs, and some in groups. However I realize that things can go wrong, and I have to keep a close eye on those groups, to be sure they are not being adversely affected by these living conditions. Also if one happens to eat it's cagemate, it is 100% my fault, and I know the risks in advance!

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