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I only get my full of herps these days from what I come across in the field. I recall having some very large kings. Largest being some GA chains. Any of you have pics of some that you would consider large you would like to post?

Here's an older photo of one of my large "high-yellow" floridana when he was 67" and 4 lbs. at 3 plus years old. I'm sure he is a few more inches longer now.

Her is the sibling breeder female to the one above when she was quite gravid a couple years ago. She is pretty darn large for a female.

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Now this is what I'm talking about. Was hoping someone would post large Floridana. Excellent. I kept some paler South Florida kings a while back that became massive for their type. Your high yellows though are exceptionally nice.

Thanks Rich. Agreed, tough to beat impressive-sized getula! Hope to see you at Daytona soon.

~Doug
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Doug, I stopped doing shows 8 years ago. Actually stopped keeping 6 years ago. I may start again when I retire but for now, I like to hit the field. We never bring any herps home.

Brings me to something else though. For years we have (wife and I)been hitting the wild tracking many mammals and such which puts us on too reptiles all the time. We have hoped to come across some NE Florida kings. I kept a small breeding group of these in the late 90's.

Unlike our annual hikes into the ANF where we come across kings now pretty regularly we have never come across any here in Jacksonville, FL. That was until this season when someone put us on to an area (protected) where we are now coming across a few.

They look just like the photo of you Outer Banks king in the black water bowl. How old is this snake of yours and would you have a full body pic.

Big plus for us on these kings still being in our area. I have posted in this very forum, as well as asked many of the newer, younger Florida herpers and yet not one of these guys in over 5 years as come up with one either.

I'll get some pics to you in the near future. I never bring cameras but my wife does.

Sounds good. I'll look forward to seeing some of those pics of some wild specimens. It sounds like you may have seen a few "Osceola-Suwanee" morph intergrades(getula x floridana). Good examples are very impressive looking. The Duval County area is known for having some very interesting looking specimens, such as the one Kevin Enge had years ago in Hubbs' "Common Kingsnake" book. But apparently the REALLY striking specimens are said to be very few and far between.

Here is a mediocre full-body shot of the one female L.g.sticticeps you asked about along with the classic-patterned male breeding a couple years back.

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This older photo of one of my breeder aberrant/striped Outer Banks king (L.g.sticticeps) is quite large now too. The classic-patterned female is as well for that matter.

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

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Very good follow up. Never worked with these. Is there much difference in size between these and the individuals on mainland?

Very very beautiful!!!

My pyro Zunchara this spring with one of her '12 hatchlings. Zunchara weighs 410 grams now.
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Bob
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Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Cool, I never have worked with these. Don't know the reason though off hand. Glad to see posts here. Ratsnake and Pituophis Forums are flat on this topic. Kingsnake forums lose some of their followers or is it all in the BP forums these days?

An old Cal King I used to have. It was 13 years old in the pic (raised it from a baby) & was somewhere legitimately north of 5' at that point

Yeah, I had forgotten how large Coastals could get. Whole mess of those at one time in our collection. Never will forget the musk smell from them even to this day hahahaha.

Here is one I saw years ago at NRBE when it was in Orlando. Not my snake.

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