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striped southern copperhead

erk Jun 03, 2003 07:26 PM

Does anyone know of any others? This one is wildcaught from Louisiana.
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Replies (20)

tj Jun 04, 2003 05:55 AM

That's incredible, if you sell it, PLEASE let me know.
-tom

meretseger Jun 04, 2003 01:26 PM

Or if you breed it. Let us know about that too.
Even proven lines of striped snakes aren't striped like THAT, that's amazing.

erk Jun 04, 2003 06:37 PM

The snake actually belongs to a friend of mine, she was gravid when she was caught and had five babies, he sold 2 of the babies and I don't believe those 2 made it. The other 3 he still has and they are near full grown now, I believe they are 2 years old now. All the babies are normal looking.
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kottonmouthking Jun 05, 2003 01:24 AM

n/p

meretseger Jun 05, 2003 05:57 PM

Breed the babies together or breed one of the babies back to the striped parent, I bet you a dollar that half of the resulting offspring will be striped and then we can buy them off your friend for the large amount of money that they're obviously worth :D.

kottonmouthking Jun 05, 2003 06:14 PM

There are so few copperhead morphs and rarely seen. I couldn't even make an eduacted guess. Can anyone else? I know I'd love to have some. At the very least, one. By the way, did anyone see the "hypo" southerns on the classifieds the other day? I had like 4 from Alabama last year that looked just like that. Just wondering. They didn't look like anything special to me.

meretseger Jun 06, 2003 01:09 PM

I don't know... albino rattlesnakes are worth at least 400$ and they're pretty easy to get, I think this one would be worth more in the beginning.

snakeskin Jun 04, 2003 12:49 PM

What an extreme beauty *sigh*

Hope some of those incredible snakes in the US ever come over to europe..

Bye,

Peter

NVENOM8 Jun 06, 2003 01:04 AM

Whew!!! That's a nice animal!

SRX Jun 10, 2003 10:16 AM

These photos are from Chris Harper of the SHHS. Neat Copperhead also.

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SRX Jun 10, 2003 10:17 AM

Here is another. The original post is on the Venomous forum.
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erk Jun 10, 2003 02:52 PM

Man that thing is just wierd looking....very cool. Almost resembles the pattern on a granite burmese python. Where did he get that from? Do you know what subspecies it is?
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GatorGal Jun 16, 2003 02:48 PM

>>These photos are from Chris Harper of the SHHS. Neat Copperhead also.
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erk Jun 16, 2003 08:33 PM

The striped copperhead I posted is a southern copperhead.

GatorGal Jun 16, 2003 09:46 PM

>>The striped copperhead I posted is a southern copperhead.

SRX Jun 17, 2003 07:51 PM

Chris Harper at the SHHS. I believe the snake belongs to him.

Jolliff Jul 27, 2003 12:38 AM

Beautiful, huh? Even more amazing in person....

Jared w Aug 18, 2003 01:31 AM

I have seen striped northerns and southerns, I currently have a partially (over 80%)striped osage. I like um all, nice snakes

Jared

reptilefreak19 Jun 16, 2003 02:22 AM

Here's a scanned pic of a Patternless Osage copperhead.

snakum Jun 17, 2003 08:24 AM

Wow ... unbelievable!

There's a guy near me who sorta' specializes in Agkistrodons, and he has a Southern (I think) with longitudinal stripes on the first quarter of the body. That's the only other copper morph I've seen.

If he is agreable, I'd be glad to take some pics of it and post here.

Phil

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