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This dione was produced by Terry Cox.

Terry Parks

That snake looks pretty dark. Is he in the shed cycle?

Here's a more recent photo of one of mine...

Did you produce any dione this year, Terry? I have a pair ready to go next spring, but don't know if I want to keep them? Later...TC.

Wow, how light colorations, can you say from where origin this specimen? I have more darker korean diones, this seems more like diones from China.
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Ivan Arinin
Tula Exotarium
ICQ 151665951
Site: www.edione.narod.ru
E.g. guttata Normal 2.3
E.g. guttata Albino 2.4
E.g. guttata Oketee 2.0
E.g. guttata Hypo Oketee 1.1
E.g. guttata Albino Okeetee 2.2
E.g. guttata Ghost 2.3
E.g. guttata Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Albino Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Anerythristic 2.2
E.g. guttata Snow 2.4
E.g. guttata Creamsicle 2.1
E.g. rosacea 2.2
E.g. emoryi 2.2

E. persica black 3.4
E. persica brown 2.1
E. longissima 4.6
E. situla 3.3
E. dione 54
E. bimaculata 4.3
E. quatourlineata 10.15

E. o. obsoleta yellow 2.2
E. o. lindheimeri White Sided 2.2.
E. o. lindheomeri Leucistic 1.2
E. o. lindheimeri Black Orange 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata 1.3
E. o. quatourlineata Deckerti 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata Williamsi 1.0
E. o. rossalleni 2.2

Langaha madagascariensis 2.1.12
Cylindrophis ruffus 0.1
Enhydris plumbea 1.0

Hello, Ivan.

I originally bought a pair of CB babies and their parents from Lloyd Lemke, who brought them back from Seoul, South Korea, back in about 1995. These are the original adults...

The picture you commented on is of a 2002 baby from the original mother and the male offspring that I purchased.

I think many of the Korean dione actually come from N. Korea which is more northerly and maybe a higher elevation. In South Korea they can be much lighter, occuring as far south as Cheju Island. Babies can be a dark or light phase in the same clutch, much like the Chinese dione. The dark tend to have reddish-brown blotches and orange highlights. The light phase tend to have light brown blotches and yellowish highlights. Terry Parks got darker specimens because there were only three females in the first clutch.

TC

>>Wow, how light colorations, can you say from where origin this specimen? I have more darker korean diones, this seems more like diones from China.
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>>Ivan Arinin

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Ratsnake Haven: South Korean Dione's ratsnake, bimaculata phases, mandarina locales, calico and hypo taeniura, leopard snakes, Great Plains ratsnakes

Yes, i think so too, our diones origin from N. Korea. I never see diones from S. Korea and this was very interesting - see its fotos. Thanks!
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Ivan Arinin
Tula Exotarium
ICQ 151665951
Site: www.edione.narod.ru
E.g. guttata Normal 2.3
E.g. guttata Albino 2.4
E.g. guttata Oketee 2.0
E.g. guttata Hypo Oketee 1.1
E.g. guttata Albino Okeetee 2.2
E.g. guttata Ghost 2.3
E.g. guttata Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Albino Motley 2.2
E.g. guttata Anerythristic 2.2
E.g. guttata Snow 2.4
E.g. guttata Creamsicle 2.1
E.g. rosacea 2.2
E.g. emoryi 2.2

E. persica black 3.4
E. persica brown 2.1
E. longissima 4.6
E. situla 3.3
E. dione 54
E. bimaculata 4.3
E. quatourlineata 10.15

E. o. obsoleta yellow 2.2
E. o. lindheimeri White Sided 2.2.
E. o. lindheomeri Leucistic 1.2
E. o. lindheimeri Black Orange 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata 1.3
E. o. quatourlineata Deckerti 2.2
E. o. quatourlineata Williamsi 1.0
E. o. rossalleni 2.2

Langaha madagascariensis 2.1.12
Cylindrophis ruffus 0.1
Enhydris plumbea 1.0

Hello,

I am still looking for Elaphe Dione Korean females.
I now have CB (2,0) Elaphe Dione Korean. So if you (Terry P & Terry C.)coming over to Amsterdam. Please take som with you. I will be glad

My Dione collection is still growing. Soon I hope to become some Tenebrosa as well.
http://www.elaphedione.com/Diones/diones pictures.htm

Greeting Wim
Dione site

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Greeting from Wim (www.elaphedione.nl), Amsterdam.

Hi, Wim.

Maybe, if we are lucky, one of us can come to Europe someday. Good luck with your collection.

TC

>>Hello,
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>>I am still looking for Elaphe Dione Korean females.
>>I now have CB (2,0) Elaphe Dione Korean. So if you (Terry P & Terry C.)coming over to Amsterdam. Please take som with you. I will be glad
>>
>>My Dione collection is still growing. Soon I hope to become some Tenebrosa as well.
>>http://www.elaphedione.com/Diones/diones pictures.htm
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>>Greeting Wim
>>Dione site
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>>Greeting from Wim (www.elaphedione.nl), Amsterdam.