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Lets see the best of them!

This is the 4th i have caught this season. The first was found while I was mowing my backyard. They are sweet and gentle living art forms in my opinion. I have never had one attempt to bite me, although I am very cautious (debatable?). I made an very interesting observation just this evening...I put my female m.f.tenere in a 55 g tank (wrecklessly perhaps) which houses several local species including a t.cyrtopsis, patchnose, ribbonsnake and dekayi. Well all the other snakes went absolutely crazy! I couldn't believe it, I have never seen them behave in such a manner! They were desperately flailing about and trying to climb the sides of the tank! Needless to say I removed the coral quickly and eventually they calmed down. Facinating! Instinct and chemical perception I guess. Snakes never cease to amaze me. I love them all...

Disclaimer: don't do this, freehandling is dangerous, I'm an idiot, have a death wish, bad for the hobby, etc. etc. To be honest though my corn is much more aggresive (my king and garter as well). But never do this OK? Having said that, Texas Corals are wonderfully sublime, huh? Worthy of protection. Most fellow Texans kill them on sight. I guess that is safer though.

I had 2 males mate with this female. Unfortunately I gave her away before she laid. But maybe for the best since I don't have a steady supply of baby blind snakes to feed the hatchlings.

I decided to delete this pic...

This was a particularly large one about 36 inches unfortunately died when I moved to florida lol who would have thought.