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Approximately one month prior to the Daytona show earlier this year, I was contacted by an individual regarding an antiquated add, I had posted on a different forum and had simply forgotten about, offering me a group of neonate D. couperi .
Upon indicating my interest in acquiring the group, this individual informed me that the mother of this group was a wild caught specimen taken from central Florida and further described her as a 6’, red-chinned and robust specimen. The individual also inquired as to whether I would be in Daytona the following month to purchase and pick up the animals. When I mentioned the legality of such, and indicated I would not be in Daytona, but would be willing to obtain permits, should the individual not reside in FL, I was told he / she would get back to me in a couple of days. Of course, that was the last I heard from them..
During the course of this brief correspondence, the individual selling the D. couperi sent several photos, one of which I am attaching to this post.
I am simply curious as to whether anyone else was offered these specimens, knows of the origins of the photo I have posted, or was contacted by this same individual.
Also, I have a few of the other photos the individual sent, should anyone be interested in viewing such…

Best regards,

Jeff

for the size of that photo.. Here is another one, scaled down a bit, of an individual from the group offered...

Jeff

...and rumblings this year at Daytona that there was an individual trying to sell some neonate couperi, not at the show, but apparently a "motel room deal". I believe the term that was used was "Florida Red-chinned Racers", or something to that effect. My response was "I don't want to hear about it, I don't want to know about it. If I know about it, I'll just find the nearest DNR officer and let him deal with it."

My first instinct was that this was a lame attempt at a reverse sting by the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish people. If that's the best they can do, they are going to have problems catching crooks. If it really was someone trying to sell illegal animals, well....all I can say is "stupidity abounds.". The guy that was telling me about it didn't know me from Adam. I was just asking if he had seen anyone there that had any Cribos or Texans.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard a lot of these odd practices in trying to "Entrap" herpers with these kinds of shennanigans. I always thought the scumbags who collected them were the major problem, with those buying them a much lesser one.

Supposedly, collecting in FL is still going on, which is a very scary fact!
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Anthony Chodan

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