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This is also a new one in my collection. These greet looking radiata's are smaler than the "normal" radiata's and even better they are much better to handle. They don't bite very quikly and in the hands they will crawl over your arm. They are not aggressive at all.
These are also from Vietnam, SA PA N-Vietnam. The hatchlings are brown but when they grow to 60-80 cm they will turn there colour into bright yellow. The males wil be yellow- brown. Not so bright as the females.

These radiata is a natural colour- morph. In the wild there are some almost white to light beige to (most of them) different tones of yellow. All these colour-morphs have the black stripes.

So Terry, did you know about these yellow ones?

Thanks for replies and i try to keep up the good work. Do you also??

Kind regards.

Your situla and prasina there are especially pretty.
Regards
John

I love this locality of radiata, are they from Dr. Fesser bloodline?
You have wonderful snakes
regards
nazzza

Jan, thanks for the picture and info about the Vietnamese radiata. I did not know about them, and the yellow color is pretty awesome. Do you know their maximum size? I think radiata might be a snake of the tropical rainforest.

Your collection is getting larger than mine. I've been cutting back. Mostly I'm working with dione, bimaculata, Chinese beauty snakes, and mandarina. I'm still interested in natural history, etc, of Old World ratsnakes, but I can't afford to have so many species anymore. I've been adding a few Great Plains rats, corn snakes, and a couple kings to my collection the last few years. Once I move to the Southwestern U.S., I'll probably keep mostly snakes I can work with in the field too.

Check the link to my gallery for my latest photos.

Best luck...TC

Ratsnake Haven

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Ratsnake Haven: Calico and hypo Chinese beauty snakes, Mandarin ratsnakes, Chinese twin-spotted ratsnakes, South Korean Dione's ratsnake, Great Plains ratsnakes and corns