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The very first Southern ringneck I ever got, about 2 months ago, was really, really long, and eating just fine. I guess it was old age, but last night, the snake (There was no sign of disease,) just started to act sluggish, and today I found the body in the vivarium coiled on a rock. It looked great. I measured the snake (approximately 10 inches,) and studied it for awhile.
I figured these would be a rear-fanged species, but I was very surprised when I opened the mouth to find a large set of fangs very close to the uper lip. It has unusual, bright colors, which I also took notes of. Inside it were two undeveloped "slugs'" or unfertilized eggs. I am mounting the snake on a piece of cork with some Spanish moss, in the classic defensive corkscrew posture, and placing it in a planted vivarium, in which I keep preserved pets.
On a lighter note, the two other ringnecks are absolutely great looking. They are really, really thick, and both in the blue. Great, powerful little constrictors, that hopefully have many more years ahead of them. Based on tail comparison, I am almost sure that I have a 1.1 pair. In the summer, they should produce some nice offspring for me (The eggs should be a clue.)
I am now breeding ringnecks, earth snakes, green snakes, and other "tiny snakes." Sad news, but at the same time, the eggs made me excited about this 2005 Diadophis breeding season.

P.S. That Pine woods is doing really well!
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1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.0 Mediterranean gecko
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
1.1 Eastern ribbon snakes
1.1red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
0.1 fire salamander
1.0 scarlet kingsnake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
0.0.3 southern ringneck snakes
0.0.1 night snake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.1 Pine woods snake
0.0.2 rough earth snakes
2 (all of them are female!) Brahminy blind snakes

Oh well man, it happens. I had a nice 14" female southern ringneck, fish eater, that died while gravid. I don't know the cause of death, but from what I could visibly tell, one of the eggs got very very large before she died, she would not have been able to pass it through.

I am also highly anticipating the 2005 ringneck breeding season, last year I got 18 eggs out of 5 females, 13 hatched. I'm hoping I can find a Pittsburgh, PA locale adult male northern ringneck to pair him up with my 20" female, and hope I can get a good clutch of eggs out of her this year(last year she laid 5 eggs, 3 went bad right away, 1 lasted a little longer, and the last one didn't break open so I cut it open and found a dead baby inside). I have as of now, 1.2 southern ringneck adults, and I'm sure I'll get eggs out of them.

I'll also be pairing up my 2.2 NorthWestern Ringneck Snakes, the males are 18"-20" long, and the females are over 22". I'm hoping to get some good breeding data out of those.

Then hopefully the albino will produce more eggs, hopefully I'll have some regals to breed, I'll most likely have prairies laying eggs. It's going to be a busy busy year, just with the ringnecks alone.

Mike

Michael's Place

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