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I've started work in Georgia and will take possesion of a house soon.

It's in North GA, about 25 miles north of Alpharetta, reasonably close to Lake Lanier.

I've found a few sites that show what to expect in terms of herps, but I've gotten conflicting reports from actual locals on what will be there. So Question #1:

- Anyone have first hand knowledge of what they've found with regularity up that way?

Item #2. I understand my Corns are illegal there despite having done the captive breeding from captive parents myself. Fine. I'll play along. I've found good homes for all 4 and they won't come with. My question is:

- What colubrid snake can I own? I've emailed the GA DNR and they aren't real responsive. (Which makes me think that if they can't answer an email they probably never would have found out about my corns, duh) Anyway, the link on this thread lists out a GA no no list but I want to make 100% sure it would be ok to own .........say a Cal King... Anybody know for sure?

Thanks!
Georgia No No list

i believe there is a ban on possesing any endemic native species of the state, or should i say genus. like Eastern Kings and Corns.but Floridani and Californiae would be acceptable captives?take a run on this one Rainer.The boys w/ the green suits and blue flashing lights must have way to much free time to enforce this but its the law . thanks Ga.law makers

Yes. I seriously doubt they would have found out about my 4 beautiful corns but I'll play by the rules. Sad to see them go.

I'm glad to read your thoughts because those are pretty much mine. I've never been into kings but looks like that's my safest option. I understand they aren't quite as docile as the corns but...close enough. I do enjoy the look of the 50/50 cals and the Cals with Yellow banding.

The thing that makes me wonder though is that on that site I gave, they list specific kings you can't have but they just throw all Milksnakes into one group. Wouldn't it be hard for a Honduran Milk to be "local" to Georgia? I'd think so but they apparently ban them all??? Wanted to make sure it wasn't the same with Kings.

Any nonvenomous species native to GA is illegal to keep. You can keep all the venomous species. A Cal King is not native to GA so you are allowed to own it in the state.

I'll leave the hots alone and where they belong but, if true, that's a strange law.

What kind of place am I moving to where I could own a cottonmouth but not a candy cane corn? haha!

You're moving to a place where Rattlesnake Roundups still exist. I imagine that is why the law is so strange.

any herp. that lives in ga. can not
be kept. you can get a very large fine.
and they will charge you with a mismeaner.
the laws here in ga. are very sorry you cant
even keep man made colors like in the corn snakes
the DNR want even let you keep a snow corn. they dont care if snow corns dont live in the wild.

Anything I'm likely to see way more of up north?

....and to keep this related to kings, I do plan on getting some flavor of Cal King.