Hi Everyone,
Today the three snakes came, and I opened and inspected the shipment upon arrival. Looks like two Western worm snakes and a Northern brown. The worm snakes are amazing. They are difficult to care for, and hate being handled, so I just let them crawl into the vivarium, and left them alone. Beautiful, irridescent, shiny blue above, with a flattened, hot pink venter with a transluscent cast to it.
The DeKay is the fattest I have ever sen. It has GOT to be gravid! All the way from it's bloated tail, right up to it's neck, it is absolutely gigantic. The thing is so huge that you cannot even believe it. It's SO heavy for a little snake too! You can see bulges where the tiny amniotic sacs are. Very fat snake, and due any day. It is also the most odd brown snake that I have ever seen. It is completely patternless. It has no markings whatsover, and is an entirely light brown color. I have confirmed that it is indeed a brown snake, but at fist glance, it looks like a smooth earth snake.
It is a giganic small snake, with a very yellowish venter, and a completely brown/gray dorsal. It's head is also much smaller than other brown snake heads that I have seen, but that is what I have- a Storerea. Still, I have never seen any other snake in this genus like it.
I call this morph... "Mocha Madness!"
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DAVE
1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
0.1 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
1.2 fire salamanders
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes
0.0.2 Western hooknose snakes
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.1.1 Northern brown snakes
0.0.2 Western/ Midwestern worm snake intergrades
