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Here is a brown snake baby. I did not even know I had a gravid momma, but she dropped 8 little ones today. These are so little they are not feasible to try and keep so I will let them go with momma where I found her.

Dan

Another comparison shot with fla king eggs. They also started to hatch moments ago. That is a little nose to the right coming out of the egg. This brown is just a bit longer than the king eggs. Holding the brown was like holding a hair.

Dan

lol, man, those things really are tiny! my brooksi will be cooled off in 07' and bred in 08', and i cant wait! but just to make sure i dont screw up with my brooks, next year during the fall i really am going to buy some brown snakes, no not babys, but bigger ones, and let them breed just so i can get the hang of all this breeding stuff. but until then, its just my one lonely female, copper.
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i have one Brooks Kingsnake, hopefully breeding in the next couple of years! yaaahhhh, only if i can find a male though lol, but im still looking for a male lol

Breeding brown snakes opposed to breeding kingsnakes is very different. Brown snakes can just be kept together in pairs, and they usually breed, and it's extremely doubtful you will see them breed. Kingsnakes, you have to be more careful with so you don't end up with one kingsnake. And you will see them mate if you stick around and watch.

Very different in sizes, diets and clutches too.

Mike
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ya, i no that they are different on almost all aspects, but i want to get experience with different things and i want to see what these little browns are like lol, other than small! though they are still different than kingsnakes, i know that it will give me some experience, or at least i will know what to think when i see somthing happening with my kings.
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i have one Brooks Kingsnake, hopefully breeding in the next couple of years! yaaahhhh, only if i can find a male though lol, but im still looking for a male lol

lol, let the brown crawl around in there. I bet one of the kings would snatch it...

Light colored brown compared to the Northerns, you could mistake them for ringnecks sometimes!
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I want one now

I bet it would take baby slugs. Makes me want to get a mate for my sharptail.

-Alice

If you want some and wish to pay the shipping, you can have two for free however I think I ought to get them fatter and feeding on chopped worms or else they would dehydrate in shipping and die. I think they would need a cool pack in the box also. I mean i cannot even pick these suckers up without almost crushing them it seems. Does your sharptail also eat worms? I may get that species one day, but I do not find small slugs to feed them, only large ones and need them to eat worms.

Dan

Dan,

Every neonate brown snake I've ever tried to ship died on the way. The only ones I could get to survive were yearlings with good weight.

Mike
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I'd really hate for the little guy to die in transit so your initial plan of releasing them is probably best.

My sharptail eats nothing but slugs. I've heard of people having success with slug scented worms and slug scented small salamanders. To scent them you put the prey item in a container full of slugs. I go out with a flashlight at night and collect slugs off my plants and I flip the stones in my garden to get the slugs underneath.

I've had my guy for over a year now. A couple of weeks ago I got to see him eat for the first time (sucked it down like a spagetti noodle). He's a very secretive guy!

-Alice