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Hi,

I know Michael works with the southerns, and that he and others work with the larger western subspecies, but is anyone else working with the smaller, eastern subspecies - northern, southern, and I guess prairie and mississippi?

Cheers,
Billy
Phillyherping

Hey,

I am working on breeding the prairies right now. I have a very healthy sexed pair in a nice large vivarium. The larger one is actually an intergrade between a prairie and regal, and measures about 18 inches long. I am going to brumate them in November. I have a nice incubator... and I'm excited!
Below is a picture of one of my Southerns... don't have any of those right now.

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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
1.0 scarlet kingsnake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
0.1 Southern ringneck snakes
1.0 Florida scarletsnake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.0.1 Northern brown snake
0.0.1 Smooth earth snake
0.0.2 Western worm snakes
"And tons of garters and ribbons are being born in the reptile room this very minute..."

I used to work with the northern, prairie and southern ringneck snakes on a yearly basis. This year I've only had a few northerns, no prairies and a bunch of southern ringnecks. I've got somewhere around a dozen southerns right now, one of them laid 4 eggs the other day, and still has 1 in her.

I'll be working with the prairie ringnecks next year... Never worked with the mississippi ringnecks.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
Helmz777@aol.com
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
Updated 9/19 NEW PICS/INFO

Thanks for the replies, guys,

I'm curious about those southerns and prairies. I guess Spring is the time to be looking, but I have been kicking around the idea of getting groups of the southerns and the prairies myself.

Mike - good luck with the eggs. BTW, do you ever make it into central PA for herping?

Billy
Phillyherping

I personally recommend the southern ringnecks dude. They are easier to keep in groups, and readily eat feeder fish from a bowl. They also easily switch over to mice. Prairies prefer salamanders or worms.

I rarely make herping trips around my area lol... And if I do go herping away from my area I travel more west than east.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
Helmz777@aol.com
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
Updated 9/19 NEW PICS/INFO

I myself am all about the worms. If southerns can be switched to worms, and prairies will take worms, then I've got no complaints with either. In the parks near where I live in Philadelphia, I find so many of the really huge nightcrawlers (all of which are exotic invasive species from Europe and China, by the way, so I have no problem collecting them from the wild) that I could feed hordes of worm-eating small snakes. My problem with the northerns is they really want the salamanders, and the same was true for a southern I caught nearbye and that I let go after trying to switch.

For what it's worth, I'm going to be exploring more in the Wildlife Management Areas in NE and Central PA - basically within a 1.5 hour radius of Philly.

Cheers,
Billy
Phillyherping