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I am looking for people involved in the captive breeding of Louisiana Milk Snakes (Lampropeltis triangulum amaura). I am looking to start a breeding project and wanted to know if any captive born specimens exist.

Thanks,
Daniel

I bred them once and I bred them with another guy once. I have also tried to keep babies that I found. They are a pain as they are really small hatchlings.

I generally gave my hatchlings away to anyone who was willing to try and get them feeding on anything other than small ground skinks. They readily eat ground skinks, but getting them to take even the smallest pinkie is a real challenge. I gave up on them.

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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

I have a wild caught male.
I am trying to find a mate from the same locality.
That is all I have. I don't know of anyone else who has them.
Only people who have had them.
sorry,
-daniel

I had got a trio a couple years ago consisting of ana dult het-anery male,and a hatchling anery and het-anery females.The adult male was great. Ate f/t large fuzzys everytime.The hatchlings now,that was a bit difficult,I'll take baby mtn.kings anyday over those little la.milks. I was sent a couple ground skinks with them,they took them easy.Once I was out though,it was no go with anything I tried.Even baby fence lizards were of no interest for them. I was forcing fuzzy tails down them for a little while.I ended up loosing the babys-(was pretty bummed). Sold the adult male after that.I wouldnt mind trying them again in the future though sometime.great little snakes with neat patterns.The little anery i had was really neat looking.Although,the baby het-anery I liked most. They were the smallest milks i've ever kept so far too.
jeff teel

Did you ever try snakes on the little one?

I had an adult female that took mice with no problems.. Lost her to one of my many epidemics this year. But I was going to try and get a male and breed them. Wasn't sure if they would take snakes or not, ground skinks are a pain to get a hold of in quality numbers.

Anery LA milks are awesome though....
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
www.freewebs.com/badyear2005

Thanks for the replies.

At least, it is good to hear of a few problems associated with keeping them instead of having to figure that out on my own. That will help in the planning of the project. Now I just need to get my hands on some nice specimens to get everything started.