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Do you name your snakes? LOL

I love the pics of your collection.

Here's my cute little "Shawnee king" I collected from Southern Illinois this fall, probably will turn out looking more speckled. Kinda drab now, but will be a looker in a year or two. To me, this is my favorite snake in my (small) collection. She is still tiny, but has an attitude like I've never seen! I can't do anything w/o getting bit, although she stopped musking and pooping on me!

See ya

Matt

I name some but not all, i have too many.
That's a little looker you have, i'd like to see more nigra in collections.

nm

shed minutes b/4 being fed,lol!

For what its worth I have noticed there is a high tendency for the more heavily patterned nigra to be much more defensive on average than those populations that have little or no pattern. It could be coincidence, but I have seen these traits in many boldly patterned black kings but only rarely in the others.

Phil