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Hello, I am new to this forum, but have been a regular reader and sometime poster on the King Snake forum, as I have a couple of Kings. I was just wondering if anyone could provide me with a picture of the type of Milk Snake that could be found in the wild in NJ, as a friend's son has just caught one recently and has brought it home (a Petco employee had advised him that it was a MIlk Snake). Is this advisable to do-to take her from the wild? A short time later, according to him, the snake produced 9 eggs, and he is wondering how to set them up so they may hatch. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jim

It is an eastern milk. There are lots of pics of these in the photo gallery. I think that that is awesome that he found a gravid female. Except for the fact that he doesn't know what to do with the eggs. There are lots of sites out there on how to incubate colubrid eggs. Check it out.
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Thank you very much, and I will check out these sites.

Jim, two types in NJ, the Eastern and the Coastal Plains. The problem is, it is illegal to collect any reptile within the state of New Jersey. And it's also illegal to release it.

Carl

put the eggs in moist(not wet) sphagnum moss in a tupper ware of some sort and punch a few hole in it for air movement.
put it on a high shelf or somewhere where the temp stays around 80to 83 degrees constant or in an incubator.
they should hatch in around 60 to 65 days at 83 degrees.
i never use an incubator, the high shelf method works great, however you must monitor the temps.
Chris
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