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How about everyone who stops in here just post a pic of your cal king.

I'll start us off.

Here is a hypo from Gerold Merkers line.

As a hatchling...

At six months...

they lighten up fast. She is two now, and light purple. hopefully will breed this year for the first time

more pics to come

Very beautiful! Keep us posted if she breeds... I'd love to see those hatchlings.

I'll post an old picture of Lizzie... Still hoping to find her, but at least I've learned to make certain I have a secure lid and that I don't leave it off for any length of time. Not sure exactly how she got out, but I'll cover all bases with the future snakes.

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Holly

0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake possible mix (Eddie Gein)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charley Manson)
1.0 Orange Marmalade Cat (Oliver)
1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan)

2.0 Toddlers (Justice & Trevor)

Too bad you lost that snake, Holly. I remember when Mike F. was selling it. It had a nice aberrant pattern. I've lost some kings that really meant a lot to me also. I'm sure you'll find another lavender that you'll just go crazy over some day.

I still have hopes that she'll turn up. I miss her like crazy. The inverted-top soda bottle suggestion is now being used in my closet. I've got to get some more bottles so that I can set a couple more around the house, and maybe, just maybe, check the attic in case she managed to squirm her way up there. I still have hopes. It's entirely possible that she managed to get outside, but as cold as it was shortly after she escaped, I don't think she would have left the house immediately.

There's always hope. Hope that she didn't dehydrate, hope that she's located some anoles in the house or a bug or two and managed to feed a little, hope that maybe she did go into brumation and she'll emerge soon, since the house is warming back up a lot.
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Holly

0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake possible mix (Eddie Gein)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charley Manson)
1.0 Orange Marmalade Cat (Oliver)
1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan)

2.0 Toddlers (Justice & Trevor)

Yeah, you never know, she might still turn up somewhere.

Here is a yearling female coastal spotted

Her and her mate, a desert phase spotted from renegade's line

interesting spotted juvi

Love the pattern on that king. It looks a little like the partially aberrant desert striped Cal king I bought last year.

Morse... that snake should be named "Morse".... ^_^
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Holly

0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake (Eddie Gein)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charley Manson)
1.0 Orange Marmalade Cat (Oliver)
1.0 Black Cat (Shadowfax)
1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan)
1.0 Tennessee Walking Horse (Durango)

2.0 Toddlers (Justice & Trevor)

Now she is over 5 feet and eats chicks.

And apparently thinks she is arboreal...

Wow, those spotted Cal kings are just awesome!

As a yearling...

Gravid...

Laying her first clutch...

Nice high band count coastal

The only snake I ever tried to feed in hand. He obviously doesn't care.

My ode to JETZEN...

here he is at 15 (now almost 17)

breeding pic of wishbone and eve
Pic of wishbone-high white reverse spot Alone this time

Pic of eve- albino stripe- also alone this time
pic of speckle
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pic of skunky!!

pic of dweezil!

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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

That spotted one is awesome!

THANKS!! i've had alot of comments on her so far this year... She was actually a freebie from a friend of mine. When she was a lil baby she had blue eyes. her mother had blue eyes too. So i was hoping it would show up in future breedings
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

Great looking kings, Steve. I especially like those aberrants!

It's too bad this forum gets little play, Cal kings are my favorite snakes. Nice pictures guys! Here's a banded hypermelanistic Cal king from L.A. Co. These are always cool to find because they represent a very small percentage of the population.

In 2005 I found a Cal king on Whitewater Rd. that was very light for the area. This snake was a juvenile at the time of the photo and shouldn't even be this light as an adult from the area. A few years before, me and some friends found a 54" king from the same area that was still a lot darker than this king. I won't consider it hypo until I prove it out, but until then I'm calling it a possible hypo. In person the snake seems to have a slight transparent look in the brown.

Last year the drought was so bad in the areas I usually look for kings (L.A. & Riverside) that I was forced to try an area that received more moisture, San Diego. I've found striped kings in riverside but never in S.D. My goal was to find my first S.D. striped king. I lucked out by finding it on my first trip to the area.

The box he was found under.

As found.

In hand for size comparison.

Striped kings are common in S.D. but because it was my first time hunting the area, I felt like I had found a Newport phase! I returned to the spot later and found a nice looking banded juvenile. There are some nice looking kings down that way.

Here's an L.A. Co. Newport phase.

Interesting colors!!! looks faded in a way
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

Yeah, the Newport was faded. It was an older individual.

i would just die if i found a striped king!!! i bought mine
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

Thanks Steve, I feel lucky to live here. A lot of herpers that live in this are are more into other kinds of snakes, and don't seek out the awesome Cal kings. They truly don't know what they're missing. lol

Those are some awesome cal kings!! I also like the Grease King Pics in the previous post. I miss Cali!! Dave

looks almost lavender!! very nice!!
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

is that its a hypo. I know what you mean about how the brown looks different.

Yeah, every time I take him out of his cage he seems to have that look to him. Maybe it's just my imagination. lol Here's a close up.

Yeah, even the lightest coastals have more of a dark hue to the brown.

Awesome is that a "Grease King"Cal King phase? Very cool snake and great pics!! Dave

Yes, Grease king is another name that has been used to describe them. Thanks.

Hello Ross I was just curious if many of the Washboard phase or granite phase high speckled cal kings have been found in SD. Are they as rare as people say they are? Dave

Hi Dave, the morph your talking about is actually found up north. I think they are considered a type of hypo and are not very common as you mentioned. S.D. has hypo's but they look different. The original blue eyed blond hypo morph was collected in S.D. Co. There's also an extremely light phase from S.D. Co. that looks hypo, but many consider the light color a part of the variation out there. You can find Cal kings with all sorts of shades of brown. Here's the real light phase I was talking about.

That snake is beautiful. I see stripes of vanilla in that chocolate pudding.
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Holly

0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake possible mix (Eddie Gein)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charley Manson)
1.0 Orange Marmalade Cat (Oliver)
1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan)

2.0 Toddlers (Justice & Trevor)

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Here's my six-year old normal banded Cal king.

20 month old reverse spotted female

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1.0 aberrant cal. king
0.1 reverse spotted cal. king

Those are cool!

Sounds like a good idea. This is a bad fuzzy pic of my Chatsworth Cal King.

reako45

Here's one of my Malibu(Santa Monica Mtn) girl.

reako45

Hey Reako45, Did you find that king in those hills that are north and west of Chatsworth? It looks more like a desert phase than a coastal. Your Malibu king is pure coastal. It's hard to tell from your picture, but is it more less in between a coastal and desert phase? Cool snakes!

Ross, I sent you a pm about where he's from.

reako45

Thanks man. It just goes to show the name "coastal" has nothing to do with the habitat type that phase prefers to live in. Just like the fact you can find black and white kings in northern Ca far away from any desert. Kingsnakes tend to be kind of rare in the type of habitat you showed me. I started off herping in similar habitat in Riverside and never found more than 3 a year in those spots. One year I set up a board line near the coast. The first time I flipped 4 kings there was a surprise to me. Now it's expected. lol And even when setting up boardlines near the coast, some spots are better than others. It even comes down to different soil types and types of vegetation they're set up in. Grassy areas are real nice. If I get some free time, I'll have to shoot up there. Maybe not because I have a bunch of new spots I really want to hit this spring. They'll probably take up a lot of my free time. There's always road cruising in the high desert though. If you pay for "all" the gas I'll be willing to take you along. LOL j/k Talk to you later.

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Okay Here I go. First is my Newest addition. a little male aberrant that is High Yellow


Here is another pic with all three of my Juvies to compare the yellow coloration to my High white aberrant female and my banded male





Then there are My Adults..
First off my High White Aberrant Female


Then my Striped Female


Then My Banded Male


These are just my Cal Kings...

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1.0.0 Lampropeltis getulus californiae Adult(Banded, Coastal Phase)
1.0.0 Lampropeltis getulus californiae baby(Banded, Desert Phase)
0.1.0 Lampropeltis getulus californiae Striped (San Diego Phase)
0.1.0 Lampropeltis getulus californiae Adult Aberrant (High White)
0.1.0 Lampropeltis getulus californiae Baby Aberrant (High White)
1.0.0 Lampropeltis getulus californiae Baby Aberrant (High Yellow)
1.1.0 Lichanura trivirgata roseofusca
0.0.1 Pituophis catenifer annectens
1.0.0 Hydrodynastes Gigas False Water Cobra
0.0.2 Thamnophis sirtalis Canadian Common garter Snake
0.0.1 Tupinambis teguixin Columbain Tegu
0.0.1 Varanus exanthematicus Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Eublepharis macularius Pastel Leopard Gecko
1.1.0 Gopherus agassizii California Desert Tortoises
2.1.0 Trachemys scripta elegans Red Eared Sliders
1.1.0 Mustela putorius furo Ferrets
1.0.0 Nymphicus hollandicus White faced Cockatiel
0.1.0 Nymphicus hollandicus Albino Cockatiel
0.2.0 Mini Rex rabbits
0.1.0 American Bulldog

That tub of all three is sweet.