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South Korean Elaphe dione...

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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Beautiful animals, Toby! I really love that first shot...cool color & head pattern.
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Carl

Thanks Carl!

This is a very underrated species, IMO. BTW, that same female is in pic #2 in the same post and also in pics #1 and #2 in the previous post. She has a very different look in bright sunlight - wish my pics were better - I am NOT a photographer. LOL
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Love the green vs. red looks of the two animals in the 1st pic, 1st post!
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Carl

The greenish / yellowish one is the same female you liked (in outdoor bright sunlight), and the reddish one is an older male. Interestingly, I have bred the female to another male which is yellower - and the offspring have resembled the fathers rather than the mother...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

stunning animals,
I used to breed central china dione when I was in Italy,
very yellow and beautiful red head.
Probably I will import some from Europe later this year

Thanks!

Good to know that more are coming into the U.S. - I know that this species is very popular in Europe, and there are several morphs, locales, and phases available over there...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Yeah, Gidivandebelt has some amazing morphs!
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Carl

yes Gidi has one of the best ratsnakes collection around!

Yep, I also agree - would love to get my hands on some of the diones he has...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

>>stunning animals,
>>I used to breed central china dione when I was in Italy,
>>very yellow and beautiful red head.
>>Probably I will import some from Europe later this year

Nazza, are you in the U. S. now?

Terry
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Conserving reptiles by helping to protect habitat...
www.ratsnakehaven.com
www.scenicsantaritas.org

yes, now I'm in NYC

>>yes, now I'm in NYC

Great! I hope we can stay in touch...

Terry

sure,
I hope a day we can do a ratsnakes guy meeting!

Lovin' it...

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Conserving reptiles by helping to protect habitat...
www.ratsnakehaven.com
www.scenicsantaritas.org

That's a great looking snake, Terry - is it one you currently own? Any plans for breeding diones or bimacs this year? Still got any 2011 bimacs?
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Thanks, Toby. That guy was one of the reasons I got into diones. He's the father of all of our South Korean dione. I don't have him anymore, but I'll be breeding some of his progeny this year, along with a couple bimacs. I have a few bimacs from last year too, providing they do ok over the winter.

Later...TC

>>That's a great looking snake, Terry - is it one you currently own? Any plans for breeding diones or bimacs this year? Still got any 2011 bimacs?
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>>-Toby Brock
>>Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

He was a great looking dione...

It would be great to get some new young bimacs this year. I have some different things I am going to try with breeding mine - as well as some other species...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Yep, he was a beauty.

I'll try to get a couple baby bimacs to ya this spring...

>>He was a great looking dione...
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>>It would be great to get some new young bimacs this year. I have some different things I am going to try with breeding mine - as well as some other species...
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>>-Toby Brock
>>Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research