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Great looking snakes everyone. Thanks for posting all the photos.

Here are some Prasina. Awesome snakes. I've showed some of these photos before but figured I would throw them all out there.

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Randy Whittington

More. They are breeding in the first photo.

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Randy Whittington

I MUST have some of these some day! These are the snakes I have been waiting for you to post...

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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Thanks Toby. They are great snakes. I was tickled to get a couple of nice clutches last year. They are a high spirited species. They look much nicer in person and have colors that don't really show up well in photos.

This is a rather over exposed photo but they wouldn't sit still for me to adjust and take another. It's funny, I bought a new monitor a couple months ago and didn't realize with my old one how over exposed many of my old photos were. You will notice new pictures will be less exposed.

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Randy Whittington

Your photos look great IMO - much better than most of mine any way. Haha! I have seen exactly one prasina in person, so I would say that your pics fairly accurately capture what a beautiful species it is. I know what you mean though, as I feel the same way about a few species' colors - bairdi, Senticolis, Rhynchophis especially. I am especially liking watching my Rhynchophis change to their adult coloration.

I have probably asked before, but have you ever kept frenata?
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

I haven't kept frenata yet but they have been at the top of my have to get list for a couple years now. The one time I had a chance to get a nice 1.2 group I didn't have the cash at the time.
Here is a photo that makes no sense at all for the rat-a-thon. I just saw it as I was going through some old photos last night and thought I would throw it up. It's probably my favorite snake photo I ever took. The baby hog pushed through the embryonic sac about 2 seconds after I took the shot.

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Randy Whittington

According to some, the Gonyosoma snakes (including prasina and frenata) are closely related to Rhynchophis. This is the sort of thing which makes all of them even more interesting to me...

Interesting pic, Randy - but you are opening the door to other non-ratsnake pics. Who knows what I might post up now. LOL
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

I think they are probably all in the same subfamily, but genetics will show how closely related they are to each other. I think prasina and frenata are probably quite close and oxycephalum might be the next closest to them.

TC

>>According to some, the Gonyosoma snakes (including prasina and frenata) are closely related to Rhynchophis. This is the sort of thing which makes all of them even more interesting to me...
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>>Interesting pic, Randy - but you are opening the door to other non-ratsnake pics. Who knows what I might post up now. LOL
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>>-Toby Brock
>>Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Hey and occaisonal off topic picture never hurt anyone. lol
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Randy Whittington

>>Hey and occaisonal off topic picture never hurt anyone. lol
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>>Randy Whittington

I heard that!

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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research