Hi Terry,

Yeah, that red really crescendos into the tail...really neat. I mean, how much cooler can you get than a maize-yellow snake with a gray or silver head?

That male is a monster, easily huskier than any suboc I presently own. They're probably about the same size as the Texans.

One funny thing about my Baird's...they all buzz their tails when they've got a mouse in their coils, just before eating. My Texans and Mexicans ALL do that, from babies to adults, when I walk past the cage. My subocs and Green Rats really don't do that very often. Neither do the gray-bandeds...in fact, the gray-banded kings are some of the most focused feeders I've ever seen in a snake...very little distracts them once they've grabbed a prey item. You can pick them up, etc. etc.

If there was ever a proposal on naming the "subspecies" of Nuevo Leon bairdi, then I'd love to see that. As far as I know, they haven't.

Here's a female from Galeana, Nuevo Leon:

Cheers!

Dusty Rhoads

Suboc.com

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