>>1.2 were found near where yours are from while the other male came from a much more obscure locality. The latter was my first and the thrill is still there! What made it such an epic day is I had my then 10 year old w/me and we found a hatchling Oxybellis early in the morning and the Senticolis that same evening..along w/our first Coral Snake which was actually found crossing the road while the sun was still fairly high in the sky!
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>>I herp on a Quad most often and I doubt I would have even seen the other pair of neonates from my truck..they were both absolutely motionless and barely on the road at all. The juvie pattern makes them hard to see on a dirt road!
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>>Their growth rate is quite slow don't you think? It will be another 2 years at the rate they're going before I can consider trying to breed them.
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>>Bill

All three species you mentioned would be lifers for me - awesome day of herping you had there! I am guessing from what you said that AZ corals are not commonly seen / found? TX corals are fairly common where I live, and I have seen them at just about every part of the day.

I can imagine juvie greens are hard to see in the wild - their pattern is sort of similar to juvie racers, which are difficult for me to see in the grass or on dirt. The only reason I do eventually see them is because they are so flighty and just can't sit still!

Re: green rat growth - my female has had a very healthy appetite ever since I got her, and has grown very quickly, passing up the male during the first year I had them. I have not noticed any significant growth in the male, which was already an adult. He eats less and smaller mice than the female. I plan to keep a pair of these babies, depending on sex ratio - and I will be very interested in how fast / slow they grow, and if there is any real difference in growth rate for juveniles of the same age. For such small snakes, they sure do hatch out big!
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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