pueblan milksnake
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Awesome snake! I haven't had many pet snakes, some corn snakes, rat snakes, ball python.... got rid of em though (sold them). I'm reconsidering getting a pet snake for good though- maybe a western hognose
Speaking of snakes, i'm sure nobody found any today, or will tomorrow. It was in the high 90's low 100's today!!!
Speaking of snakes, i'm sure nobody found any today, or will tomorrow. It was in the high 90's low 100's today!!!
well, i think thats what the paper said in the pet shop, but i saw a pic of a pueblan milksnake and it looked similar, so i thought it might be that, honduras also rang a bell, oh well, you guys would know better than me anyway, so ill just go with what you guys think, but ya hes a really good pet, superb eater, you cant feed him enough, he eats 3 pinkies a meal, but im sure he could eat more, he is just fine being handled too. he stays still for his pics too, they make great pets
The white bands do look a little narrow and white to be a L. t. campbelli (Pueblan), but those characters could vary a lot. I found a snake very much like that under a board in the Barrens in 1959, near Bamber Lake (I was 8). The naturalist at the camp I was attending started dancing and jumping when I showed him the snake (even then I knew about "red touch yellow" so I wasn't worried about handling it). It was a scarlet snake, Cemophora coccinea, one of very few that had been found in the Barrens up to then. Cool stuff for an eight-year old. That snake and the enormous rattler I found in the washroom at the camp that same summer pretty much clinched my career choice as a scientific herpetologist.
I've written quite a bit about my experience at Camp Columbus (at Bamber Lake) elsewhere in this forum, if anyone is interested.
Sean Barry
I've written quite a bit about my experience at Camp Columbus (at Bamber Lake) elsewhere in this forum, if anyone is interested.
Sean Barry
swwit said:From that pic it looks more like your snake is an annulata or celaenops than it does a pueblan. It's hard from the pic to tell without seeing the head better.