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#1833458

Reptililian Boy
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Cali Kingsnake

I have had my Kingsnake for about 2 months and recently came across a couple old friends who are more into it than I so here’s a question. Are brown blotched kingsnakes rarer than normal black kingsnakes or what? I told them that mine was much more brown than the four black ones my friend Danny had so I was a bit confused. Seems like color variation to me since California herps tend to vary.

Alec

08/16/08 11:37pm

#1833506

L.ROY
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1833458

Cali Kingsnake

yes brown is just a color variation and some areas have brown and some areas have black and some areas have both.

08/17/08 12:33am

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Greatballzofire
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Message To: L.ROY In reference to Message Id: 1833506

Cali Kingsnake

Link
About California King snakes with photos of the different color variations. Has a cool picture of a king eating a rattlesnake.

08/17/08 09:47am

#1833793

L.ROY
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 1833689

Cali Kingsnake

greatballz,
you come up with the best links, i never saw that one b/4.

mucho thanx!

08/17/08 11:53am

#1834357

Greatballzofire
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Message To: L.ROY In reference to Message Id: 1833793

Cali Kingsnake

L.Roy,
You’re welcome! I am a Googlemaniac! A game I play is when someone posts a question I search the Net for anything relevant. I dig it when I score some good stuff!

08/17/08 09:33pm

#1834490

L.ROY
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 1834357

Cali Kingsnake

Man! there’s some killer eastern pics on that page.

08/17/08 11:30pm

#1835373

Reptililian Boy
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Message To: L.ROY In reference to Message Id: 1834490

Cali Kingsnake

Wow, thanks guys. I have the same exact picture on my computer. Thanks again, Alec

08/18/08 06:20pm

#1835441

Bratty_leo_sun
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1835373

Cali Kingsnake

That’s a pretty cool link!!!!

08/18/08 07:18pm

#1835513

Greatballzofire
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Message To: Bratty_leo_sun In reference to Message Id: 1835441

Cali Kingsnake

Link

Dotz

Woody
A variation of this Discover Life site about pyros.
These are my two little pyros.

08/18/08 08:21pm

#1835524

L.ROY
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 1835513

Cali Kingsnake

WoW! those are nice, to me they look to be from different clutches. or are they sibs?

08/18/08 08:38pm

#1835579

Greatballzofire
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Message To: L.ROY In reference to Message Id: 1835524

Cali Kingsnake

They are brother and sister from unrelated parents. Dotz is rather unusual. Even her personality is unusual for a notoriously secretive reclusive species. She is bold and when she eats she doesn’t give a fig if I watch her!

08/18/08 09:15pm

#1835681

L.ROY
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 1835579

Cali Kingsnake

even tho there’s cheaper ones out there i say you did dang good. did you ever find out if they’re of the strain that eat well all year?

08/18/08 10:42pm

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Greatballzofire
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Message To: L.ROY In reference to Message Id: 1835681

Cali Kingsnake

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did you ever find out if they’re of the strain that eat well all year?

Thanks for the compliment! I researched as best I could to find these. I had considered zonatas but the zonata disease scared me off.
I will ask Bill if they are that strain. Dotz is an enthusiastic eater of ft pinkies. Woody is enthusiastic, too, he just does not like ft pinkies so I have been feeding him lizards I or my cats catch until my mice can produce some live pinkies, which he ate for Bill. Even my lizard scenting does not entice him to eat the darn ft pinky. I am going to sleeve the ft pinky in a piece of Snakezoid’s shed skin next time I feed him and see if that doesn’t work. I am not too worried about this. He does not have anorexia, so I think eventually he will eat mice, alive or dead. I am in a position to provide the wild type diet if all else fails, which is a different situation than for most folks who get these pyros.

08/18/08 11:27pm

#1837498

L.ROY
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Message To: Greatballzofire In reference to Message Id: 1835725

Cali Kingsnake

well, when are you gonna post some feeding pics and submit your application to the "In Hand Feeding Club"(I.H.F.C.) soon i hope to print up some frameable certificates, beware of imitaters, i’m the Prez. and Lampro’s the Vice Prez. (since he never gave me any guff about it when i started doing it about 5 yrs ago) accept NO subtitutions!

08/20/08 06:48pm