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 #1770447


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 Scarlet snake

i don’t know if i should post this here or on the king snake forum,but does anyone keep scarlet snakes? i heard they are rare.
06/23/08  09:29am

 #1770479


Gottee guy
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   Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1770447


 Scarlet snake

i looked them up and they aren’t sopposed to be rare. i also saw a dead one last week.



06/23/08  10:16am

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 Scarlet snake

Yeh, your posting it in the right place. The Scarlet King Snake is actually a milk snake. I’ve heard they are dificult to keep and if they go off feed its extremely hard to get them back on. But thats just what I heard.
06/23/08  12:38pm

 #1770651


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   Message To: MilkY_king   In reference to Message Id: 1770610


 Scarlet snake

I think that Gottee Guy is referring to the small burrowing species Scarlet snake (Cemophora coccinea) growing to about 20 inches.
06/23/08  01:12pm

 #1770676


MilkY_king
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   Message To: Peter54   In reference to Message Id: 1770651


 Scarlet snake

Oh, my bad! LOL! I thought you meant Scarlet King.
06/23/08  01:28pm

 #1771456


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   Message To: MilkY_king   In reference to Message Id: 1770676


 Scarlet snake

I have seen quite a few Scarlet snakes here in central florida. Dont know a whole lot about them. gorgeous snakes though.



06/23/08  11:17pm

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   Message To: SteveOllllO   In reference to Message Id: 1771456


 Scarlet snake

In S.C. I have seen a lot of them,and like Peter stated they are small,all the ones I have seen have been 12 to 18 inches and have been a gamewarden and in the pest control for 17 years and caught snakes all my life and I would have said they never get to 24 inches.That is another snake people think they have a coral snake and kill it not knowing what they really have.Great find



06/26/08  09:46pm

 #1776129


Gottee guy
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 Scarlet snake

yeah i was talking about the smaller burrowing species that gets to like 18 in. and has the pointed nose for burrowing. where would the best place to find them be?
06/27/08  11:35pm

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   Message To: Gottee guy   In reference to Message Id: 1776129


 Scarlet snake

Scarlet snakes aren’t very common in captivity because they feed almost exclsively on reptile eggs. I suppose you could keep some crested geckos or something around to keep them supplied with eggs, but they’re so similar to other snakes that do just fine on rodents that nobody really bothers to.
I’ve also heard of them drinking raw chicken eggs, but it doesn’t sound like a good idea. Getting open yolk onto their faces would probably encourage mouth rot, and factory-produced bird eggs are a lot higher in cholesterol than even free-range bird eggs, much less reptile eggs. I’d think it would be more of a temporary trick while getting some reptilian egg-producers esatablished. And still, like I said, an awful lot of trouble to go through as opposed to just feeding a scarlet kingsnake some fuzzies.
07/01/08  09:23pm


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