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| noexcuse4you |
My new hobby.As some of you may know, I'm severely decreasing the size of my tarantula collection to pursue a new hobby - snakes. I'm primarily interested in native species as exotics don't really appease me.As with any hobby I pursue, I tend to jump in head first rather than getting my feet wet. I've been debating which species with which to start, going back and forth between alterna and suboc and I've decided to get a pair of alterna. It'll be a challenge, but I'm up to it. Here's the first pair I'm getting. They'll be here next week  . River Road locality. I loooove the reduced pattern and speckled look of these.
Female 
Male 
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| balam |
These are very nice snakes Kyle.
Are they Lampropeltis? way...way cool. |
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| noexcuse4you |
Yep, Lampropeltis alterna
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| balam |
No kidding, "River Road" locality?
Nice by all means man. Kudos on your new hobby. Those are wicked. |
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| ogershok |
One word, man: "Babies." | ||
| noexcuse4you |
Hehe, these *are* babies so they won't be making babies for a few more years. If I find a good deal on adults, I may pick some up (have to be locality specific though and preferably alterna phase). Females are realllly hard to come by though because everyone holds them back.
I might eventually get other kings like mexicana subspecies and pyromelana. |
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| balam |
I have an acquaintance that gave me a 50/50 Cal King yesterday and claimed he was going to be getting some mexicana mexicana soon... I'll hit him up
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| Celeste |
If you start breeding albino subocs, let me know...! | ||
| noexcuse4you |
They came today! The guy who sold them to me was even nice enough to throw in a bunch of feeder lizards.
They didn't waste any time chowing down! 
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| balam |
SWEEEEEET MAN Are you bringing them to the show?
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| noexcuse4you |
Nah, they need some time to settle in. Plus they're really small so they're not easy to handle. | ||
| balam |
well then you better keep on posting and keeping us updated on these. They sure are beautiful.
Congrats again
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| ftorres |
Hello Kyle,
Nice snakes, really nice. Are they going to take pinky mice readily or will it take some time and effort? Celeste, those trans pecos albino snakes are super nice. |
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| noexcuse4you |
It'll take some time and effort to get them on pinkies, but I'm up to the challenge. They should start feeding on pinkies after the first couple sheds. | ||
| Loudog760 |
Sweet snake for sure. | ||
| Herpetologyfrk |
Yeah switch them ASAP, if you don't soon as they get older they will refuse mice.
I know of a couple tricks, let me find some videos, and i'll send you the links =] Good luck Kyle! |
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| Celeste |
Yeah -- I used to have a Vine Snake and I got it feeding on rat pinkies by rubbing them on a dead anole I kept in the freezer... :-/ | ||
| noexcuse4you |
Here's the setup in which I'm keeping them. Its pretty simple - UTH heater, hide on the warm side, hide on the cool side, Helix thermostat. I hope they're happy. The guy on top of his hide looks like he is.
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| balam |
Hey Kyle, those set-ups sure look like they'll make the snakeys happy.
The container is also pretty darn nice, where did you get it? |
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| noexcuse4you |
They're the large exoterra breeder boxes. I got them at LLL for $8. | ||
| balam |
LLL? fill me in please. I'd love to purchase some
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| noexcuse4you |
www.lllreptile.com There are locations in Oceanside and Escondido down here in San Diego. |
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| balam |
Nice, Thanks.
RE: feeding. I've also heard from people that in order to get certain snakes to feed on pinkies they poke a hole on the cranium and expose a bit of brain matter. Is this viable? |
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| Herpetologyfrk |
Yeah, I have done this successfully. It does work/ |
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| Celeste |
... I *hope* you guys are talking about pinkies that are already dead! :-P | ||
| noexcuse4you |
New snakies! I got 2, supposedly 100% het for blonde.
I love these guys! 
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| balam |
what a looker
Guess you'll have to wait some time before you find out if they really are 100% het. |
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| noexcuse4you |
Such a cutie!
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| noexcuse4you |
Here's the male. He hasn't even had his first shed yet and he's huge!
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| MUD |
Wow. He looks awesome. Very nice Kyle. | ||
| Celeste |
My favorites! Congratulations, Kyle! | ||
| noexcuse4you |
The male just shed and kept his nice silver color!
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| MUD |
He looks really cool. I love the patterns. | ||
| noexcuse4you |
Kick arse! These guys skipped pinkies and are takin' down fuzzies.
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