Anybody here familiar with the cribos? I've always loved the easterns, but they were out of my price range when I was younger and they are out of my temperature range now. In college we had a "Texas" indigo that I fell in love with. I used to carry Tex around and introduce him to all the people on the zoo. Years went by and every time I looked into it, nobody had a "Texas Indigo" that looked like my Tex. I found out yesterday that "Tex" was a different subspecies of D. melanurus. The Texas Indigo is D. melanurus erebennus. My beloved snake of yesteryear was actually a D. melanurus unicolor. And now I'm pretty sure he was a she. All these years I've been looking for the wrong snake!
Turns out that two of my friends are top breeders of all of the different types of Drymarchon. I think they have and breed all of them and their snakes and their operation is amazing. I've known Chris for a few years, and I'm working with John right now on an episode of one of my TV series. John schooled me yesterday on all the different species and subspecies. I learned so many things that I didn't know about these snakes that I've always loved so much. Well all of the babies for this year are hatching out right now. I got to see some of them actually emerging from their eggs and I got to hold a couple of the unicolor babies. It was pretty late at night and I didn't think to get pics but you can best see pics of what they look like on their website: http://www.blackpearlreptiles.com
I haven't owned my own snake for a long time. I've always like them and have my favorite species, but I'm so busy with the tortoises, roaches, tarantulas, my job, my family, all my hobbies, etc…, I just haven't wanted one more thing to take care of. Well, that has changed! After lots of discussion, we think that my temps will be okay for this subspecies. John starts the babies eating for a couple of months, and when my baby is ready, he'll let me know.
I'll try to get pics, but here is what they look like as adults:
Turns out that two of my friends are top breeders of all of the different types of Drymarchon. I think they have and breed all of them and their snakes and their operation is amazing. I've known Chris for a few years, and I'm working with John right now on an episode of one of my TV series. John schooled me yesterday on all the different species and subspecies. I learned so many things that I didn't know about these snakes that I've always loved so much. Well all of the babies for this year are hatching out right now. I got to see some of them actually emerging from their eggs and I got to hold a couple of the unicolor babies. It was pretty late at night and I didn't think to get pics but you can best see pics of what they look like on their website: http://www.blackpearlreptiles.com
I haven't owned my own snake for a long time. I've always like them and have my favorite species, but I'm so busy with the tortoises, roaches, tarantulas, my job, my family, all my hobbies, etc…, I just haven't wanted one more thing to take care of. Well, that has changed! After lots of discussion, we think that my temps will be okay for this subspecies. John starts the babies eating for a couple of months, and when my baby is ready, he'll let me know.
I'll try to get pics, but here is what they look like as adults: