Freshly-Shed E. t. ridleyi..."PIC"

[Simon R. Sansom]

Hi folks,
Here's one of the little ones after shedding. That stripe blows my mind...
http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/simonsansom/242543picture.jpg
Only a week old, and already suckin' down the fuzzies... Amazing!

Thanks for lookin'

Simon

[Colonel SB]

Holy crap it's a jungle carpet lol I love the black on yellow will it stay like that as it grows?

[Simon R. Sansom]

No, the yellow stripe will turn to pure white!

Simon

[Jungle Jen]

That stripe is amazing, nice looking snake!

[Katt]

That's a stupidly nice snake!!! :p

Some locales of cavers keep the yellow on their dorsal stripe, eh?

[Simon R. Sansom]

Thanks, guys!
Yes, Katt; Apparently ones from the Cameron Highlands locale do tend to retain the yellow stripe.

Simon

[marisa]

Wow very cool Simon! What a beautiful stripe!

Marisa

[vanderkm]

Gorgeous snake - very nice

mary v.

[Clownfishie]

WOW!! Awesome... you lucky guy you :)

[CDN-Cresties]

Love that yellow strip, awesome snake :)

-Steve-

[jay76]

What a beaut! Love that stripe :)

[Colonel SB]

Wow do you have pics of adults !

[TheRedDragon]

Beautiful! I love the bold stripe. :)

[Invictus]

That is gorgeous. I think I should get me some of those.

[sapphire_moon]

beautiful!

[Simon R. Sansom]

Thanks everyone. I'll try to get a pic of an adult up later today.

Simon

[Colonel SB]

Thanks man I'd appreciate it :)

[Simon R. Sansom]

Okay...Here's my male.

http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/simonsansom/937897picture.jpg

Although he may not look it in the pic, this fellow is well over eight feet in length, and more even-tempered than a Corn Snake.

Simon

[Colonel SB]

Wow Simon are there any good website's on Elaphe taeniura?

[Linds]

Gorgeous snakes!! Definitely on the wanted list :D

[Katt]

Fantastic Simon, I can't wait to get my own!

Cavers are now Orthriophis, no??

[Simon R. Sansom]

I guess you can call them that if you want to. Apparently there may be grounds for someone to challenge the "new" classification.

I'll stick with "Elaphe" for now,(Old habits die hard) LOL! .

Simon

[Katt]

I'm all for the new classification. I've seen some "challenging" posts regarding the new genus. My feeling is that my corn is no way related to my beauties and I just can't stand the thought of both having the same genus when I can breed corn to kings, but not beauties to corns.

[Simon R. Sansom]

Hi Katt;

I'll let the taxonomists fight it out.

Simon

[ranmasatome]

Very Nice Simon!! VERY NiCE!!! i'm so happy to see these snakes get their credit for beauty. They are no. 1 on my list of colubrids.
maybe some day i should head back to cameron highlands and take pics of them for you guys...its only 2 hrs from home anyways plus i know where a pair of them reisdes...i released them there..:).

[Simon R. Sansom]

Hi ranmasatome,

Thank you very much for the kind comments.

They are beautiful animals, aren't they?

On the Rat Snake Forum on the "competing" web-site, there are some recent pics of ridleyi "in situ". Very interesting indeed.

Cheers!

Simon

[snakemann87]

Sweet man! But that adult is jsut amazing. And over 8ft WOW!

HOw much those suckers cost?

[Simon R. Sansom]

Thanks. They seem to run around $300.00 U.S. each.
I think I read somewhere that they can possibly reach ten feet in length!

Cheers!

Simon

[Katt]

Cavers are coming down in price however. This year at the Daytona show, I saw them at $175 US. However most were $200USD, and this mostly for males, pairs run about $500USD. I think they'll stay around that price for a bit.

[ranmasatome]

yay!! so maybe i can afford one here soon!!:) i remembering enquiring abt. 4 yrs back when i first got to canada...and they were like 1300 a pair...insane considering i can catch them back home...
and yeah..they grow pretty big..the ones i released were abt 9ft +...

[BlkMambaVenom]

I love snakes and find them to be interesting creatures and very intelligent. But I dont ever think I could handle watching one eat. LoL From the pics alone i get grossed out. I know the snake has to eat , I just wouldnt watch it eat (or takes pics then) if I had one of my own. :)
Brittany

[Simon]

Simon (man this is weird..typing my own name like that I am talking to myself..lol)

Those photos are great!! and teh snakes are even better!!

Lovely looking bunch!
keep up the good work1!!

[Simon Sansom]

Thanks for the kind comments, Simon. I appreciate it.

Cheers!

Simon

[Joe]

amazing bud! beautifull snakes Simon!

[reptiledude21]

is that a garder? what kinda snake is that?

[Simon Sansom]

"reptiledude21"...That is a Cave-Dwelling Rat Snake, not a "Garter" Snake.

Cheers!

Simon