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Kettennatter
05-23-12, 06:56 PM
Hello Everybody,

after lurking for a few days and just reading the forum, I decided to introduce myself. I got started with snakes about 5 months ago, but mainly taking care of my family's snakes. Then I just received a BCI as a birthday gift, and that snake has been with me for less than a week.

So far, there are a gray rat snake, a corn snake, a sand boa, a king snake and a common boa in the house. None of them are full grown, and the gray rat snake cannot be more than a few months old.

And since everybody seems to want to see pictures, here is the king snake:
http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t416/kettennatter/az1.jpg

Follow by a picture of the common boa:
http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t416/kettennatter/kaiser1.jpg
infernalis
05-23-12, 07:34 PM
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alessia55
05-23-12, 07:52 PM
Welcome! I'd love to see photos of ALL your snakes. The ones you posted are beautiful :yes:
jaleely
05-23-12, 09:15 PM
nice snakes! def need to see them all ; )
CK SandBoas
05-23-12, 09:16 PM
Hi there, welcome to the forum!:D
Trent
05-23-12, 09:48 PM
hi and welcome!!
CDN_Blood
05-24-12, 04:05 AM
Welcome aboard. The pics you've posted are great shots, so now I'm all anxious to see more :)
USMCgunner11
05-24-12, 04:15 AM
Hello and welcome
Kettennatter
05-24-12, 06:34 AM
Thank you very much. I do have pictures of the corn snake for sure, and at least one of the sand boa. The rat snake will have to wait, I guess. ;)
UwabamiReptiles
05-24-12, 09:20 AM
Welcome to the forum!
buffcoat
05-24-12, 10:24 AM
Welcome! Lots of great info to be had here!
SnakeyJay
05-24-12, 10:37 AM
Welcome... That's a nice boa youve got there :D
bigsnakegirl785
05-24-12, 11:31 AM
Welcome, I love your boa! We need to see some more pics soon!
marvelfreak
05-24-12, 02:01 PM
Hello and welcome to our zoo. Sweet pictures.
Rachel1990
05-24-12, 02:39 PM
Welcome... Love the pics especialy the boa :)
Kettennatter
05-24-12, 07:14 PM
Yes, I need to take more pictures. I may have a few older pictures, but the boa and my rat snake I just brought home last weekend, so I plan on taking a few more. I still have to figure out how to make sure the rat snake will remain still enough to take a picture, it's just a little more than a hatchling.
Kettennatter
05-25-12, 03:08 PM
And as promised, a few more pictures. This time of the gray rat snake. It's a tiny and rather hungry little thing.

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t416/kettennatter/jr2.jpg

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t416/kettennatter/jr1-1.jpg
Jlassiter
06-21-12, 10:30 AM
Your young gray rat snake is not a gray rat snake but rather an anery corn snake.

Gray ratsnakes have a different head pattern. Cornsnakes have the double "chevrons" on their head......Juvenile ratsnakes (obsoleta) do not
http://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/data/images/371m.jpg
snake man12
06-21-12, 10:33 AM
I agree with this ^^^^^
Kettennatter
06-21-12, 11:32 AM
Interesting. So, was I cheated by the breeder? (I will keep the snake, it's been great.)

P.S.: I looked up anery corn snakes, and you are right. I can see a yellow tint develop in the neck region, too.
Jlassiter
06-21-12, 08:40 PM
Sounds like you were certainly mis informed......nice corn though.....
Kettennatter
06-22-12, 06:42 AM
Sounds like you were certainly mis informed......nice corn though.....

Either misled or mislabeled by accident. I will let them know this weekend. Other than that I'm very happy with the snake, it's very docile and eats and sheds like a champ.
Jlassiter
06-22-12, 06:58 AM
Yep...it could always be an accident
Donnie
06-22-12, 08:57 AM
It could be both rat and corn, it looks a lot like an ultramel anery to me
Jlassiter
06-22-12, 06:13 PM
Could be....but it's definitely not a gray rat......

Your root beer is a rat x corn.......but emoryi are corns in my book.....
Donnie
06-22-12, 06:35 PM
Could be....but it's definitely not a gray rat......

Your root beer is a rat x corn.......but emoryi are corns in my book.....

I think they keep changing Pantherophis emoryi between full status species to sub species of Pantherophis guttatus. I always consider it as great plains rat rather than corn sub species but I am no scientist. I guess I am right sometimes and wrong others depending on what the scientific community think at the time :)
exwizard
06-23-12, 06:42 AM
Either misled or mislabeled by accident. I will let them know this weekend. Other than that I'm very happy with the snake, it's very docile and eats and sheds like a champ.you got a better deal than you think, IMO, Corns are much better snakes than Rats.
Kettennatter
06-23-12, 08:02 AM
you got a better deal than you think, IMO, Corns are much better snakes than Rats.

Well, the corn I already have is a great snake. Amazingly resilient, docile, and easy to take care of. I really don't mind that snake the slightest. I would however like to heckle the store clerk a little. ;)