Water snakes

crimsonking · 10-24-03, 09:13 PM

A pic or 2 of some nerodia clarkii compressicauda, or mangrove salt marsh snakes. Born this year. 1st a light one I think will turn out solid light gray/green.
:Mark

crimsonking · 10-24-03, 09:16 PM

and one I think will turn out red. And another that will be dark has a semi stripe.
:Mark

Dani33 · 10-24-03, 09:23 PM

Very cool!

Simon · 10-24-03, 09:38 PM

very nice
you really have a nice varaity of snakes around your place~
it's really nice...everything is nice at your place~

crimsonking · 10-25-03, 04:47 AM

Thanks, guys. If I had only a few snakes, these would be high on my list of "pets". They feed from your hand the instant they're born and have a very inquisitive nature that lends itself to interraction with you. Plus the color and pattern variation is remarkable. Great climbers with prehensile tails and a very mellow (for a watersnake) disposition. Only one out of many wild ones I found this year bit me. The babies never do. Great little snakes.
:Mark

Simon · 10-25-03, 12:59 PM

Mark,

Yes I totally agree with you~ and their scales are amazingly rough and the texture is just amazing when holding them~

And you forgot to mention one more thing, they're great hunters of fish! I have seen them 'hunt' fish in their little water bowl...man they basically 'push' their prey into it's mouth! That is one amazing skill!!!

Love it....again...I would of gotten them if I didn't have so many corns.....but there are just like millions more of snakes that I would like to add to my collection....so basically I might end up with the same amount of snakes if I didn't have that many corns...so just keeping one species might be better off for me...lol

Oliverian · 10-25-03, 01:05 PM

They almost look like different species. They sure have incredible colour variety. Did you wild-catch them?
-Tammy

crimsonking · 10-25-03, 05:15 PM

Tammy, these babies are from females I caught this year and bred with males also caught this year. I posted pics of the various colors and patterns of the adults and also when I released all (but these few) a couple months back. I wanted to make notes of their gestation and etc. All totaled, there was 0.0.75 babies and 2.5 adults.
:Mark

Oliverian · 10-25-03, 07:14 PM

Nice. They sure are beautiful snakes. Are you going to breed those three when they're older?

CDN-Cresties · 10-25-03, 07:22 PM

Cool feeding pic!!!

-Steve-

crimsonking · 10-25-03, 09:59 PM

If I decide to keep these few, I will certainly breed them in the future. I think they would make an ideal snake for a "showcase" terrarium set up. If I only had the room.......
:Mark

Clownfishie · 10-26-03, 12:33 PM

Very cool Mark!