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11-29-03, 06:58 AM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
Location: Kingston, Ontario
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Red tail Racer Pics
I just love this girl... She looks SO beautiful, and cruises the enclosure in the day!
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11-29-03, 06:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Hamilton/Niagara Region
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That is one of the coolest snakes I have seen on this site. Is she CB or WC
Thanks for sharing..
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11-29-03, 07:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun-2002
Age: 44
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Nice looking red tail~
those are amazing snakes!
I just love them!
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11-29-03, 08:42 AM
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Location: British Colombia
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Wow, yeah I have to agree, gorgeous!!! CB or WC?? Our experience with WC has not been good.
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11-29-03, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
Location: Kingston, Ontario
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I was told that she was CB, but I doubt it. If any thing I really think she is a LTC WC.
But I've had a couple of close death experiences with her. The store that sold her to me told me to treat her like any other ratsnake (moderate humidity etc.) Then one day she got all white... So I decided to put her in tupperware and bump the humidity up to 90% after reading about their natural distribution (mangroves etc). 1 week later she shed, and off came probably several layers... I'm sure it was thick enough to make a boot or so... :-)
As of now, she is in a Vision #222 enclosure with humidity around 80% and she seems to be doing fine... Essentially I just started to treat her like a GTP or an ETB...
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11-29-03, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Canada
Age: 37
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DAMN! i envy you. thats like the #1 snake on my list! and i cant find the darn things!!!
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Jordan David M.
"I Don't Get Mad, I Get Even!"
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11-29-03, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: May-2002
Location: Leader, SK
Age: 45
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Essentially I just started to treat her like a GTP or an ETB...
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That there might just be the trick to keeping these guys alive. Good job! Beauty! 
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The Herp Room
"The day I tried to live, I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs" - C. Cornell
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11-29-03, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Oct-2003
Location: Southern Ontario
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She's a beauty!
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11-29-03, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario
Age: 42
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Very cool looking snake
-Steve-
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11-29-03, 04:21 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Oliver, BC
Age: 35
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Beautiful! What is the purpose of having a red tail? I love the look of the bright green scales on the black skin. Absolutely stunning! Good find.
-TammyR
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-You can search all day for something and never find it, only to see it in the most obvious of places after you've stopped looking.-
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12-01-03, 09:36 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canuckland
Age: 46
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:jawdrop: WOW! I love her brilliant colours!
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Erin Keller :eb:
Snakes: 2.1 Corns, 1.1 Kings, 1.0 Everglades Rat, 1.1 Spotted Pythons, 1.2 Children's Pythons, 1.2 BCIs Lizards: 0.2 Leopard Geckos, 1.3 Bibron Geckos Inverts: 2.1 Tarantulas, 0.1 Emporer Scorpion Mammals: 0.2 Kittens
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12-01-03, 11:35 PM
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Please Email Boots
Join Date: Mar-2007
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I'm guessing the red tail is used for caudal luring.
Byron on this list maintained some very healthy ones for quite some time. He gave them a large cage, humidity, the ability to get nice and warm, but to also get cool. It was a nice display, live pothos and everything.
Hopefully he will add his 2 cents, he did a lot of research.
Ryan
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12-02-03, 12:00 AM
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Join Date: Aug-2003
Location: AB
Age: 42
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She has wicked coloring!
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12-02-03, 02:33 AM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: Victoria, BC
Age: 44
Posts: 5,454
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Absolutely gorgeous!!  That is one killer snake...
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12-02-03, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
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As Ryan mentioned I kept red tails that did quite well for me. I built a rather large vertically oriented enclosure 4ft wide, 2.5ft deep and 6ft tall. I painted the enclosure to mimic mangroves complete with natural logs and branches running from top to bottom. Live plants were put on several ledges built into the enclosures corners and encouraged to grow into the branches. Fluorescent lighting was installed as well as two under tank heaters, which were installed on ledges with hide boxes on top of them. The snakes were feed while still in the trees. Infact we found taking them out of the enclosure to feed in a container greatly reduced the chances of a successful feeding considerably. The enclosure was misted twice daily (the snakes drank water droplets and rarely if at all used their water bowl) this coupled with the natural plants kept the humidity at a level that promoted good sheds. This set up seemed to work quite well on my animals hopefully you find some of this useful.
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