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by milksnakegreg on August 22, 2008
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Hey guys i am just letting you know that I'm back online again. i am not on much during the summer so this is my first post in several months. I got a new female burmese python over the summer to go w/ my male. hoping to breed them by next breeding season. Did anybody hatch anything interesting yet. Maybe their still in the incubator but thats a start
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by FSB on August 24, 2008
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Greg, have you ever heard of anything called a "green-phase" eastern milk? A friend of mine told me he saw it in an aticle somewhere, but I haven't been able to locate the article or any information about it anywhere. I saw your "handle" and thought, what the heck, I'd just ask!
Thanks- FSB
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by milksnakegreg on August 24, 2008
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As far as I have come across I've never seen any article nor heard of any phase of the eastern milk titled that. If it is the an actual phase then you would be better off posting on the forums of kingsnake.com rather than a hot herp society. As far as Milk snakes, if you're looking for anything I will list below what snakes are kept that are kept by a local milk snake specialist who also sells. He may be in contact with someone who can help or he may be able to help locate one.
Gray banded king snakes/most phases or locales
Honduran milks/albinos and normal just had a clutch of albinos
Andean milks
Black milks
Mexican milks
nelsons milks
Sinaloan milks
eastern milks
arizona mountain kings
louisiana milks
pueblan milks
stuarts milks
red milks
new mexican milks
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by FSB on August 24, 2008
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Hi Greg-
Here' the deal - the Mother's Day before last (2007) I went out driving the roads on our farm in Virginia (snakes just love Mother's Day, I've noticed). The first thing I saw was a rattlesnake, but as I jumped out of the Jeep and ran towards it, I discovered to my utter disgust that it was a DOR. Still disgusted, I drove on in a foul temper, since that was the first TR I had seen that year and they are my main reason for being there. Then, on the other end of the farm, as if it were a consolation prize, I came upon a milksnake. I'm not really a milksnake person, but I've grown very fond of the wild easterns we have on our farm... they're just something different from all the black rats, racers, waters and garters, and are always fun to see.
I was just going to move the snake off the road, but as I picked it up, I noticed it was unusual... rather than the normal plain brown or red, the blotches were an odd-looking mustard-yellow/greenish color, on the typical gray background. I showed it to a herping friend who at first shrugged it off and said it looked "normal" to him. Later, he contacted me again to say that he'd seen an article in Reptiles USA about a rare "green-phase" eastern milk, and that so far only 2 specimens had been found, both in Virginia. He said the photo in the article looked exactly like my snake. Somehow, I haven't been able to run down the article, or the issue it's in, and I long ago posted on Kingsnake and got no responses, so I saw your ID here and thought I'd just ask, since it says "milksnakegreg"!
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by theemojohnm on August 24, 2008
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Fred,
I have a friend who lives in Waynesboro VA. He reported a milk snake similar in color to the one you decribe. I to am not much of "milksnake fan", as I have mostly "moved on" from most of the non-venomous species. But, I admit, the redish-colored Eastern milksnakes that are not so common in my little southwestern tip of Pennsylvania, are something interesting to find.
Anyways, I will talk to my buddy, who seems to find alot of "olive grren" colored milksnakes in his own secretive herping sites in Waynesboro (spelling?).
Are you familiar with the area? How far do you live from that region?
~John.
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by FSB on August 25, 2008
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Thanks John, that's interesting to know. I used to live in Charlottesville, which is very close to Waynesboro, but our farm is a good ways from there, in Patrick County, which is in the bottom line of counties before you get to North Carolina.
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