Finally.......

[ConcinusMan]

Stop keeping me in suspense. I want to know if there is a male for amy.

Glad blackie is doing well!

[ssssnakeluvr]

guess I didn't quite word that post right....yes, the black one is doing ok. I sexed the plains babies....1 het is female, all the rest (3 hets, 2 nebraska, and 2 Iowa) are males.

[ConcinusMan]

Whew!

OK. Now I know I won't be wasting my time searching for some fine attractive pairs of adult ordinoides for you.

Wed and Thursday forecast sunny and 76 degrees. I'll be heading out about 9am. It's funny, in all my efforts I have only come up with 2 females (that I do not wish to part with). The few males I found refused to eat and were released after a month or so. Ordinoides wasn't even in my plan this year but I can't part with these two. They're just TOO awesome.

[ssssnakeluvr]

looking forward to what ever you catch!! they are primarily worm eaters in the wild...my melanistic loves them, won't touch pinkies....bury a pinky in chopped worm, he will eat all the worm and leave the pinky. I actually got him to eat one...but thats it!! I haven't tried fish with him lately...he wouldn't take it last year...

[ConcinusMan]

I've had very few take fish. Those few, will take it readily. You are right, even a reluctant feeder can be coaxed into eating worms. Depending on the habitat and whatnot, some will eat fish, and other large ones will take chopped bloody pinkies but they will ALL chow on night crawlers!

I know of a spot near a creek where I found 2 melanistics a few years ago. One was black as the ace of spades, the other had a faint hint of a stripe. Went to go to that spot a couple of months ago. All I found was leveled, excavated bare ground with bulldozers parked there.

They just had to do that in the winter when the snakes were still in their dens. Makes me very angry!

[ssssnakeluvr]

that really sucks!!!!! my melanistic has a real faint pattern

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, I saw it. Awesome.

[Snaky]

Congrats with the nice litters! The black concinnus you have left looks very nice. Keep us up to date when he grows up

[ConcinusMan]

Hey, my big girl ordinoides (2.5 footer) ate half a fuzzy last night. I tried night crawlers first, then fish. No response. There's always one oddball in the group.

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's a couple more pics.....



here's a dark one next to a normal one



this pic is just cute!



my other red spot popped last night...she had 5 live, 3 stillborn, and about 6 slugs. will take some pics of these later!