Thamnophis?? really??

[ProXimuS]

Norcalj, are those your snakes?

[norcalj]

Norcalj, are those your snakes?

Don't I wish

[Natrix]

http://www.projectmosquitia.com/Tham...op_800x600.jpg
If my memory serves me right, These are a protected species within Mexico are they not? therefore cannot be held in captivity? I am sure I have read this somewhere.

[Ctah_Lu]

Thats right, these are protected species because they are endemic, (i think that everyone here know what this is), and because in Mexico some of this species are endangered due the illegal market or the ignorance of most people who kill them "because they are snakes and snakes are venomous"

*(Yes i have one and i know its against the law but i have some reasons and ill be happy to explain if someone wants to know about, ALTHOUGHT IM NOT JUSTIFYING MYSELF)

[Invisible Snake]

*(Yes i have one and i know its against the law but i have some reasons and ill be happy to explain if someone wants to know about, ALTHOUGHT IM NOT JUSTIFYING MYSELF)

Hey can you please post pictures of yours?

[Ctah_Lu]

maybe tomorrow ill upload some, the last pictures that i take from him are very bad, i can tell you for now that it has a green tone on his brown skin

UPDATED:

These are some of the best photos that i can get whit a phon camera (no digital camera, sorry)

[ssssnakeluvr]

the sumicrasts have both patterns...are rare in Mexico. no photo shopping there. there are some awesome looking species from Mexico.... Steven Bol in the Netherlands has gotten (legally) a number of species from Mexico. He has recently gotten some scalaris I believe... Joe would know for sure...I just forgot.

[guidofatherof5]

maybe tomorrow ill upload some, the last pictures that i take from him are very bad, i can tell you for now that it has a green tone on his brown skin

UPDATED:

These are some of the best photos that i can get whit a phon camera (no digital camera, sorry)

Any photos are better then none. Thanks.

[Thamnophis]

This is a real Thamnophis. No photoshop.
These pictures are for some years present on my site, with permission from the maker of these pictures: Carl J. Franklin (Biological Curator, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, The University of Texas at Arlington, Dept. of Biology, Box 19498 Arlington, Tx 76019)

He wrote to me that this Mexican species (Chiapas, Queretaro, Tabasco, Puebla, Veracruz) eats tadpoles, frogs, fish, small crabs and small lobsters and soft invertebrates. The species lives mainly in humid mountain forests near streams and small rivers.
There is a red/orange and a brown variety.

[Thamnophis]

Ctah Lu, the snake you're holding in the three pictures is not a T. sumichrasti, but T. scalaris.

Thamnophis scalaris