house snake ID

Re: house snake ID

Postby captaincaveman » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:43 pm

Fooble wrote:Where are you from then?




Im from the UK, where most keepers seem to be interested in royal morphs at the moment, which i dont get :smt021
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Re: house snake ID

Postby jka » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:45 pm

So caveman what happened to the infamous lineatus x amel capensis?

You remember that Willy bloke, he never posted the pics?

I still think these are capensis but the first one has some "different" pattern
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Re: house snake ID

Postby captaincaveman » Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:05 pm

jka wrote:So caveman what happened to the infamous lineatus x amel capensis?

You remember that Willy bloke, he never posted the pics?

I still think these are capensis but the first one has some "different" pattern



i only heard of it from eric, i was under the impression that none of the house snakes could be crossed, so it never happened then?
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Re: house snake ID

Postby Durban Keeper » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:05 am

That's not mentalis. reminds me more of the striped phase capensis, they have the same eyes, but the striping is not present in this case, but yeah, they don't even look slightly like mentalis. nada!
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Re: house snake ID

Postby captaincaveman » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:31 pm

so what about scale counts, are there any definite way of identifying from them or do too many of the figures cross over to be of any use?

it'll be interesting to see how these develop, cheers guys really appreciate the help
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