Quote Originally Posted by Kelan View Post
Yeah, I love nerodia and would love to get my hands on some CB non-native species.

I didn't even know if any Natrix were in the US or not...always have thought they were awesome though!
I can sure hook you up with some cb hypo Bandeds, some of which are probably "Super Hypo"(homozygous for co-dom hypomelanism) and normal cb Red-Bellies, as well as some nice-looking normal Banded babies. I'd love to get ahold of some adult Broad-Bandeds and Diamondbacks myself. These snakes are more enjoyable for me than my other Colubrids, since I've become horribly allergic to rodent dander, even on frozen mice and rats, and it's so convenient to simply pick up some Salmon or Tilapia at the supermarket when I go shopping, like buying food for the cat or dog! I've caught several adult Water Snakes of various species, and have never had one bite me. I recently picked up a huge male that is probably an intergrade between a Red-Belly and a Banded, from Charleston County. He did the head-flattening thing at first, then quickly settled down and now I can even carry him around like a baby in my arms, on his back. He's over four feet long and still has some visable dorsal pattern, plus a few random stripes trying to make their way across his belly(which is lighter than most Red-Bellies' bellies), but otherwise looks like a light-colored Red-Belly.

Here's a couple of pics of him; I named him "Big George" after George Foreman.



Here's a known F1 hybrid(50/50) of Nerodia erythrogaster x N. fasciata that belongs to the Edisto Island Serpentarium on Edisto Island, SC. I tried to get this snake, but Ted Clamp is too attached to it, lol.


Here's a nice one of "Mahogany", my female who was sold to me as a Banded, but who is probably also an intergrade, just more Banded than Red-Belly. She has very few belly stripes. She gave birth to four babies, a tiny litter by Water Snake proportions, early in September. One shows a lot of her coloration, two are pretty much ordinary-looking Banded babies, and one has turned almost jet-black, so it could be melanistic. She is still fairly small, though, so I guess this was her first litter.