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A guy named Jim Kane in Tucson, AZ use to have a breeding group of these. Does anybody know who he sold them to or where I might obtain some specimens?
 
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They were great animals, I had a trio at one time. Jim told me that you could triple clutch them with no problems if you fed them really well.
 
if I'm not mistaken

and i don't believe that i am, these are celaenops and vary slightly in color from different ranges. They are not of huge size and consider one of the smaller species of milks/tri-color milks. The most sought after ones seem yo come from west Texas of the Big Bend region where I have personally found 7 in 30 years. The ones there seem to be some what smaller but fairly bright in color. All range of the celaenops seem to do good in captivity except for the feeding of very young ones or neonates due to size e ? Note : the New Mexican/celaenops of the Big Bend area is in fact called the Big Bend Milk Snake.........
 
I seem to remember seeing those particular animals for sale a while back. I believe they were Albuquerque locality New Mexican milks (L.t. celaenops) and I am not real sure where they headed off to or of who might have purchased them. My friend Ric Blair keeps an incredible collection of locality animals (River Road and Black Gap, Sanderson and Alpine, TX) but I am not sure if he works with the ones from Alburqueque.
Good luck and I hope you track them down.
Nathan Wells
 
www.applegatereptiles.com may have some, give Bob a call and ask if he has any for sale, he has them listed on his price list for $100, but it has not been updated since April.

www.eastbayvivarium.com has them on their price list for sale for $100

Those are the only two I can find.
 
Albuquerques

Those were Albuquerque locality New Mexico milks (celaenops) that I produced back then. I'm surprised that you can't find any out there, as I produced well over 400 of them, and they did, in fact, triple clutch quite easily for me. The babies also did very well on pinks.

I'm sorry I don't have any names of who might have them, but they surely must be out there. Another guy who posts here has a bigger challenge, he is seeking some of the undescribed milks I worked with, and those were a small group, hopefully not lost forever. Good luck in your search.
 
KcTrader said:
I know this is a 6yr old thread but I am just wondering if anyone was able to track down any of these animals?
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I guess not Jimmy. Sadly (as we both already know), it's like so many other locality-specific snakes over the years.

They probably got gradually traded-off for Ball Pythons that had a different colored scale on them or something. You know, new "cutting-edge" morphs..LOL!


~Doug
 
Isn't that the honest truth. I am glad I found some of the old lines when I did. We both know some of them may have been lost forever also....I will continue to look for them, I'm sure one day they may pop up.
 
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