• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Snout scalation Corallus caninus

K

Keith Campbell

Terrarium Pets
Joined
Feb 24, 2006
Messages
23
Reaction score
1
Points
0
Age
49
Location
Mid. TN
Are there more than two different snout scalation patterns found in C. caninus? I've seen pictures of Amazon basin morphs with many smaller scales on snout, and northern morph with the larger scales on the snout. I've personally seen another emerald with snout scalation pattern having fewer and larger scales on it's snout that I've not seen pictured in any publications. Is this something odd or just another version of a nothern? Does anyone have any info or pics. on this subject?
 

Attachments

  • snout scales small.jpg
    snout scales small.jpg
    32.5 KB · Views: 128
  • down sized.jpg
    down sized.jpg
    30.3 KB · Views: 103
I've seen animals like these before, not many but I did notice the difference. My thoughts are that you have the Amazon Basin local at one end and the Guyanan or Northern Local at the other. Basins tend to be bigger and stockier and the farther north you go the slimmer Emeralds seem to be(and nippier). I have a HY baby with the bigger scales like in your second photo. Just can't get a decent photo of the little guy or I'd post one. It is interesting to see the differences in these guys. Randy
 
Thanks for some info. I'm wondering how many etbs out there have the lager+fewer snout scales? The pics. are my two imports the female pic.1,the male pic.2. The male is new, I just yanked a good 50 ticks off of him and fixed up a bit of mouth rot. I'll see how their disposition is in the future. I hope those big snout scales don't mean nasty attitude, yet so far he's been nothing to work on so far. They are both the same size+age, I may put them together in the future if they acclimate.
 
Back
Top