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Species ID (House Snake)

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Here is my beauties, all breeding age just one problem. I still havent figured which species they are. I was thinking black house (Lamprophis Inornatus)maybe?

Can anyone tell me what house snake these are? they are completly patternless, no eye lines, and they are blue when they are in shed. ive had them over a year now and they were adults before i got them.

http://img340.imageshack.us/i/lotuso.jpg/
http://img180.imageshack.us/i/mikig.jpg/
http://img641.imageshack.us/i/maverick.jpg/

Miki is in shed in the 2nd pic, but he is a bit blue when he's not. weird, but pretty.

Thanks guys!
 
This is just a copy of my post over on the Lamprophis proboards:

Definitely the dark phase of L. fuliginosus. I have a pair myself.

Often these are sold as "olive" house snakes, which tends to lead to confusion, making one think they are actually L. olivaceus (which are pretty rare in the U.S.)

They are sometimes referred to as "black" house snakes, which occasionally makes one believe they are L. inornatus, which is sometimes called the black house snakes, and also rare in captivity).

As most species have some form of a dark phase, I recently started to refer to these snakes as "purple" house snakes, as they often take on a purple/midnight blue coloration.
 
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