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Oubaas

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I've retired from the military, acquired my first corn snake, and now the questions are starting to arise. Maybe the resident experts can enlighten me. Last time I kept snakes was as a kid, and that was a loooong time ago!

As I peruse the ads over at kingsnake.com, I notice a numbering system in use, such as:

0.1 Sonoran Gophers

1.1 Emory's Rat Snakes

2.0 Red-tailed Boas

...sort of like that, and so forth. How does that whole thing work?

Also, anyone have any experience keeping E. Obsoleta, and if so, any comments to someone considering the possibility?

Thanks, folks!

Oubaas ;)
 
The numbers are a sex ratio so 1.1 would mean one male and one female. 0.0.1 would mean one unsexed. First number is male, 2nd number is female and third number is unsexed. 3.2.1 would be 3males, 2females, 1 unsexed. Hope that helps!
 
Can't help with the second question but the number thing has to do with the sex of the snake usually followed by the morph.
I have one male butter 1.0.0.
I also have one unknown sex Amel 0.0.1
male.female.unknown.
I hope that helps a little.
 
Oubaas said:
Also, anyone have any experience keeping E. Obsoleta, and if so, any comments to someone considering the possibility?

Thanks, folks!

Oubaas ;)
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First off, I apologize for not giving you a "welcome aboard" sooner. I'm getting a bit slow in my old age :grin01:
As for obsoleta , I currently have 3 of them, albino black rat, grey rat and a WC yellow rat. Their care is no different from corns and all of mine are well adjusted and easily handled. They can be a bit nippy at first, but they generally calm down well and I highly reccomend them. Hope this helps :cheers:
 
I was given a free black rat as part of another purchase and he is quite a character! Being used to corns, I've found his care to be no different except I'm still not used to his eyes...they watch me - closely - and it's a tad un-nerving. My corns watch me as well, but a black rat's eyes , at least Harry's eyes, are a little different.
 
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Susan said:
I've found his care to be no different except I'm still not used to his eyes...they watch me - closely - and it's a tad un-nerving. My corns watch me as well, but a black rat's eyes , at least Harry's eyes, are a little different.
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I have a pair of black rats, and they are the same way, they always seem very aware of whats going on around them.

Like Susan and Mike said, Obsoleta care is the same as corns, they just tend to get a bit bigger :*)
 
Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for all the information, folks! You know, in all my efforts to figure out that number puzzle, the right answer is about the only data I didn't try to fit to those numbers, LOL!

I sort of figured obsoleta must be similar to corns. It's the rat snake I knew when I was a kid, and I wouldn't mind keeping one now that I'm all grown up and retired. The ones I remember seemed huge to me as a kid, but they were usually fairly calm and friendly shortly after being caught.

I wouldn't mind finding a captive bred obsoleta hatchling and giving him a home when we get fully settled in our new house. Right now, I've got Huey, my amel corn, my first snake since childhood. I think he's enough until the dust settles from the move. Luckily, Huey is a trouble-free, very sociable snake loved by the whole family, and an enthusiastic eater, to say the least.

Thanks again for taking the time to educate me, folks!

Oubaas ;)
 
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