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Bayer Herpetoculture I'm a small scale herpetoculturist who specializes in Latin American milk snakes. I also keep select boas, corns, kings, and hognose. Many ssp.
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I began keeping, collecting, and breeding snakes back in 1997. Over the years I've kept everything from garters to carpet pythons and everything in between, but in approx. 2010 I really got hit hard with the milk bug and decided to make Triangulum my main focus. I've spent the last several years learning all I can about milk snakes and have spent a great deal of time not only tracking down hard to

find subspecies and lines within a subspecies, but really attempting to appreciate all the variation that is often overlooked in this group of snakes. I'm currently keeping abnorma (Guatemalan milk), annulata (Mexican milk), sinaloae (Sinaloan milk), nelsoni (Nelson's milk), arcifera (Jalisco/ Lago de Chapala milk), campbelli (Pueblan milk), conanti (Conant's milk), oligozona (Pacific Central American milk), polyzona (Atlantic Central American milk), blanchardi (Blanchard's milk), hondurensis (Honduran milk), stuarti (Stuart's milk), gaigeae (Black milk), micropholis (Ecuadorian milk), and andesiana (Andean milk). in my collection are made up of pure locale specific animals and in some cases represented by more than one line. I of course have a few pure but generic (no locale info) animals, and some animals that aren't truly pure, but the best the hobby has to offer at the moment such as with my micropholis. Outside of milks I currently keep Argentine boas, Dumeril's boas, Mexican Hognose, various locale and morph desert king snakes, locale California king snakes, and locale and hobby Okeetee corn snakes. I truly strive to give my animals the best care possible and put their health and well-being before all else. The great care provided, researched line history, and use of breeders selectively acquired allows me to confidently claim that the animals I provide to buyers are some of the absolute best available on the market. I refuse to sell or even keep any "B-grade" animal and that standard gets passed along to any customer.

Hypo Pueblans. I think some of the originals were legit. There are probably legit ones still around but since so many ke...
07/08/2024

Hypo Pueblans. I think some of the originals were legit. There are probably legit ones still around but since so many keepers are brainless goobers who breed all manner of things without bothering to know what they even have/are selling, who knows?! This is one of mine that I personally think at least looks the part. Nothing about this animal looks anything but Pueblan, but I'd never sell its offspring as pure because I just don't know and I'm not a slimy thief.

La Garita, Costa Rica stuarti. Mmm boy!
16/07/2024

La Garita, Costa Rica stuarti. Mmm boy!

The Limon Province/San Antonio Zoo line Black milks came through.  13 enormous eggs, they just look small next to this g...
14/07/2024

The Limon Province/San Antonio Zoo line Black milks came through. 13 enormous eggs, they just look small next to this gigantic milksnake. She's very reliably cranked out 15 to 17 in about 8 prior clutches. Maybe at 14 years old fertility has dropped slightly.

I do work with a handful of things that arent Milk Snakes, believe it or not. Ive got a pair of Russian Rats that are si...
05/07/2024

I do work with a handful of things that arent Milk Snakes, believe it or not. Ive got a pair of Russian Rats that are sitting around 4-4.5 feet right now and should be ready to produce next year. These animals are pretty dark as is and are both double het axanthic and melanistic. They should make some very black offspring. These Russians fall into the category of not being appropriate for tub/rack caging in my opinion. They are extremely active and bask in natural sunlight multiple times throughout the day.

Lago de Chapala locale Jalisco Milksnake supervises her cage cleaning. Remember, as with most milks, not all Jaliscos ar...
31/05/2024

Lago de Chapala locale Jalisco Milksnake supervises her cage cleaning. Remember, as with most milks, not all Jaliscos are Jaliscos. Line history matters. When buying, demand it from the breeder.

Providencia locale Black Milks came through. Potential offspring will be F3s. This line represents the only line in capt...
30/05/2024

Providencia locale Black Milks came through. Potential offspring will be F3s. This line represents the only line in captivity from the Pacific slope of Costa Rica and comes with GPS data for the collection point of founder stock. Really special stuff thanks to the efforts of Jeff Hardwick.

I was just chatting with someone who has attained a large enough collection that thawing rodents has become a messy chor...
14/04/2024

I was just chatting with someone who has attained a large enough collection that thawing rodents has become a messy chore. So I showed them how I do it and they thought it was fantastic. Im sure plenty of people do something similar, but this works for me and Im able to easily thaw 50+ adult mice, 4 colossal rats, or like today just a random assortment of things. I drill holes in a 5 gal bucket and place it into another bucket that is filled with hot water, then add the frozen prey. I wait an hour or so for things to thaw (double check by givng the stomach/chest a few pokes to make sure its soft. Then slowly lift the interior bucket to drain the water. Then I set the bucket on top of the water filled bucket at an angle so everything drips dry and doesn't get huge amounts of substrate stuck to it. Clean-up is just dumping a bucket in the backyard, quick spray with hydrogen peroxide, then rinsing the bucket with a hose. Super easy. Hopefully this can help someone thats getting messy or wasting TONS of paper towels.

This little annulata has some serious red bands. Will be on the hunt for a mate that has similar colors.
26/03/2024

This little annulata has some serious red bands. Will be on the hunt for a mate that has similar colors.

How the hell did this thing get in here!?
11/02/2024

How the hell did this thing get in here!?

The calm before the storm (of f***s) with little micropholis.
18/01/2024

The calm before the storm (of f***s) with little micropholis.

Put the Argentines together today. The male promptly gave the female a not so friendly nip but then settled down and sta...
26/11/2023

Put the Argentines together today. The male promptly gave the female a not so friendly nip but then settled down and started putting the moves on her.

My longest ever milk incubation, 96 days. About 70-76 is typical for me with the larger milks. The one went bad about 2 ...
05/11/2023

My longest ever milk incubation, 96 days. About 70-76 is typical for me with the larger milks. The one went bad about 2 weeks ago but seeing how a little fuzzy stuff will NOT hurt good eggs, it stayed.

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