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by Daryl Eby
December 2nd, 2011, 6:43 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: First Captive breeding of Hellbenders!!!
Replies: 23
Views: 5462

Re: First Captive breeding of Hellbenders!!!

jeffro wrote:Found this picture on yahoo; the soon to hatch hellbenders:
Cute little boogers.
by Daryl Eby
December 2nd, 2011, 2:18 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Protesters fight back with snakes
Replies: 0
Views: 1359

Protesters fight back with snakes

I guess that's one way to deal with the tax man. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/30/india-corruption-protest-snakes-tax-office?newsfeed=true Two farmers fed up with bribery demands have dumped three sacks filled with snakes on the floor of a busy tax office in northern India. The 40 or so s...
by Daryl Eby
December 2nd, 2011, 6:56 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Off season silliness - quotes on herps, herpers & herping
Replies: 49
Views: 11760

Re: Off season silliness - quotes on herps, herpers & herpin

"Does it bite?" -My friend Jimmy "Never has." -My reply About a second later, the snake (5' Central Texas Whipsnake) bit him on the lip. "Does it bite?" -a former girlfriend "Never has." -My reply A few seconds later, the snake (4' Burmese Python) crapped all...
by Daryl Eby
December 1st, 2011, 5:50 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Snake feed conversion ratio Q.
Replies: 8
Views: 2584

Re: Snake feed conversion ratio Q.

Bob wrote:Are those real.....
They look real. I'd have to handle them to be sure.
by Daryl Eby
December 1st, 2011, 1:34 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Maybe a dumb question....
Replies: 35
Views: 6349

Re: Maybe a dumb question....

ThatFrogGuy wrote:Why is it that amphibians can survive in and are much less susceptible to colder temperatures than reptiles?
As a Texan, I often wonder the same thing about Canadians. Maybe they just don't know enough to come in out of the cold.
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 9:12 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?
Replies: 20
Views: 9645

Re: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?

I also must design a barrier from muskrats which my dad had a problem with this year, although I think he took "care of them". But I thought lining the "basement" floor and wall of the den with chicken wire, and possibly cement, just to keep a barrier from the den and the pond, ...
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 8:49 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?
Replies: 20
Views: 9645

Re: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?

Hey Daryl, I'm just blown away by all your perceptive and detailed plans for creating the hibernaculum ...sounds like you've studied the problems intentfully. ...very interesting as well. :thumb: 8-) Thanks Monklet. I have given it considerable thought but never tried it. My comments were really fa...
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 5:48 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Borneo Dispatches #17: Oriental Whipsnake
Replies: 13
Views: 5736

Re: Borneo Dispatches #17: Oriental Whipsnake

Daryl Eby wrote:Area 51 became to well known.
Dooh! "To", "too". I always get those tew mixed up. Especially on Twosday.
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 5:06 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?
Replies: 20
Views: 9645

Re: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?

Additional thoughts: You'll probably want to limit airflow to prevent excessive heat loss. You could do this by packing soil or other substrate into most of the vertical crevices. Leave some open, obviously, but try to stagger the openings so there are no direct airways extending from the top to bot...
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 3:22 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?
Replies: 20
Views: 9645

Re: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?

You will need a lot more rock than you're showing here. Check with your local concrete company. They will be glad to let you haul off as many chunks of over spilled or "clean-out" concrete as you want. They may even be able put you in touch with a local builder that needs a place to dump h...
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 3:07 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Off season silliness - quotes on herps, herpers & herping
Replies: 49
Views: 11760

Re: Off season silliness - quotes on herps, herpers & herpin

"Hold my beer while I try this" -Said by countless idiots immediately prior to envenomation. "There's something crawling up my leg. THERE'S SOMETHING ON MY LEG. IT'S STINGING ME! " -Said by my good friend Jimmy Forester as a scorpion crawled up his pants and stung him. This state...
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 2:51 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?
Replies: 20
Views: 9645

Re: A small start to a winter project..making a den site?

Good idea. Lots of work. I've thought of doing something like that. However, my area is so full of rock outcrops and natural deep retreats that it would be nearly impossible to build something better than nature has already provided. If I was to try building a den I'd start with considering the foll...
by Daryl Eby
November 30th, 2011, 10:23 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Borneo Dispatches #17: Oriental Whipsnake
Replies: 13
Views: 5736

Re: Borneo Dispatches #17: Oriental Whipsnake

klawnskale wrote:BTW, it's Area 51 i think you're referring to.
Naw. Area 51 became to well known. All the cool stuff is now at 52. Don't tell anyone. :lol:
by Daryl Eby
November 29th, 2011, 6:01 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Kinda slow day in AZ...
Replies: 9
Views: 1582

Re: Kinda slow day in AZ...

by Daryl Eby
November 28th, 2011, 7:38 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: are you freaking kidding me
Replies: 34
Views: 4563

Re: are you freaking kidding me

My dog is terrified.
by Daryl Eby
November 28th, 2011, 7:15 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: are you freaking kidding me
Replies: 34
Views: 4563

Re: are you freaking kidding me

I'm sure the government will buy it.

by Daryl Eby
November 28th, 2011, 1:23 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: are you freaking kidding me
Replies: 34
Views: 4563

Re: are you freaking kidding me

-EJ wrote:Through all this exchange... I have to ask... Those who have a backup plan... how did you come to developing it? Surely it's happened to you.
The smart members likely adopted a back-up plan after the first instance. It took me a few failed posts and several cuss words to figure it out.
by Daryl Eby
November 23rd, 2011, 8:13 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Press release - South Florida rainbow snake
Replies: 5
Views: 2727

Re: Press release - South Florida rainbow snake

Somebody rich please match this and make it an even grand....four figures will start to get people's attention. Maybe. However, too high a "bounty" might attract the wrong hunters or tempt typically ethical herpers to use unethical means. The last thing that is needed is for someone (or s...
by Daryl Eby
November 19th, 2011, 5:27 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Mystery snake....
Replies: 68
Views: 13514

Re: Mystery snake....

croteseeker wrote:C'mon, guys......It's C. bilineatus.
Tail doesn't look long enough IMO.
by Daryl Eby
November 17th, 2011, 8:38 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Mystery snake....
Replies: 68
Views: 13514

Re: Mystery snake....

Is it possible that the snake is partly hidden in a hole? The abrupt change in pattern and body position at the primary wound area is odd. Looks like it could possibly have been crawling into and then back out of a small hole right at that wound area when it was hit. If so, it could be considerably ...
by Daryl Eby
November 17th, 2011, 5:58 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Photo Caption Contest!!!
Replies: 25
Views: 4041

Re: Photo Caption Contest!!!

It might help to know the type of business.
by Daryl Eby
November 16th, 2011, 7:17 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Mystery snake....
Replies: 68
Views: 13514

Re: Mystery snake....

I was just trying to help/be inquisitive, and throw out hypotheses. Didn't expect to be ridiculed. Sorry for my opinion. Don't let Monklet's comments bother you. He ridicules everyone and everything. Very funny guy -unless you're the target of his humor I guess. The more I look at it, the stranger ...
by Daryl Eby
November 16th, 2011, 6:39 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Mystery snake....
Replies: 68
Views: 13514

Re: Mystery snake....

Did your neighbor give any type of description? Size, coloration, pattern, etc? I agree that it looks like a racer, but those pics are not much to go on. If he could confirm that it was too big to be a ground snake and positively did not have any stripes then the odds of it being a racer would go wa...
by Daryl Eby
November 16th, 2011, 5:31 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Photo Caption Contest!!!
Replies: 25
Views: 4041

Re: Photo Caption Contest!!!

"Anyone seen the mistletoe?"
by Daryl Eby
November 16th, 2011, 7:05 am
Forum: News
Topic: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school
Replies: 12
Views: 4918

Re: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school

Interesting that it says the trooper captured the snake ...nothing about killing it. Seems curiously and hopefully out of character very generally speaking. Maybe he is among the more enlightened of common folk in regards to wildlife etc. Your hopefulness is well placed. The video that accompanies ...
by Daryl Eby
November 16th, 2011, 5:23 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Really, has it come to this?
Replies: 190
Views: 36879

Re: Really, has it come to this?

what... specificly... is specific locality information. Hard to specify. Varies due to a variety of variables. Kind of ambiguous if you ask me... regardless... if you ask me for a location... I'll give it... and I hope the recipient would do the same. I'm thinking EJ is correct on this one, Daryl. ...
by Daryl Eby
November 15th, 2011, 5:56 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school
Replies: 12
Views: 4918

Re: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school

ugh wrote:This calls for a Texas sized roundup! :beer:
That's what I'm afraid of.
by Daryl Eby
November 15th, 2011, 5:51 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Really, has it come to this?
Replies: 190
Views: 36879

Re: Really, has it come to this?

-EJ wrote:what... specificly... is specific locality information.
Hard to specify. Varies due to a variety of variables.
by Daryl Eby
November 15th, 2011, 12:02 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school
Replies: 12
Views: 4918

Re: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school

Was the child actually envenomated? Sorry if I missed that. Based on the photos and comment in the video about "swelling" there was at least a mild envenomation. However, no tissue damage or necrosis is visible in the video. Just found a link to an earlier story on this same bite: http://...
by Daryl Eby
November 15th, 2011, 11:28 am
Forum: News
Topic: 8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school
Replies: 12
Views: 4918

8yo boy bitten by Rattlesnake at school

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Snakebite-Victim-Rattlesnake-Went-Tssss-With-Its-Tail-133856908.html?dr A Texas state trooper on Monday captured a rattlesnake at an Eastland elementary school -- four days after it bit a second-grader. The boy, 8-year-old Edwin Garcia, was released from a Fort Wort...
by Daryl Eby
November 15th, 2011, 8:59 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Is there a safe way to ask?
Replies: 27
Views: 5746

Re: Is there a safe way to ask?

I once had four BP officers park and watch me with binoculars for about 30 minutes while I was herping on MY OWN LAND. Worst part was, I really needed to take a dump. I think you should have gone ahead and taught them a lesson. LOL. It was never a question of crapping in their view (which would als...
by Daryl Eby
November 15th, 2011, 8:02 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Is there a safe way to ask?
Replies: 27
Views: 5746

Re: Is there a safe way to ask?

The biggest PITA when down by the border is all the border patrol checkpoints/convoys. It's hard to believe anything illegal goes on down there what with all the policing that goes on. Give me back the frontier! Same for my stretch of the border. I rarely see or even hear of any sign of illegal act...
by Daryl Eby
November 13th, 2011, 9:54 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Farancia erytrogramma seminola declared extinct by FWS
Replies: 99
Views: 15838

Re: Farancia erytrogramma seminola declared extinct by FWS

It does piss me off a little bit that one the secretary jobs they posted at our zoo last year paid over double my salary without a required degree That has to be a frustrating. Then again, I seriously doubt that many the kids passing through your zoo are dreaming of becoming a secretary. but no one...
by Daryl Eby
November 11th, 2011, 5:41 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: My End-Of-The-Year report...DU go make dinner
Replies: 26
Views: 4379

Re: My End-Of-The-Year report...DU go make dinner

Thanks for sharing the great photos of all those incredible animals Chris. Love the first molossus and obscurus shots. I'm guessing you tossed that dead K-rat to the molossus -every cool. I occasionally pick up DOR rodents and offer them to any hungry snakes I see. This year, they've been much more ...
by Daryl Eby
November 11th, 2011, 8:07 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Thank You for Your Service !
Replies: 4
Views: 857

Re: Thank You for Your Service !

Just read this comment in an email. Says it all.

We are the land of the free because of the brave.
by Daryl Eby
November 11th, 2011, 7:54 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Thank You for Your Service !
Replies: 4
Views: 857

Thank You for Your Service !

Happy Veteran's Day and everlasting thanks to all of you who have served or are currently serving in the armed forces. I never had to serve, because others volunteered. I live in peace, because others suffered through hell. I am alive, because others gave their lives. Thank you! http://www.youtube.c...
by Daryl Eby
November 10th, 2011, 7:11 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Timber Rattlesnakes Part I: Teaser
Replies: 26
Views: 4117

Re: Timber Rattlesnakes Part I: Teaser

Very cool post. Thanks for sharing and being open to discuss what you obviously knew would be a controversial topic on this forum. This was year 6 (+/-1 I don't remember precisely) of the project, and many of the snakes have been tracked the entire time. Each snake is processed before he enters the ...
by Daryl Eby
November 10th, 2011, 2:26 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Really, has it come to this?
Replies: 190
Views: 36879

Re: Really, has it come to this?

Not really fair to talk about the dude in absentia. Far worse things were said to/about him when he was here. I'd like to see him return. The slam-fests just aren't as entertaining without him. Also, his turtle and salamander posts were simply amazing. Heck, nearly all of his trip reports were epic.
by Daryl Eby
November 9th, 2011, 6:45 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Really, has it come to this?
Replies: 190
Views: 36879

Re: Hmmm, It's even worse than thought

lets not forget the massasauga debacle I'd like to see a recap and update on that situation. I know some dude posed as an observer type herper in order to trick people into trusting him and then used the info and locations he gathered to poach some protected saugas. It would be very useful for one ...
by Daryl Eby
November 9th, 2011, 3:46 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Really, has it come to this?
Replies: 190
Views: 36879

Re: Really, has it come to this?

I also didn't realize how many posts you had to go through to get that info... case in point. Easier than you think. I only had to review seventeen of your posts to find those thirteen examples. The other four also used the term. :P It's amazing what you can find if you know where/how to look. I co...
by Daryl Eby
November 9th, 2011, 3:05 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Snake ID, Texas
Replies: 7
Views: 1167

Re: Snake ID, Texas

mikemike wrote:Absolutely prairie king.
Or maybe one of those king/rattler hybrids. Looks like someone cut off the rattle. :crazyeyes: :crazyeyes: :crazyeyes:
by Daryl Eby
November 9th, 2011, 1:21 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Really, has it come to this?
Replies: 190
Views: 36879

Re: Really, has it come to this?

Really, has it come to this? We all have our little... and not so little pet quirks... mine is rude anal retentive control freaks on the internet A topic for the anal retentive If there is an error... the anal retentive will pay attention I get a giggle out of putting it to another anal retentive in...
by Daryl Eby
November 8th, 2011, 4:16 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Near Fatal Timber Bite
Replies: 28
Views: 4953

Re: Near Fatal Timber Bite

I cannot in good conscience vote his the 'best essay' until I read the rest of the entries. Any encouragement to do otherwise is (IMO) morally questionable... :( jim Check out the rules. You're not voting the "best essay". Your voting for your favorite(s) and no criteria is mandated on ho...
by Daryl Eby
November 7th, 2011, 1:33 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Herpin' music?
Replies: 40
Views: 5787

Re: Herpin' music?

Anyone planning to join the search for South Florida Rainbows should take inspiration from this classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2wipgFDEgA

Of course, the rockers will prefer this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puj78z8u1Rk
by Daryl Eby
November 6th, 2011, 8:56 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Farancia erytrogramma seminola declared extinct by FWS
Replies: 99
Views: 15838

Re: Farancia erytrogramma seminola declared extinct by FWS

Josh Holbrook wrote:there have been 3 found - 1 by Ross Allen and 2 by Wilfred T Niell IN THE SAME NIGHT
DOUBLE RAINBOW! OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. So bright and vivid. Too much. Oh my god. So intense.
by Daryl Eby
November 5th, 2011, 2:29 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Canebrake dens?
Replies: 130
Views: 28443

Re: Canebrake dens?

It makes sense to me to let scientific data determine the scientific names and let common usage determine the common names. If the two correspond, great. If not, big deal. If someone calls a low land C horridus a C h atricaudatus correcting them is justified and makes perfect sense. If they call it ...
by Daryl Eby
October 31st, 2011, 5:59 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: An uncomfortable question
Replies: 66
Views: 7192

Re: An uncomfortable question

One other thing to consider when moving herps off the road (whether live, dead, or injured) is to leave a scent trail. I used to just pick them up and move them. However, I have since heard many reports, and seen at least one instance myself, of other snakes being found where the original snake had ...
by Daryl Eby
October 30th, 2011, 8:20 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Is there a "breeder" forum
Replies: 1
Views: 417

Re: Is there a "breeder" forum

There is a Herpetoculture sub-forum. I don't hang out there, so I don't know what the rules or opinions are regarding listings.
by Daryl Eby
October 30th, 2011, 12:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: I've had it w/ MF snakes in the MF glades eating the MF deer
Replies: 0
Views: 1205

I've had it w/ MF snakes in the MF glades eating the MF deer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45083208/ns ... qzu3bKOvKO

The story is interesting. The comments are both amusing and depressing.
by Daryl Eby
October 29th, 2011, 1:27 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Serious Question
Replies: 49
Views: 10614

Re: Serious Question

azatrox wrote:So there's now about a million and a half pictures on this thread and not one showing a snake with a keratin appendage on it's tail?!?
Here ya go ... ImageNot my photo. Linked from here.