just some pics of Eastern Coral Snake. Micrurus fulvius

I noticed there's not any eastern coral photos here so I thought Id post a few. I had a few over the years, kept them in large plastic bins with cypress mulch, sphagum moss and leaf litter with a 2 moist hide boxes on opposite sides, hot side was 85f cool was 73f. I had one that ate pinkie mice and lived for four years, the rest lived around 2 and fed on small skinks and snakes. I love these snakes and hope to find a few more this spring. Enjoy

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Hmmm... Interesting. Thanks for posting this, Mr. McGill. If it's possible, please let us know if you find and can photograph any in situ specimens in their natural habitat this Spring. Sincerely, Jon Davidson .

I sure will, best time to find them is after a good rain shower either early morning or dusk, crossing roads or under debris.

Nice. Would be very interesting if You could tell us more about how they behave in Your captivity.
Cheers,
Guenter

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I like these a lot. It's good to hear that you have had some success, I was reading a book the other day in which the author was saying it can be very difficult.

What's the deal with the A.V stocks over there now?

Good looking corals.
I'll be putting in a lot of effort trying to find some TX corals in southern Arkansas this spring.

Thanks everyone!
Guenter the corals Ive kept were very secretive but also curious, during the day they would stay hidden mostly and at night they would forage around the tank in search for food, I would place the small skinks in a clear Tupperware food tub that was to high for them to escape and I could make sure the snakes were eating without having to sift through the substrate. Most of them Ive tried to keep refuse all food offered and I have tried a lot of different prey,such as ground skinks, blue tailed skinks, green anoles, fence lizards, glass lizards, worms,small minnows, and any small snake(they seem to prefer smooth scaled snakes over keeled scaled snakes) and their favorite prey seems to be the scarlet snake, The only coral I had that ate pinkies started out on scarlet snake scented pinks. I have a bunch of road killed scarlet's in the freezer ready for the next coral I find. as for the temper most are calm and Ive never had one strike, most just sit on the hook calmly, but when their stressed they thrash about with their mouth open and latch on to anything they can. I seem to have better luck keeping them in large tubs because they are quite active and I can keep the humidity around 60%. they don't really climb but I kept sticks in the tubs to give them something to climb over and explore and it seemed like they like to explore new things at night,flicking their tongue out and spending time around the new rock, stick or hide box, to keep them busy I moved some thing around except for their favorite hide spots. I'm glad yall like them and as soon as I catch some more I will post pics of setups for you. Thanks again Laughing

Owen Roberts, not a lot of corals are milked because they are hard to keep alive and the antivenin is getting pretty hard to find nowadays, guess I have to try my hardest not to get bit! Safety Safety Safety I haven't been bit by any venomous yet and I'm going to try and keep it that way.
lol!

Hi Trevor,
beautiful pictures!!!!
I really like Micrurus, if you look at my introduction ( http://www.venomland.net/t1815-hallo-from-san-marino ) there is a picture of my female, I bought three years ago to Hamm by Galdes Herp and I hope to have more soon. She eats mainly elaphe guttata dead or alive, was very shy at first, now it is too hungry to browse through the glass while working in my room, and eats dead snakes offered with forceps.
At what temperature you kept them in the winter?
Thank's
Ale

Alessandro your female is awesome ,as for cooling in the winter I kept a male and female cooled at 55 degrees Fahrenheit for three months and when I warmed them up got them fed good I placed them together and the female ate the male after he showed interest in her. Sad

guess it happens with snake eating elapidae
the others I didn't cool them because I wasn't going to breed them.

Great information Trevor and very interesting.
Thank You very much!
Kind regards,
Guenter

Thank's for the info Trevor.
I think it could happen, if I get the opportunity, and I hope, will give him a lot of food before you put them together:) I'd really like to grow the Micrurus baby:)

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That's good to hear Trevor!

I know bites are rare from these. Thanks for all the info.

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