Silly man. You think that will work? I will happily sit here for 2 months until warm weather and he sees what bonus he gets this year. Then I have my eye on a magdalena plains or ortiz locale rosy boa and some water snakes. If the issues around underground reptiles are solved (let's not go there if you know what I'm talking about) I might order their inexpensive water snake(s) and some more anole lizards. Gotta make the shipping worth it.
Then he can feel like he stopped the snake influx over summer until my plan for natives this year is an already reserved "pick of the litter" kankakee bull. Darkest known wild population according to several people. He (or she and I could breed bulls in 3 years) would be cb. There's a pair of cb western fox snakes hanging out there but I'm going to be approaching snake rack status instead of display tanks at that point. I haven't decided where I want to draw the line for myself yet as I learn maintenance of various types of enclosures and sizes of snake.
Someone threw a wrench in some of my native species keeping plans by claiming a law the herpetologist consulted by several people because Iowa law is sketchy did not say existed. We were told provided the snakes were not on the endangered or threatened list they just had to be acquired out of state legally. You can't collect anything in the state. This person claims you can only own 1 pair. I tried to get clarity what he means by a pair. Breeding pair which would mean you then have a clutch in your hands for awhile equaling more than 2 snakes or that you can only have 2 snakes of a species? He failed to answer and seemed to get confused what the conversation was covering so I'm not confident on this Department of Natural Resources "in training" future worker over the consulted herpetologist specialist connected to the DNR.
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