Some before
and after pix showing the development of pattern and colour from juvenile to
adult Russian Ratties...


Ruskie 1


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Ruskie 2


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Ruskie 3


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Ruskie 4


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Ruskie 5


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They are really nice. Ruskie 4 is my preferred.

Merci! I think mine are No.s 2 & 3, they have the most yellow and cleaner blacks, which will only get more pronounced as they age on all of them.

Many thanks.

niceee thanks to share .and welcome on the forum

My pleasure, many thanks for the warm welcome.

Hopefully I'll be sharing some more pictures of some Ladder snake eggs soon ... I hope!

are they Elaphe schrenki ? they are beautiful!

They are indeed. A couple of them are had unusual patterning when young, but they are colouring up as you'd expect Elaphe schrencki to do so as they mature.

Nice Snakes , I think you love them ?? Right ?? From what Part Of Russia Are they ?? Will you try to reproduce them soon ?

Unfortunately I couldn't give a locale, these are captive bred and many generations in captivity. Two of them have come from Tula (in Russia), they were bred there. The rest are from captive stock without locality data too I'm afraid.

I'll be waiting at least another year, maybe two before I'll try to breed from them. I do love them, but not like me Rhinechis scalaris I plan on taking over the world with!