First thing first!
Rhett Butler is a
he ! LOL He was caught on Old Charleston Road in the middle of the day in in the summer of 1990. He was smaller then, but he's at least 15. He's been part of Davie Jone's breeding colony for most of that time, and I was able to purchase him a while back. Please don't ask what I paid, I'll have people asking me to buy beachfront property in Kansas!
His temperament is very calm, although he does have a strong feeding response (in other words, don't dangle a mouse in front of him!) and rattles when blue. But he's never bitten anyone to my knowledge.
Amel Aztec het blizzards are absolutely the most foul tempered, evil morph of corn man ever created! Just kidding, I have no earthly idea!
As for Okeetee temperament, my take is that they are often many fewer generations out of the wild. Some are flighty and rattle, some are very calm. I am just now starting to concentrate on breeding for temperament this year. I have held back several pretty snakes that just happened to be calm over the years, and will breed for just that trait. It's tough to tell with hatchlings, because they all are pretty spooky when "new to the world." At 3 months, you get a better idea of who bites, who whips about, and who is "cool."
Here comes that picture people are getting sick of!
