Yes, I can be in North Florida in about an hour, and South Mississippi in about 30 minutes. I plan to search those areas as well since nobody here has one off the top of their heads. I appreciate the advice on looking for local reptile groups and will probably start there. It's not that I wouldn't drive 3 hours if he needed treatment so much as I'd rather have help closer if he's in trouble. I am fortunate to have gotten a young animal who is very vibrant, healthy, and calm, so my feeling is that if he got sick enough to go to a vet I wouldn't want to have to wait that long for him to be seen.

I'm hoping not to have to resort to the random list calling because I am pretty new and don't know what to ask. I'm concerned about being on the bad end of one of those stories where the vet is technically qualified for all exotics, but doesn't really deal with snakes much. I wasn't sure if they had a subdivision of veterinary medicine like when you have birds you ask for an avian specialist.