Yes the male was wild. There was another male lined up but he was drab in color, and I didn't like his markings. The male pictured showed up on my door step one morning, sunning himself. I picked him up, called the breeder and she came over to look at him. I asked her to sex him and see if he looked over all healthy. she gave the ok and gave me the idea to put him with my female. Seeing that she too was from the wild at one point in time and was not able to be returned I figured it wouldn't hurt for them to breed.

She had been hit by a bike and her head was crushed. Her jaw doesn't open the way it should to deliver the proper bite. small grubs are now her main meal items. She had to be fed with tweezers so she can properly bite the meal item.

Ground snakes have a mildly toxic venom that they use to bite larger prey items and then they track the prey and eat the dead or dieing insect.

Also Ground snakes come in 3 color phases; Over all tan with a black head or black dot on the head, tan base color with full red dorsal stripe and black across the head, and tan lower body with black and orange saddles.

( I really should have added all of that in the first post but I was trying not to jump out of my skin about the eggs.)