azyecs....started by John Albrecht in Baltimore , MD...which you all know, or should, is the town of corn legend Rich Zuchowski....John would get strangely patterned corns from Rich and work on creating a complete pattern ,aka make a zigzag corn...same time Kathy Love was creating Zigzags...same thing only different.....John had some corns that were screaming for the time period....one female was an Aztecy looking female with a reverse okeetee coloration to her...sweet...he wouldn't sell her to me...he promised her to "Dan".......John had some normal aztec looking stuff...and bred these to make amels and normals...turnes out he had some from Zuchowski's new "Mocha" line...a single Mocha female existed at the time....John ended up with hets unknowingly...before we knew it was genetic....so...
John bred for zigzags....and got some cool stuff...normals,amels, and 3 weirdly brown snakes....???...connection was made by me to come buy some snakes...he tealls me about these brown things....asks if I wanted them?....uuuuuugh....yea...ok...surely!!!(what fun stuff huh this was)....went and ended up getting the 3 brown things....which ended up being named lavender by Tim Rainwater a few years later.....Lavender stuck...people liked that name...the term cocoa I used was dumped as well as mocha....I made lavs in 2 years...first time on a table!...cocoa corns...Hamburg...noone cared at all....no sale...another stupid brown snake they said...(yes a woman actually said ""OH look, another brown snakes""(almost as bad as ball pythons "another white snake"...so...I didn't make any the next year....Tim started Lav name...$400 each was obtained and I didn't make any that year.....figures...couldn't sell a new morph for $50 in Pa........so......so...I ended up making white opals and pink opals...no patterns....and selling one of each to Rich, who was in Florida now.....and then obtaining a bunch of "aztecs" from Dan,,,they had better ,consistant patterns than mine,some with full stripes and all....and selling the bst of the bst to Rich also.......

so.....Rich named them Aztecs....(they look like Aztec writings )
Rich named the opals....and Tim started the term lavender....

so this is why aztecs are all started with amel and lavender hets ,and possble hets.....all by chance....

all this started with animals from Rich (aztec,lavender,opal)....and the lav lines all started with one female 'brown' snake...from a single surviving egg....from a clutch , from a female...caught under a bridge.......

.......I need to go herping in Florida.....there gotta be a yellow 'gater out there somewhere...orange?.....

good luck all....!!!
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........JY

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