Several years ago after I acquired the first Peanut Butter group from the original breeder I came to this forum and asked what to call this new hypo-ish morph.

Now at the time I knew it was a hypo but the first hypo already came along 3 years earlier and I figured since that name was already taken that my fellow forumites would be able to pick a name a little bit more interesting. Several names were suggested . A vote was cast and and the majority went to the name "Peanut butter". The Peanut Butter name won out by a overwhelming majority. So Peanut Butter would be the name of this new morpsh which I was trying to popularize.

So, I never picked the name myself and I thought it was a bit cheesy and kooky. But, better than "coffee" or "hypo type II" and some of the other suggestions which were not as direct as the Peanut Butter name.

Anyway, today I am glad they did choose this name "Peanut Butter" and I sold these as Peanut butter because little did I know later on how different this trait would be.

When I did the first breeding of the Peanut butter to a T negative albino (the T negative albino was also new to herpetoculture back then) I thought I would get double hets normals.

I assumed when I bred the Peanut butter to the T -negative I would get normal looking Floridas that were double hets and would have to raise those up in the next 2-3 years to breed to each other to hit that special 1 in 16 chance of getting a double homo.

What happened instead was a complete surprise and puzzle. An intermediate form popped out of the eggs in this first generation ....because it came from the Peanut butter and I knew that there was nothing in kingsnake genetics (or any genetics anywhere I knew of at that time) that could do this. I quickly and aptly named these prodjeny " Jelly" . It was perfect because no other trait in kingsnakes does what these two and especially what the Jelly does when bred to another Jelly or back to a Peanut Butter or back to a T negative.

The rest is history. Basically these traits is what caused an interest and resurgence in the Florida king group and made them more popular than ever before.

ever since then a lot of folks have had a hard time twisting their minds on how these three traits actually work and that they all can breed each other and make variants. Many a breeder has had the possibility of creating new morphs yet not breeding the snakes in their collection to each other because they still did did not know how these traits work together.

It gets especially complicated (or rather hard to understand) when combined with more recessive traits like Hypo and axanthic or Anery and lavender ect.

Anyway, long story short.. here is a Jelly


Jelly

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FR quote:
"Doing the same things over and over expecting to learn something else, is the definition of insanity"

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