I can't speak to the origin of the original bloodreds, except for the research I've done, and Kathy Love has already posted.

But I can speak to the new line of bloodreds, since I was the one who discovered that someone was breeding them, without even knowing what he had. I'm the one who clued Kathy and a few others into the new discovery.

The gentleman who is now breeding them did not even know that there was a difference between the bloodreds that he was breeding and the ones that others were breeding until I explained it to him. The nicest part of this discovery is that we can trace the line directly back to his original wildcaught snakes. The mother of mine, and of Kathy's, is an F1 female from wildcaught parents. The father of mine, and at least some of Kathy's is a wildcaught het bloodred. All of his wildcaughts were found within 1/4 mile of each other. I have photo documentation of all of them.

So, the new line, at least, is not hybrid. And I doubt very seriously that the original line was, either. As to Don Sonderberg's or Kathy's being hybrids; that's just silly....

Leslie

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