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LizardMom
at Tue May 2 07:00:07 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LizardMom ]
Maybe I can help shed some light on the bloodred issue, as I have done a lot of research on them.
The original bloodreds were said to hatch very small and were very hard to get to feed, hence a lot of them did not survive. The original bloodreds were outcrossed to other snakes in an effort to get a hardier snake. To a certain extent, that worked, but, as Paul stated above, once they were outcrossed, it was almost impossible to get the dark red color back. As Paul states, a lot of the current bloodreds that stem from that old stock are rather orange in comparison to the originals.
There are still some of the original old stock bloodreds around, but most of them are up in years now.
There is, however, a new line of the old-style bloodreds being bred from some wildcaught specimens that were found somewhat close to the supposed location where the originals were found.
This new line throws much hardier babies that are easy to get to feed. And they are as dark and patternless as the originals!
I'm proud to say that I am the lucky one who saw his breeder female and recognized her as exactly what everyone had described the original bloodreds as looking like. The gentleman who is breeding them was not aware of how special his bloodreds were. He is now (!), as several of the better known breeders got babies from him after I told them what he had.
Leslie
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RE: Maybe I did not totally get it? - LizardMom, Tue May 2 07:00:07 2006