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terryp
at Tue Aug 5 10:44:59 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by terryp ]
You pick up a w/c juvenile striped yellow ratsnake. That means it didn't start out with blotches or pattern, it already has stripes. An adult albino yellow ratsnake doesn't have stripes, but generally retains remnants of the juvenile pattern. An adult albino quadrivittata isn't completely patternless I thought. You don't want to use an albino yellow ratsnake because that defeats the purpose of not having juvenile pattern. You don't take a patternless snake and breed it back to the patterned one. You do have your own bubblegum ratsnakes that you produce. You produce your bubblegums by breeding the amel Marcia Lincoln everglades bloodline with an amel blackratsnake. You know your bubblegums are in the obsoleta complex. Your Marcia Lincoln is pure everglades having been inbred for 30 years now. There is no yellow ratsnake influence in the bubblegum. If there was then the yellow ratsnake influence would again try to retain some of the juvenile pattern. You breed the bubblegum to the w/c ratsnake that doesn't have any juvenile pattern. You possibly can produce a patternless, stripeless, yellow/orange, yellow, orange, etc pure obsoleta complex ratsnake. Sounds like a project that is worth the time and effort to me.
>>Since albino quadrivittata lose their juvenile pattern and become patternless bright yellow ratsnakes as adults, what is the advantage of having a patternless hatchling? I would think that it will eventually look more or less the same as it's albino het siblings. It's kinda like producing an aberrant gaigeae, looks cool but eventually it wont matter.
>> It definitely looks different as a hatchling but wouldn't it end up being patternless eventually anyway? I'm just trying to figure out why it would be necessary to breed a black ratsnake x everglades (bubblegum) to a striped yellow ratsnake to produce almost the same exact look as a adult albino yellow ratsnake.
>> I don't mean to criticize the project...just kinda curious about the appearance of this snake as an adult.
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
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Let's see . . . . .> - terryp, Tue Aug 5 10:44:59 2003