Renee,

....Gary Walsh produced a litter in 2002 that had several of these strange looking snakes. Interestingly all of the odd looking ones in the litter were females. They had some degree of side striping and reduced pattern on top and head. This one was the strangest looking of the litter. All of them have been difficult feeders. I got two of the females. I had one that had a less odd pattern than this one but was bright orange. It also had small spinal kinks. It died last year. This one has been a picky eater all along and is perhaps now just big enough to breed. AFAIK this female is the only odd looking one that is still living from the litter. One of the other sisters out of the litter got traded around a couple times and ended up in a well known breeder's collection. It had a very very small litter of normal looking, but possibly het babies last year. He has one of the male babies and we plan to breed it to my female in a couple years. The female died after laying that small litter. If breeding that male to this female produces odd looking babies it will prove this as a heritable genetic trait. I saw Gary Walsh in 2003 and he said he had gotten rid of his collection because of health problems. He died sometime in 2004. We call these Walsh Clown Phase BRBs in his honor.

Jeff



>>Cool pattern! What exactly defines the "Clown" phase?

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>>Renee

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>>2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)

>>1.0 BRB (Loki)

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