What I call webbing (what I use to call dirty bands) are bands where the dark base color exists on the edges of the scales of the light band scales, making a web.



The Cal Kings in East Contra Costa County exhibit this type of banding (as well as other locales).



Here is my male:







You can see his brown color around the edges of the cream scales.



I breed him to a banded amel female with vibrant yellow bands (best after shed - and it has been awhile). Here's her bands:







Because she's amel, it may be hard to notice any webbing if it did exist, but it looks to me like it does not.



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Out of their 5 young last year, I held back two females.

The first to hatch and the fifth to hatch.



Here is the first - and I find this exciting:







Her bands are definitely yellow like her mothers bands though not quite as vivid, but they are also webbed like daddy's bands. Webbing to me anyway looks a lot better on yellow than it does on cream.



Her sister -







I'll try to replace that with a better pic.

Anyway - her bands are much more like fathers in colour, but very little webbing if any.



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Anyway - from that pairing, I'm holding back a male this year.

I have no idea how yellow he will end up or how much webbing he will have - but if he isn't like big sister, I'll hold back another male in '08 etc. until I get a male to match her.



Unfortunate byproduct is that some of the F2s will be amel, but only a quarter of them.



Anyway - I really like the effect of webbing on yellow bands, and I think it would be kind of neat to try to line breed some that have a really vivid yellow with very distinct webbing.



Not something I intended to produce with the pairing, just kind of neat that it happened. I find it really attractive.
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11.14 L. getula californiae (Cal. King)

2.3 L. getula nigrita (MBK)

1.0 L. getula floridana (Brooksi)

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