For starters, thanks for the complements. I didn't expect to hear from you in particular. I'm glad you took the time to reply. I'm actually a much better photographer than the pictures allow you to see. I have an old decrepid Sony Mavica, FD (Fixed Disk) 1.3 mp camera. Basically the second digital mavica sony put out about 10 years ago that saves pictures on a diskette. I tape a "plus 4" lens adaptor for a true 35mm SLR camera over the lens of the mavica, tape a piece of paper or kleenex over the flash so I don't completely wash out the subject becaus I'm so close, I manually focus the camera to it's closest focal point and then I adjust how close I am to the subject so I don't bugger up any of the fine adjustments I made to my million doallar set-up by trying to re-focus the camera. Then I hope to god I can hold still long enough not to move the camera and blurr the image. I can't wait til I get a new camera here in a couple of months. Anyway here are a few pics that I snapped for you to critique. On top of all that mess I also managed to take some one-handed images for you. Phewwww!!!

Probable Hypo for comparison

Probable Ultra (Amel draped over the top)

Comparison shot 1 - Probable Ultra over Probable Hypo

Comparison shot 2 - Probable Ultra over Amel

Comparison shot 3 - Amel over Probable Ultra


Let me know what your verdict is. I have a pair of Ultra Ambers I picked up from Mike Falcon. It would be nice to have a few more Ultra's to work with.
Unfortunately, I lost the male Ghost the same day the babies were hatching out. He had been having problems keeping his food down for several months and I just couldn't get him turned around. He had been that way almost from the start. I think the place I got him from last year may have dumped him because of that. He was a very eager breeder with the two females he bred with last year. He really didn't show any signs of being an Ultra that I could tell but I never really looked that close (I have him in the freezer if I need to double check if you can even see that once they have been froozen). If he carried the Ultra Gene, I hope he passed it on to one of his Anery on Normal offspring. He only produced 1 Anery Male, 1 Pos Hypo Male, 1 Snow Male and one Amel Male. I do have the VMS Cornsnake morph/genetics guide.

Thanks

Chris

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• Need some opinions please - hiss_n_herps, Tue Feb 5 23:26:05 2008
• RE: Need some opinions please - draybar, Wed Feb 6 05:04:12 2008
• sorry for typos, above, its early...n/p - draybar, Wed Feb 6 05:05:44 2008
• RE: Need some opinions please - JasonW, Wed Feb 6 14:57:49 2008
• The EYES have it . . . - DonSoderberg, Wed Feb 6 08:16:10 2008
• Here are some closeups - hiss_n_herps, Wed Feb 6 23:41:58 2008
• Ultramels . . . - DonSoderberg, Thu Feb 7 09:38:22 2008
• RE: Ultramels . . . - hiss_n_herps, Thu Feb 7 23:21:52 2008
• RE: Need some opinions please - HerpZillA, Thu Feb 7 02:52:42 2008