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FunkyRes
at Sun Jun 15 22:00:07 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FunkyRes ]
I'd love a brooksi like that - that's like what they use to sell at EBV in the 80s.
This is my brooksi, which is more of a brown -
With respect to the wild type description - this is from the 1st edition of Conant, when they were still considered a distinct subspecies:
Palest of the large Kingsnakes. Each individual dorsal scale is yellowish or cream-colored at base and brown at apex. Indications of light crosslines are sometimes present, especially in neck region. Belly is cream to pale yellow with spots of tan or pinkish brown.
From that description, the one I have definitely meets the description - while the ones that the pet trade favored in the 80s were the more yellowish phenotype.
Mine is het for PB from Nokturnal Tom and may have locality genetics (since the PBs that Rainer has are locale, and I *think* Tom got his from Rainer). Tom could answer that.
I want a yellow one like yours though :D
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RE: old school Brooksi - FunkyRes, Sun Jun 15 22:00:07 2008