Last year I crossed my amel/hypo(?) yellow/glades(?) with a greenish and a gulf hammock. The babies came out pretty much as expected in terms of coloration.

This year I crossed my two-year old hypo glades with the greenish rat and South Florida yellow.

Well, the greenish just hatched, and MAN they are dark. If I didn't know any better, I'd think they were black rat babies! I just think it's odd that such a light snake ("pure" no less, as there is always debate on my amel yellow being pure) would sire such dark kids.

On a side note, this is my first Florida production, and used no electric incubator, just a shoebox with moss and forest bedding on a closet floor. Worked great! Babies hatched when expected and no kinking from temp fluctuations. Dig them!

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• dark babies?! hypo glades x greenish - fliptop, Sat Aug 8 03:50:50 2009
• RE: dark babies?! hypo glades x greenish - DMong, Sat Aug 8 17:29:32 2009
• RE: dark babies?! hypo glades x greenish - fliptop, Sun Aug 9 03:42:52 2009
• RE: dark babies?! hypo glades x greenish - DMong, Sun Aug 9 11:56:54 2009