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Jlassiter
at Thu Aug 27 08:44:05 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jlassiter ]
>>I would really like to know what is cooked into the hybrids to make them look melanistic, people have said Mexican Black Kings, but they in a sense are just melanistic desert kings and show some hint of that pattern as juveniles, or the "best ones" that are more jet black still tend to have light freckles on the chin and along the belly, at least as hatchlings.
Lance...I agree with you 200%....lol
Coincidentally I have been having this same conversation / argument with a few Mexicana enthusiasts lately....
The ones I saw DEFINITELY had Melanistic Thayeri in them for the Melanism....I was referring to the hybridization of the Amel gene from Ruthveni....
Also I am one who thinks that there was no such thing as a hybrid black thayeri because there is no way to make the cross without residual Splendida pattern.....It would take lots of generations to outcross that 'look'.....WHY BOTHER?
Now there ARE Hybrid Melanistic thayeri due to hybridizers wanting to produce solid white amelanistic thayeri ....Amel mels....Blizzards in other kingsnakes.....
But this cross is from Ruthveni for the amel gene...
It upsets me....nothing is sacred anymore.
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John Lassiter
"Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part....."
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RE: Just sort of musing here... - Jlassiter, Thu Aug 27 08:44:05 2009