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shannon brown
at Wed Sep 9 01:20:11 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by shannon brown ]
Man Doug,
I have been led to believe this whole time that all my hondurans where pure hondurensis.Now I find out that maybe they have other gene flow in them and could actually be part stuarti or abnorma or even polyzona????? that does it, I am selling them all really cheap and getting into pure morphs of brooksi,LOL.......
Lets just look at the three morphs that started it all.
The anery animal imported by Dave Doughrty way back when had alot of stuarti influence in it and the snake had NO locale data at all and was w/c.
The first albinos brought in the country by Luise Porras and BHB from two sources turned out to be from the same breeders and keyed out more polyzona than they did hondurensis and they where also w/c animals collected who knows where and they had NO locale data.
The first hypo was produced by a couple tangerine dreams.The dreams where produced by a male snake purchased in a pet store for $15.00 labled a coral snake by Bill Love.Bill said he knew it wasn't a coral and he purchased it just for fun.He said it looked liked a honduran and or abnorma and he then went and purchased a couple w/c females (again with NO locale data) out of a huge barrell that had the same type of "look".
So, I just can't figure out why you would think that all the hondos in the hobby are anything but "hondurensis"?????
They did all get exported from hunduras so they must be honduran milks?
Oh well, maybe I will just keep back a few for fun but I guess they are just the south of the border corn now.LOL.....I still love them.
pic below is of a double het snow I produced in (02) and you can see how she looks more like a stuarti than anything but what do I know.
L8r
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what? these hondos aren't pure? - shannon brown, Wed Sep 9 01:20:11 2009