ok, I can see where you're at with that. I held that snake and studied it a long time, lol, a lot longer than ALL the other kings John has, and I saw them all, lol! I had some interesting questions about the snake, and while I can see where you are coming from because the history isn't there, and that line breeding, backbreeding, outcrossing then bringing it back can muddy the water. That snake is 1. pure getula 2. holbrooki and 3. the yallahest kangsnake I've ever personally seen. Bar none.

The reason I have given consent for John to use the Calhoun line on this animal is that I believe it to be as much holbrooki as are the Calhouns. While I can only give my opinion, I can state as fact that the Calhouns are pure. I caught them all, no "crosses" outbreeding, etc. has happened with them. I am a guy who wants to breed pure locality forms, and be known for that. On the other hand, I am just as curious to see what those possible hets are going to look like, because I theenk I have a male that was w.c. by me that has something going on in his genes. While they are to be John's animals, I don't want any credit for the offspring, they are his to experiment with. I will breed Houdini and the other w.c. male to the females I have to keep my line of holbrooki locality pure, while working out the funky little Calhoun's weirdness. Maybe just a super hypermelanistic thing going on here, maybe (I hope) an opposite of the whitewall factor. If so, I will truly have done something by myself, with no outside interference, with locality animals that I can only personally guarantee by my word, although I have field pics, you know what I mean. While I absolutely LOVE seeing all the morphs worked with today, you can count on your hand(s) where they originated from. Haha, I hope all this leads to something in a few years, I hate eating crow!









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