Please let me set the record straight...

A number of years ago I bred LA Pines that were sibling offspring from Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo animals. The origin stemmed from Memphis Zoo stock(Reichling). Pure ruthveni. My animals were pure, but inbred. So I "outcrossed" a couple of babies with offspring I received from Theron Magers (central Louisiana). The ruthveni I received from him were hatched from a wild caught animal. Thus still pure ruthveni. One of the babies I kept from this pairing I raised up and did, by the way, look very much like the picture here on this thread...pretty snake.

I am not sure where my name and hybrid ruthveni came into the picture. The only hybrid Pits that I have had were a couple of Northern Pines X Black Pines that looked nothing close to ruthveni and resembled real ugly blacks.

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• Steve Jensen/Audubon Zoo outcrosses? - monklet, Sat Dec 26 11:11:12 2009
• Correction - monklet, Mon Dec 28 10:58:39 2009
• RE: Correction - DanielsDen, Mon Dec 28 17:13:54 2009
• RE: Correction - jcherry, Wed Dec 30 16:09:35 2009
• RE: Correction - SJensen, Thu Dec 31 05:29:50 2009
• Thanks Steve - DanielsDen, Thu Dec 31 08:21:32 2009
• RE: Correction - monklet, Thu Dec 31 09:42:11 2009
• RE: Correction - RichH, Thu Dec 31 18:09:32 2009
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• RE: Correction - RichH, Thu Dec 31 19:59:53 2009
• RE: Correction - monklet, Thu Dec 31 20:10:11 2009
• RE: Correction - KevinM, Thu Dec 31 21:55:06 2009
• La (as in Louisiana) Pura Vida - monklet, Mon Dec 28 11:05:22 2009