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Greenish Rat Snake Morph Hatchlings

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Posted by: Godfrey at Wed Jun 23 18:28:40 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Godfrey ]  
   

Four years of work and waiting has finally paid off. The male greenish rat snake I caught here in Horry County, South Carolina has proven simple recessive. I found him on my job in June 2006. He was not large enough to breed then, and despite spending that entire summer and fall searching I did not find a locality female. The following year I found two adult females within 200 yards of where I found the male. I still had to wait another year so I could brumate these females. I caught them in mid-June. In 2008 I had bred the two females to the male visual and got two clutches of hets. I pushed them hard for growth and got 2.4 to breeding size by late last fall. The first pips emerged after 61 days of incubation. I got four visuals and seven hets from the first clutch. The second clutch of 14 has produced three visuals so far, but all of them have not cut their eggs yet. A third clutch is right on their heels with two eggs cut now. Despite having the two het males I chose to breed the gals to the visual morph to get more visuals. I still have not decided what to call them. They are not amels as all have black pupils and obviously some melanin in their patterns. I'm leaning toward some sort of hypo? Whatever they are they sure look cool, and I'm proud to have been lucky enough to complete this project. Below are photos of the hatchling morphs along with their het siblings as well as a photo of the adult W/C male with a het female.





   

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