Yeah,...I remember that nice king you have there.

It does indeed look VERY similar, and could even actually BE an "Osceola-Suwanee", or an excellent looking blotched goini, or other possible intergrade of some kind, or whatever the case might be.

The next thing to consider though is, if it was a naturally occuring intergrade from the wild, or was it a man-made produced intergrade?. See, to be called an "Osceola-Suwanee", it could not be a product of two ssp. a person bred together in captivity, it would have to be a product of two subspecies that bred(intergraded)naturally in the wild.

Not long ago, I saw a king on a guys site that looked absolutely identical to what a genuine O-S specimen would look like phenotypically, but when I asked about it, I found out it was actually a man-made intergrade, and not what I thought it might be.

Now if you knew the exact history of that snake, and it's parental lineage, etc.. then you would really be onto something there. But I am betting if Ben knew all that, he probably would have charged you a heck of alot more too than you probably paid for it.

Yours DEFINITELY has the expressed phenotype one would have, no doubt about it, but without knowing,....well. you know the rest..LOL!

Excellent bruiser there Amy!, I certainy remember that from a good while back....it's a real beauty whatever the case is!


best regards, ~Doug
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