Back in 04 or 05 I got in a group of ball pythons. One of the males kinda looked like a mojave. I decided to keep this one back and I called it "mojavish" just for clarification in my racks. I bred this snake to some normals in 07 to see what would be produced. Some of the babies looked a little like the male so I kept all of them back as "dinker" project. I also lost the original male in 08. Well this past/current breeding season I had a male of size so I bred him to a mojave female just to see if there was something there. I checked the clutch last saturday and about flipped. I see a head sticking out that looks almost like a crystal. On sunday it came out and I had a second one slit that was also a crystal looking snake. I contacted Tom Baker about this and I believe that the snakes that I was calling "mojavish" are actually another line of specials. So now I have another line of crystals that I will be calling TCR crystals. I didn't want to call them something else as there are already enough different names for the same snake. Tom and I both agree that if it's the same then keep it the same just diffierntiate (SP) the line rather than creating some new name for something that already exists. I also have eggs incubating from my Baker crystal to a super mojave that should be out in a week or so. So we'll see if they look the same out of the egg. Oh, I also got a set of twin mojaves out of that clutch.

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• A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - panhead, Wed Jul 14 19:32:04 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - ajfreptiles, Wed Jul 14 19:38:09 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - jaymiller242, Wed Jul 14 19:51:29 2010
• AMAZING!!! CONGRATS! n/p - cmac107, Wed Jul 14 19:58:59 2010
• GOOD! - JYohe, Wed Jul 14 20:03:16 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - jsschrei, Wed Jul 14 20:15:31 2010
• RE: BEAUTIFUL!! - Lizards of Oz, Wed Jul 14 20:37:00 2010
• Awesome!!!!!! - Ghireptiles, Wed Jul 14 20:52:53 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - kingofspades, Wed Jul 14 22:11:44 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - Marks_reptiles, Wed Jul 14 23:39:14 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Thu Jul 15 01:38:59 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - Oz, Thu Jul 15 05:43:10 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - ChrisJonesUK, Thu Jul 15 13:03:02 2010
• RE: A NEW LINE OF CRYSTAL!!!!!! - CEballpythons, Sun Jul 18 19:58:44 2010