I've been posting random updates from my patternless annectans project over the course of the last four years, but for those who are new and/or haven't been following along, I'll recount the history of the project a bit...

In June of 2006, I was fortunate enough to encounter what I have called a patternless San Diego Gopher Snake, Pituophis catenifer annectans, in the wild. Although there is some striping to it, it is very different from other striped annectans, and I wanted to distinguish my line from other stripers... (If anyone has a better suggestion for what to call this morph, I'm all ears.)




Needless to say, I collected the subadult male, named him "Sancho", and bred him to several females. In the spring of 2007, he was bred to wild-caught females from the same area, as well as some albino Applegate females. He proved to be virile- siring several healthy clutches of babies- all of which were normal in appearance.

In 2008, he sired a few more clutches and produced one aberrant baby... I'm not sure what to think of this little girl, but I'm raising her up to breed to the patternless...



In the spring of 2010, the F1 babies born in the fall of 2007 were ready to breed. I bred single het females back to the patternless, and double het patternless albino siblings to each other. My hope was the trait would prove to be a simple recessive trait...

Last week, my first clutch from a single het female hatched. Out of the two egg clutch, I got a little male het, and this little female patternless!!



I've got a few more small clutches due to hatch in a the next couple weeks. With any luck, I'll produce some patternless albinos!

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• The Proof is in the Pudding - Yani45, Sun Aug 1 10:50:59 2010
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