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ginter
at Sat Nov 20 17:12:24 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ginter ]
Nice looking snakes! You have got to love that Pituophis Killer Instinct!!!!!!
Based on the high color in the back ground of at least one of those two I would strongly suggest you have texas red x stillwater crosses. Look down at the "handfull of stillwaters" post to get an idea of classic wheat yellow stillwaters. Stillwaters can get color in the saddles but generally have relatively drab yellow ground color. I use the term drab a bit loosely as stillwaters are fine looking snakes!
I guess it is a pandora's box thing as I have personally worked on getting really consistently colorful hypos.....from my Kingsville TX "red" line crossed with my founder group of Stillwater hypos. Suffice it to say, "in general if your Stillwater hypo has nice orange, peach, or reddish color it probably isn't a Stillwater..... in the truest sense............
The girl pictured below is now an f2 adult who throws really nice looking "flame" bulls. I attempted to coin the name but I guess I'm not much of a marketing genius so it has yet to take. Because the "red" gene is multi-variant such a cross produces colorful and not so colorful offspring so My guess is that many of the not so colorful babies being produced are simply sold as "Stillwaters".
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RE: Hypo Stillwaters Eating (a little blood) - ginter, Sat Nov 20 17:12:24 2010