I don't have any wild caught snakes from that area, but I am pretty sure that others have already shown most of these traits to be independent mutations by isolating them and line breeding just for aberrant or the darker form, ect.

I hatched both hypermel/banded and hypermel/aberrant stripped from a normal banded het hypermelanistic male to a banded hypermelanistic female I got them both from Kerby, it was a first clutch and small a few eggs went bad and I only hatched two. The aberrant was a surprise.

The thing is this is a slow process. I will need to backcross both parents and hatch several clutches to see what else is hiding in there. Then anytime you want to bring in a new individual there you have the same thing. It will be several years of experiments, but we are lucky as Kerby has done a lot of work for us, and he is here to tell about it.

I think his experience is very valuable in this, cause he has more than me, I know a lot of theory, and I want to test it out!

I am interested in getting some wildcaughts from that area.
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