"Thanks, hopefully this is helpful to other honduran-challenged people like me, lol! I need to bone up on milksnake terminology. I've been trying to keep up with ball pythons and cornsnakes. I give up on BPs, they are totally out of control, lol! Corns are getting that way, too.

I thought it was just a normal random thing for hondurans to produce both tricolored and tangerine offspring, but you feel it is due to all the cross breeding? Were hondurans of both types collected from the same area? I guess locality could be impossible to tell, huh?"

LOL!,..boy, I hear THAT!..HAHA!!. There are more names and combinations of those than you can shake a stick at now, as well as different confusing names for the same things. Heck, a "ghost" Ball python is simply a hypo, and in most colubrid's, it is a combination of hypo x anerythrism, or in Cal. kings, AXANTHISM...

Well, in clutches produced today there are so many different variables that it almost IS a random thing to produce either tricolors or tangerines, but in the wild it probably is substantially different depending on different areas.

And you can FORGET about the possibility of knowing any locality of any of them. As a matter of fact, there are only two sources that I am aware of that are even known to be 100% L.t.hondurensis, let alone knowing exactly what specific locale they are actually from. I know of a line from northeaestern Nicaragua, and one from central Nicaragua. Another guys line originates from some old imports from back in the 80's.

I explain alot of the actual dynamics of how the so-called "Hondurans" came to be in this hobby on my website. Here is a link to it. Scroll down just a bit below the Florida king photo and read .."About Honduran milksnakes in the Hobby:"



http://serpentinespecialties.webs.com/index.htm


If it is one thing I have found out in this hobby over the course of several decades, it is that many things regarding snakes is hardly EVER simply a "cut and dry" issue..LOL!. There can be many different facets to almost anything regarding them.

I have said many times before......."the more I find out, the less I actually seem to "knows"...

Even in 100 lifetimes you couldn't even begin to get a handle on a lot of it!


~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"


serpentinespecialties.webs.com

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