I talked directly to Steve Strasser on the phone several months ago since I knew he was directly involved with their origin. I posted this a while back for Jorge when he asked about it several months ago.





Peanut butter brooksi history (as told to me by Steve Strasser) on 6/18/11



I talked directly to my long-time friend Steve Strasser today, and he told me the precise history on the peanut butters. In short, Steve's friend, Tom Mills of California told Steve that while he was down that way visiting Steve in Florida, he wanted to go to Glades Herp to check things out. So they went there and picked out a couple of brooksi they had. Tom took them home and later inadvertently produced the very FIRST peanut butters that descended from these normal wild-caught snakes that originated from Miami/Dade county that Glades had. Tom accidentally produced two odd looking snakes (peanut butters), one of which died, then the following year produced another two, and one of THOSE also died as well. So it just so happened that this left one sexual pair.



After these odd looking snakes were produced by Tom, Steve tried to keep this "hush-hush" and got back with Bill Love(then of Glades Herp), and tried to locate more original animals with these same code numbers that the one's Tom originally bought from them, but this didn't pan out, so Steve let the "cat out of the bag" so to speak and told Bill About these odd snakes that Tom produced. Bill thought that from the code numbers Steve told him, these were likely the hypos he just recently produced, but they were not because the "xx" prefix meant those also were wild-caught animals of unknown ages. Soon afterwards, Tom later gave all of this group back to his friend Steve Strasser, and Steve produced some more along with hets in the following years, which is where Rainer got his from.
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