Paul, In 1992 I went to Tim Turmezie's house in Tehachapi and he was already working with the scissors animals trying to widen there stripe.I think he was on f2 or f3 by then.His stock had been collected in the early to mid 80's by Limburg and Keesler.



He said he could get about one scale wider by each generation by just selectivley breeding for that.

I lost touch with him for many years then back in (07) I went back to his place and bought some of his breeders.By then he had f5 and f6 animals that where just insane.

The two babies I posted where produced from siblings to this pair.









one of the cool things is you can and will still throw a banded here and there even when breeding full striped animals.This one below was produced by the awesome pair above.Sure wish I would have kept this one back.







now, here is a pair I have that are just f1 animals.This is what they would look like if you could find one today out there.What a long way Tim came from some 20 years ago huh?











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