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shannon brown
at Wed Mar 14 18:02:03 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by shannon brown ]
ok,it starts like this.Take note young grasshoppers.LOL.....
That snake was produced by Regis Offerman out of Colorado in (1999).I talked with Regis about it and he said it hatched out as a pretty normal looking amel but had some weird tipping.He raised it up to 3 years old and then decided to get out of colubrids all together.He is also the first person to ever produce the extreme red albino hognose just fyi.
Anyway, he sold that male snake along with about four or five others to a buddy of mine (Luis Torres) in Salt Lake city utah.Luis took and bred him to a few females including a couple sibling females and even to a nice hypo female.
I was lucky enough to purchase a pair of the double het hybinos from him that he had produced from that killer male.I saw that snake in person a couple times and I will tell you that Picture is not touched up at all!If anything it actually takes away to the way it really looked.I have seen thousands of amels over the years and that is still the best looking one I have ever seen.
Anyway,A couple years went by and Luis sold that snake along with the rest and some offspring etc.. to Ric Blair of Salt Lake.
Ric had him a couple years but lost him for no apperant reason in (07 or 08).
In late (2010) and early 2011 when ric got out of snakes he sold off the 30 or 40 animals he had from that line and it was his belief that it took a couple years for the trait to show up so you had to hold back and watch them change blah blah....Well,b.s. cause I also got some hatchlings from Ric back in about (05) and have produced about 25-30 out of my pair and none have ever turned out anything even close to dad/uncle granddad etc.....
My buddy Scott in Kansas bought out what Ric had left in the group and he has also told me has produced nothing special at all.
Just a one-off if you ask me.
Anyway, there it is in a nutshell!
L8r Shannon
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the full story if you want it? - shannon brown, Wed Mar 14 18:02:03 2012
