I also bred my male to this female my friend found in the same field.













For some reason they were only hooked up an hour. I wasn't completely sure copulation took place, so I reintroduced them again the next day. This time they remained locked for several hours.





She was gravid 32 days and laid 5 good eggs.





All 5 hatched, but since they were all pretty much identical to the other LB kings, I didn't take any clutch pictures. However, I did photograph the darkest male out of the clutch.





Out of the 14 babies I got, none of them had the darker than normal belly pattern seen in my adult male. That's how it goes with LB Grease kings and other LB hypermelanistic kings found outside LB. I wouldn't say its rare, but its not common. Also, there are many LB hypermelanistic kings darker than mine inside the light rings. I've produced some that are a lot darker than the parents. This LB hypermelanistic morph is variable with the amount of hypermelanism it displays and it seems most of the time its the males that can be really dark.
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