I agree, Norm....

There are certainly TONS of blaze crosses out there, and there are coutless flame hypo brooks x blaze crosses, and any combination of said ssp. percentage in between. But the accentuated red pigment on the original blaze goini in my opinion is simply accentuated red pigment (erythrin) from line-breeding. As many know, both floridana and goini can commonly express quite a bit of red pigment when young. The blaze goini are just a little richer colored and can retain it a bit longer in some, but not many.They're sometimes more patternless just as normal goini/meansi can display. Those all generally tends to fade big-time into a tannish-brown snake as they mature just as you mentioned that's not much different at all than many normal goini. Seems that the VERY red-headed hatchlings have a tendency to remain the reddest as they mature more.

Also I'm sure you and most everyone else with any knowledge of how this hobby works can eaily assume there's not much doubt that Cal. kings have been hybridized into them too, just like almost any other type of popular colubrid hobby snake, but there is no way they got the red hypererythristic trait from any Cal. king. I see all sorts of red goini that look like any other goini without the exaggerated red pigment.

Yeah, it definitely ain't like the good ol' days back when Dealy's Aquarium pet store was around when you, Paul Stone and I were kids, huh??..LMAO!!...


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