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Of course what girl doesn't like Valentine's Day?!
Dave, Tom, and Guy know I love chocolate--and I got some great cards! Then I went to check on the snakes and found this great surprise! A litter from het t+ x het t+, with 19 babies, 7 t+ and 12 66% het t+. Of the normals, quite a few are "pink panthers" (formerly known for one day as "pandoras" which was too similar to "paragon" so I'm officially, really officially naming them "pink panthers".

We think the pink panther appearance is inherited as a simple recessive trait, and is a separate trait totally independent of the caramel-albino gene.

The top pic shows a normal baby with two pink panthers, the bottom pic is the litter, with the normals, pink panthers, and t+. Close-up pics of the t+ when they shed next week-they are really beautiful, but all of the normals 66% have great patterns and colors also.

Congratulations !!!! WOW !
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congrats!!! That would be the best valentines day!! My valentines consists of making sure I bring home flowers, candy , and a mushy card or i'm in trouble lol
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I forgot to say congrats!!!!!!!!!
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those are awsome, cant wait to see post shed pics!

Take care

Mike & Luz

The T animals are very impressive. It will be ineteresting to see how the pink panther animals develop and color up other morphs. Is it possible that they are also T but are showing less of the defect in melanin production than the more obvious T animals.
Congratulations again.
Bill Kirby

are a separate thing from the t+ and we actually have some t+ that we think are Pink Panther t+, meaning both, like a double homozygous recessive. I have not bred two of the Pink Panthers together however-so that would be interesting. It would be good to have two of them that you knew for sure were not het t+ and then see what happens when you breed them together--that might yield some interesting results. The pair that produced these babies was a pink panther male 100% het t+ x a female normal 100% het t+.

I could never get any work done with boas like that around...lol...I could just look at them all day! How do you do it? Andy
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Congratulations to you and Happy Valentines Day! Those are really spectacular!

Rich and John
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pile of of my own T's.
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Ron Michelotti

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Congrats Tracy !!! Looks like a beautiful litter! I have to get one of those someday....I just love the T positives.

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I love the name for those pink babies!!!

THE PINK PANTHERS !!! Yeah has a great sound to it...Great name.

Have a great day! Andy Federico

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How many Pink Panthers do you get of the normal looking het babies when breeding a homozygous animalXhet?These reason I ask is that this may be a visual indicator indicator of who is het and who is not.Have you proven any non-Pink Panthers that are normal in appearance from this line to actually be het?Just some random thoughts that came to mind when reading your post.Great litter.

As soon as they shed I'll get the count of normal and pink panther 66% hets. The mom of these is a 100% het and is the most normal looking boa ever--I'll post a pic of her as soon as I can.
I really don't think that all the pink panthers are 100% hets (would have been convenient though!). The main thing is that in a litter where there are 50% or 66% hets, with pink panthers among the normals, I wouldn't see a normal and think "that couldn't be a het" because that would be a mistake!

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STUNNING!!!

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I was away in DC for a conferance this weekend, lol.

I like the Pink Panther name better as well! More fun to throw in to the t Albinos