...and so do I. This is a '05 female dark alterna that is developing much like her dark father. Her ground color is darkening up nicely while holding her white borders, and her saddles are developing into the clean dark red-orange of her father. Great saddle pattern to boot. She is exactly what I had hoped to produce from her parents. The plan was to breed females like this back to their father with the goal of producing these nice dark phase examples somewhat consistently. One of her sib sisters is even darker with clean and much brighter orange saddles, and a third female sib just as nice as the one you see here with slightly lighter gray. What a nice 1.3 group they would have made for the project!
I say would have, because I sold both parents last fall. I just wanted to share my first abandoned project that I really wish I hadn't. I should have kept that adult male. I think in another 3 years I would have had one nice dark phase alterna project on my hands. Some lucky fellow is going to step right in on this thing when he ends up with a nice group of these babies.
And I have thayeri and mex mex to thank for my loss! 
Mike
Here is the female that is most like her father, she's just beginning her shed phase, opaque belly and dulling a bit. Photo from this morning right after breakfast.....
