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i caught this going on tonight on the final round through ( does anyone else find themselves going through their snake room excessively during breeding season?)
its a male hypo and female snow of the brooksi phase of floridana (BPOF). the offspring should be very reddish since he was absolutely red as a hatchling and she is from the extreme orange lavender albino lineage. genetically the offspring will be het for hypo, axanthic and X-orange lavender albino. don't know what that will look like but will find out sometime in the next 5-10 years, good lord willing.
daveb

Boyle's Egg Company

Dave,

Just wondering why you bred a hypo to a FEMALE snow? There are a lot of triple hets already out there. From what I can recall breeders were trying to move trip[le hets at ridiculously low prices.

Guess people want immediate gratification and don't have patience for the hets. At least that what I have seen with the brooksi.

Hey Rainer,
How is it going? You having a good year?
I don't know why I am guilty of this pairing. I think it is something that I wanted to try, I want to see the color of these triple hets since he was an unearthly red orange as a hatchling and she was from the extreme orange lineage. I am pretty dense and not too market savvy, what should I have bred to that female snow hahaha?
Triple hets are a good initial start towards new projects but the probabilities of producing a triple homozygous morph are a bit cumbersome- 1 out of 64. Show me anyone other than the ground floor breeder that has the patience for that! If you can get one of the recessive traits to be homozygous and the other two traits heterozygous then you have the same probability of producing the triple homozygous morph as producing a ghost or a snow, 1 out of 16.
Anyhow, cutting back on the kings. Going to move a bunch of adults and hold back a bunch of offspring from this year for future considerations. It is too much fun, thought I should share the wealth.
Good to hear from you. See you in Daytona?
daveb

see ya !

can't they see we're trying to take a picture?

oh, another thing about triple hets that almost ALL salesbreeders fail to mention to client/customers is the eighth morph which appears with breeding (they all emphasize the 7 recessive traits). Approximately HALF /- of the offspring produced will have a normal phenotype and will be possibly het for three traits- but no way to prove as a carrier for any trait. That far down the road, how do you market those hahaha?!?!? Not much fun finding that out by living the experience (minus your hard earned $$$) versus minutes of careful apriori research.
daveb

Ya know it is funny how Brooksi triple hets dropped in price quite fast yet triple het Hondurans were in demand and if I am not mistaken pop up 2 new variants of the Snow,,,,which reminds me Snows still crashed. Sometimes things just don't seem to make a lot of sense in the snake world? Good luck with everything Dave did you get my email? Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

no I did not get your email...did you mention what the 007 project is ???
i am going to keep back some of this years hatchlings so I am not "getting out" all the way (you can never get out of this hobby once you are in) just doing some card shuffling.
daveb