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Hi all,

I am really getting into Emory's (just working with albinos now) and was wondering if anyone is woking with any morphs. I have seen the hypo and chocolate morphs and have heard of stripes...are there any more morphs available? Has anyone found an axanthic animal? Who would be working on these projects?
Thanks!

JT

Hi JT,

Welcome to emoryi. I think they are neater than corns for sure. I am currently working with amelanistic and chocholates in the hopes of producing an amelanistic chocholate in a few years. I think there are a few breeders who may be working with the reverse striped animals, but nothing really available as far as I know of yet. As far as other morphs, I know of none others available other than the hypo lines.

Good luck in your quest.

Thanks for getting back with me...after scouring the internet for info on these guys, I've found that there is not much out there. I would love to meet others who are working on some of these projects and definetly want to expand my breeding stock. The chocolate albino project sounds very interesting. Good luck with it!

I really like corns a lot, but there is something that I just love about the Emoryi!

try South Mountains Photo Page (link below). Don produced the first double recessive and I know of one other who has produced another. Don't think Don works with the emoryi anymore. He has a great photo page, go to their page and look up "emorys" and have fun. you can spend alot of time and money on his site if you aren't careful.

SMR Photo Page

Hi! Thanks for your reply! Yup, I've checked out Don's photo gallery...some awesome stuff there. I think that he hit it big with that albino chocolate morph...as far as I know there are only two in existence (?). Last time that I talked with Don he was not working with emoryi anymore. I only know of three breeders that are, which makes me wonder...where are all of the animals that they produce?

Thanks for your reply!

JT

Don still works with emoryi rats. I had purchased a female emoryi rat from him in Dec. 05, and I've inquired with him earlier this year about albino emoryi, which he was expecting to produce.
Steve

>>try South Mountains Photo Page (link below). Don produced the first double recessive and I know of one other who has produced another. Don't think Don works with the emoryi anymore. He has a great photo page, go to their page and look up "emorys" and have fun. you can spend alot of time and money on his site if you aren't careful.

I currently live in Louisiana, but am possibly moving to Georgia soon. No corns or other GA native species are allowed unless under special permit/scrutiny from what I understand. However, emoryi are OK to keep as technically E. emoryi, not E. guttata like corns. Supposedly E. slowinski may be technically allowed to. Thats why I am got into emoryi this year while rebuilding my collection, and am totally out of corns. The corns were getting "too complicated" for me keeping up with morphs, what's new, etc. I love the amel emorys, and I hear the amel chocholate phase is awesome.

Good luck with your efforts!!

Kevin,
Better double check with Georgia DNR as to whether they consider Emory's a separate species or a guttatus variant. I would get their answer, yey or nay, in writing, if I were you.
Since there is no definitive scientific body to say "here is how it is for now", state DNRs that protect to the species level must decide for themselves what they consider native.
Good luck with your move.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

A good friend of mine checked into the GA regs regarding keeping non-venomous, and they definitely abide by the species level. Emoryi are one of those borderline species, as E. emoryi as it is currently classified, is not a native GA species. Same with E. bairdi. However, as formerly classified as E. g. emoryi or E. o. bairdi, would be considered a "native" species since E. guttata and E. obsoleta occur in the state. I also heard rumor that if an agent could identify the animal as non-native, than odds are you are ok (ie, cal kings, honduran milks, etc.). However, technically ALL L. getula, E. guttata, E. obsoleta and milks (L. triangulum) are unable to be kept without permit, regardless of the subspecies. Another friend of mine who actually lived in GA kept emoryi specifically because they were OK to keep. Still, you are correct in being wary.