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Hi,

the last time I posted pics of those there were many in doubt.
Well, I don't mind and keep on posting pics of them.

Gerrit

Koenigsnattern - Lampropeltis- Milks and Kings

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Its always hard to tell from a photo, but that one animal looks to me like its black bands are more brownish than black. Are the red bands really clean? They look clean from the photo but flashes can impact that as well. Do the bands turn gray as the snakes become adults like the hypo peublans do?

How long have you been working with those?

Dave
DNS Reptiles

Hi,

I just received two females, the only ones I know about. The parents were sold in front of my nose to somebody who didn't want to start a breeding loan with me. The parents were normals.

This animals are at the age of 12 - month right now and they are cleaner and brighter then usual Sinaloans.
The second is, as you mentioned, the bands are grey/brown and not black and don't get darker til yet.

I still have to proof out, if it is recessive or not but I think the chances are pretty good.

Gerrit
Koenigsnattern - Lampropeltis- Milks and Kings

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http://www.lampropelten.de.vu

Very nice! I have not seen hypomelanistic sinaloans before. Great acquisition.

Keep us posted on them as they grow so we can see how they look.

I don't see why it wouldn't be a recessive trait based on what we've seen with hypomelanism in the other ssp of triangulum.

I'm jelous.

Dave
DNS Reptiles

Hi,

after you mentioned that Pueblans turn more gray in age I took a closer look at my animals. One is in blue, hard to tell, but if you ask me, the other animal has turned lighter brown/gray at the head and body. Shannon Brown does have seen the same in his Hypo Stuarts Milksnake.

Gerrit
Koenigsnattern - Lampropeltis- Milks and Kings

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http://www.lampropelten.de.vu

Gerrit, good pics to show the difference between your normal and your hypo!!

Scott

Very nice. Please continue to post them as they age so we can see how brilliant they become.

thanks,
Dave
DNS Reptiles

Cool, I hope it proves out for you. I have seen other hypo sinaloan/nelsons here, but its your best guess if its pure or not........

www.albinosnakes.cz

best
Vinny
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Natural Selection Reptiles

Now that I think of it, its hard to see the tipping on my sinaloans until they got close to a shed. Once they are blue, the tipping and dark pigment is easy to see. Any pics of a hypo and normal in shed?

Best,
Vinny
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Natural Selection Reptiles

That one looks like a hypo to me. The bands look brown instead of black like the one next to it. Great looking snakes.