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Here are some pictures of some of our ball morphs. Thanks for looking.

Nacho, our bumblebee, is coming along nicely. He finally decided to eat with gusto, so here's to next season!

A couple mojos
Nice normal mojave female

Strange little abberant mojave female

And finally, our ghost male that is also 66% poss het albino

Fun stuff.

Justin

AAR

All the pictures are beautiful - that first one of Nacho is absolutely stunning!!! I like that odd mojave - did you produce her?
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Tosha

Thanks. I am happy with the way our bee is coming along. We did hatch out the aberant female mojave. She has always been more black and white than the other mojaves from the clutch. Not sure what is going on, but she is cool looking.
Justin
AAR

Awesome pics. Love the bee and the mojaves. The hypo is nice too. What line is that?

Jeff

Thanks. I am not quite sure on the hypo. He was a surprise from a pair of het albinos that turned out to be double hets. They came originally from Mark Leshock.
Justin

That's to cool. Must have been a great day. Did that clutch produce any visual Albinos?
If so "BETTER DAY!"

Jeff

Nope, just the hypo and a normal poss double het sibling. We are pairing the double het parents again this year in hopes of a visual albino or a hypo albino if we are lucky. The only hard part will be differentiating the two. The adult female is not the best eater, so it may be a small clutch.
Justin

Best of luck!

Jeff

I've never seen a definite double recessive mutation of this type and was wondering, how would you tell it from a normal albino? Hypos just have a slight reduction in melanin while albinos have a complete reduction...so it seems the hypo aspect wouldn't effect the albinism? I hope I'm wrong though. If anyone has any pics, I'd love to see.
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Chance Duncan
www.rivervalleyexotics.com

Yeah, that will be a bit tricky. I know NERD hatched one out. I haven't seen any pictures though. I guess I will cross that bridge when I come to it. I wasn't really planning on a hypo albino project, but it kind of worked out that way, so I can't complain. It would be nice to have a snake with both genes to breed to hets and poss hets, though.
Justin

Oh it definitely would be a very nice snake indeed to have around the collection. Anything that can pass on more than one recessive trait is worth its weight in gold, blood, whatever If I were you, I'd probably end up holding onto every albino that hatched just in case.
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Chance Duncan
www.rivervalleyexotics.com

All great looking animals!!! Nacho rocks! I also really love the abberant mojave!!!