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Here’s the male hypo scarlet I acquired from Craig Trumbower a few years back. As the animal has matured the obvious grey has darkened to a less obvious dark brown but the other colors have been significantly lightened by the overall decrease in melanin. This pic pretty accurately captures his coloration.

Looks awesome!
Todd Hughes

Absolutly gorgeous! I remember that snake on Trumbowers table. Later on when I came back it to look at it again it was gone. Amazingly you picked it up.

Do you remember what the price he had on that snake? Do you know if any other hypo scarlets are in existence? When do you plan on breeding it?

Yes i remember the price. It still pains me a bit! LOL. Don't know if there are any others besides this one and the hets from 05. This is also the snake that got loose in 05 and my wife found while working in the garden in 06!

This is also the snake that got loose in 05 and my wife found while working in the garden in 06!

Thats quite a history. Wish you luck on producing more hypos!

I would really want a pair of your hets but cannot keep them where I live. Georgia law says that you cannot keep any snake native to Georgia..

The history is better than that! Jeff Hardwick gets credit for getting together a group of adult tested "crypto free" females for this breeding project. Unfortunately, the first year out of the shoot we got them a little late to breed. Later that year I left a cage ajar and a large eastern king snake escaped, crawled behind the scarlet kings cage and pushed it open allowing him to escape as well. A quick and desperate search the next morning only turned up a rather contented eastern which I assumed had fed on a nice $600 appetizer! The female scarlets were then shipped back to Jeff.

The next spring my wife is working in the garden when she calls me with that unmistakable voice that I've done something wrong. Upon seeing the snake my first reaction was to feel sickened because I thought it was one of my hypo coasts and I was wondering how it happened this time. On closer look I realized it was the scarlet! I posted the find on the forum and Jeff came right back that he had JUST sold the females off!

The offspring I have now are from a breeding with a female Albemarle peninsula “coastal” that keys as a scarlet but is as big as any coastal. 2.2 were hatched out. One pair went to Jeff H. and I kept the other. Jeff lost his male and so sent me his female because as it would happens was great as I lost my mine! The pair that remains is doing well and should be ready to go next year.

I've tried to move these many times as I really don't need another SMALL tricolor project but so far there have been no takers. its getting close enough to bearing fruit now that I believe I'll just hold onto them.

Tony,.....what a "MIND-BLOWING" story!!, I'm glad you posted that!!LOL......best of luck with them!......................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

that a pretty cool story Tony. Thanks for sharing.