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Cateater Projects *PICS!*

HighEndHerpsInc Feb 25, 2007 06:09 PM

Now that my hand is all healed and I am all caught up with all my duties I have time to share some photos and some very exciting hybrid projects we have going this season.

Here is a picture of a Green Patternless Rock Python breeding one of our giant Albino Granite Burmese females. This breeding will produce Rock/Burmese Hybrid Cateaters 100% triple het for Albino/Granite and Green Patternless.

Below this are a couple of pictures of a male Hybrid Het Albino breeding an Albino Het Granite Burmese female. This breeding will produce both Albino Cateaters het for Granite and normal colored Hybrids double Het for Albino and Granite. When the babies from this clutch breed with the 100% unrelated babies of the above clutch they will produce Granite Cateaters and Albino Granite Cateaters as well as a wide smorgasbord variety of other albinos and double and triple het babies.

We are very excited about these breedings and can't wait to raise and breed the babies. The hybrid triple het albino/granite/green patternless Cateaters will also be bred to other hybrid Cateaters double het green patternless/albino to produce solid green Cateaters and hopefully solid orange and solid yellow versions of albino patternless Cateaters. Possibly even new and unexpected solid color versions as well due to the rock green gene influence on the albino gene. We'll just have to see what happens.

It's a very exciting time.


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David Beauchemin
High End Herps.Inc
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Replies (6)

jmcghee Feb 26, 2007 03:24 AM

Very cool David... best of luck! Have you had any bateater action this year?

HighEndHerpsInc Feb 26, 2007 04:32 PM

Why yes, yes we do.

I'll get some pics up once we witness valid ovulations and see discernible, subsequent egg development in the females. I don't like to post pictures of breedings if the females don't end up being gravid.

Speaking of which, here are a couple of pictures of a hybrid het albino female that bred with a green patternless rock male having her full ovulation. Just so everyone reading this thread knows what they (ovulations) look like. This female is a three-time mom and always throws large, fertile clutches, regardless of what she breeds with.

Here is a pic of one of the many breedings:

The offspring from this female will be 75/25 rock/burm Cateater Hybrids het for green patternless. Half will be double het for green patternless/twin striped/broad banded and albino.

Multiple females (likely a minimum of 10) from this clutch will be bred with several 100% triple het albino/green rock/granite 50/50 Cateater males from the green rock/albino granite breedings/clutches. These breedings will produce many amazing combinations, not the least of which will be solid green hybrids, albino green hybrids, twin striped and broad banded albinos and greens (the rock green patternless morph gene also produces striped babies) and literally scores of different combinations of the mutiple het qualities. And like I said before, there will likely be brand new and unexpected albino colors that are impossible to predict that are the result of the rock green gene influencing the burmese albino gene.

It will be an incredible season.
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David Beauchemin
High End Herps.Inc
http://HighEndHerps.com

reticbite Feb 26, 2007 06:45 PM

When are you guy's going to make wife eater's????

HighEndHerpsInc Feb 27, 2007 02:19 PM

We have actually gotten a lot of requests for those in the last few years. We are working on it but are having a very hard time getting the anaconda and salt water croc to breed. We have considered artificial insemination as a last ditch resort.

Thanks for your input and wish us luck. Actually.... wish only me luck. My wife is not behind this particular project for whatever reason. She's just selfish I guess.
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David Beauchemin
High End Herps.Inc
http://HighEndHerps.com

radwigs Mar 18, 2007 07:56 AM

Put me on the waiting list for the anaconda/salt water croc cross. I don't have a wife but one of those could come in very handy with coworkers.

Just_Ders Mar 19, 2007 08:43 PM

so these are only 25% rock?!? I thought they were 50/50. I'm sure you're honest about this when ask but I don't remember this being posted in your ads. All hybrids should be clearly marked for their species perportions

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