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Just messing around with my Nikon D50 using a sigma 105 mm macro. This is a shot of a baby VP sinaloan.

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AIM sn: z10silver

Nice Shot! I really like the close up pix.. Does anyone have any others???

~ Mike Russo

This is one of my Gray banded Kings..

Here's one of my nelsons but the quality is now where near the first picture. Nice shot z10silver!

Dave

DNS Reptiles

Here's one I posted a while back! Doug

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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

My 4 year old son just told me he likes your Alb. tang. because it "looks like Candy"

~ Mike

Mike,.....It's funny that he said that!,...because the title of the post it was in months before was titled "Honduran Candy"!!lol.....that's exactly what it was supposed to look like!lol...another guy also posted that it reminded him of the "candy corn" you get during Halloween!......tell your son I think he's very "sharp" for picking up on that! Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

Shannon

I also noticed that the irises of your "extreme" tri-color also are light grey!....whereas in most others it is all "ruby-red" and not noticeable!..................................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

I noticed on the beautiful extreme tricolor that Doug commented on, that the snake shows some tipping. Being extreme the tipping is also grey like the banding.

This has me wondering if being hypo melanistic has no bearing on scale tipping. I realize that some tipping may always occur and it’s very possible that if the snake wasn’t hypo it may well have matured into a very dark snake. I just haven’t been exposed to many extreme hypos.

Is a lack of scale tipping a trait that improves with line breeding, and independent of hypomelanisim?

Great question,
Well,yes the extreme gene is just the best of the best hypos.I have no tipping in a couple of my extremes.
The extreme tri-color came from a triple het x hypo so it wasn't even out of a known extreme line.I am not even sure if its compatible (should know in a couple months)with Falcons line.
Yes,he shows allot of tipping now that he is older but its red or grey depending on were it is.I would say that he wouldn't be that attractive if he was a normal.

Shannon

indeed it was NOT compatible with the known "extreme" gene?, and you had in effect an "extreme type B" gene unique in itself!!.. that could possibly start a whole new thing!....like I said in earlier post,..it's irises are noticeably different than most "extremes", along with the "light gray" tipping!. I wonder exactly what's up with that one!??.....I'm sure you'd like to know as well!LOL......only time will tell in future breedings!......I'm interested as to what things are produced with it's genetics!.......................................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

little better shot.
Shannon

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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

Here are mine....

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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

Here are mine....

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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

Canon Powershot, MACRO setting

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Mike Heinrich
mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.boakingdom.com

Mike,....great pics!.....I've got the same camera!!LOL...is yours also the A-540?......man,...these things are capable of doing more than most people will ever need!....they have a million features that's for sure......I only wished they explained stuff with more detail!, the instructions are VERY vague on most of the features,....I had to find out most of the stuff by pressing buttons and seeing what happened!LOL...when you find the subject you want to know more about, as soon as you start reading a few words, it refers you to another page, or the other instruction booklet!LOL.....But after much "trial & error" I was finally getting pretty comfortable with most of it!....I bet you had a similar experience.......when I first pulled it out of the box, and try to use it, it was like trying to operate the "Space Shuttle"!......no thanks to the instructions, I got it down pretty good now!LOL...let me know what you think. Doug

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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

>>Mike,....great pics!.....I've got the same camera!!LOL...is yours also the A-540?......

Yes, mine is the A-540. These things are incredible...AND...are reasonably priced. You can't go wrong with one of these.

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Mike Heinrich
mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.boakingdom.com

Myu little Inca female!

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Nicholas Bertrand