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Vanishing Pattern L.t. sinaloae

..those are nice. Have you noticed like I have that you can get lots of aberrancies from Sinaloans/Nelsoni? I mean, most guys I know have produced the pattern abnormalies by keeping and breeding the same lines together. Sooner or later you get them it seems.
My pair now seems to be putting out much lighter and brighter reds than in the past. I had an older pair of my originals that would produce a few distinctly "brown" individuals that I thought were ugly and got rid of them. With the Sinaloans and Nelsons, I like bold, clean, crisp patterns (or lack of). The mix/match half stripe, wiggly stripe,etc. just don't do it for me, but I bet I won't sell 'em off for twenty bucks anymore!
Also have you noticed that some are much more glossy than others??
Keep up the good work!
:Mark
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Thanks Mark. The nelsoni/sinaloae are probably my favorite subspecies to work with. I also tend to produce animals on a yearly basis the show variability in color and patterning. Some exhibit everything from incomplete banding and spots to partial striping along the tails. Others may even show a degree of vanishing patterns. Some of my adult breeders will produce offspring with aberrancies annually while some abnormalities show in every other year or third year breedings. Brightness of these will also vary from animal to animal. I think that with sinaloans, breeding the best looking, cleanest and brightest adults will certainly result in fantastic and similar looking offspring. The Cosala locality animals are great examples of this.
Thanks again for the compliments.
Nathan