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Just trying to find who else is trying a hand this alterna locality..

Lance

Lance,
You can try Norm N. or Doug Beckwith. Don't think they have pairs but might have some wc individuals. BA

It doesn't help you at this point, but I had a male that has since died. He was hit right in front of me. He had lacerations down his neck and one eye was filled with blood. He took a lizard the next day and became a great captive for the next year. Somehow he managed to get himself stuck in a funky way and in a funky part of the lid of his cage while I was away. I came back to find him dead.

Do you currently have any animals from that locality? I've always thought that was a pretty cool canyon and never understood why more didn't come from that locality. I guess it has a lot to do with the lack of cuts so the herpers just fly through.

Good luck,

Brad Alexander (the other BA)

I have a lone male, great animal... buckskin look with lots of orange infused in the background, making him a dark brown alterna morph.

This is the second lone male I have had from here, Norm and I collected one in the mid 90's that I ended up loaning out, after a while he found his way into another collection and has not come back.

I also remember back in those old days that Mike Forstner had a pair while he was in Bryan/College Station. This locality has been in collections for a long time, I find it hard to believe that there is not more of a breeding stock out there. I mean look at how many gap animals are being produced vs collected, these things should at least exist..?

Lance

Hey Lance.I finally was able to pair up an animal but it will be another year before its ready.It is a hard place to obtain animals.I found one DOR this year but there are at least three other people with pairs.Hopefully we will see some F1's next year.These animals as they get older get heavy orange bleed through like no others Ive seen.No really decent cuts so people tend to zip through there on their way to other places.

As old as our male likely is I would like to just get a pair, I am afraid that by the time I get a female and bring her up to size he will (according to Murphy's Law) die of old age just days before I put them together. I know that if I pick up a pair he will be around a lot longer

Lance