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Went to the expo in White Plains, NY, today, and I actually saw a mosaic florida king (labeled as "marbled"--it looked darn sweet and I was tempted--though I just gave up my last king today to someone who promises a good home to her.

The person selling the marbled didn't produce it and I didn't investigate its lineage.

Other nice brooks AND floridas were to be seen (I actually have a fondness for the darker floridana).

I guess I should learn to put an unecessary space inbetween a quotation mark and a parenthesis to avoid that cursed blinking smiley.

The person selling the marbled didn't produce it and I didn't investigate its lineage

Its peculiar how these things are popping up everywhere all of a sudden.
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"Yeah ya told me, and ya wrote it down too. But how the hell am I supposed to remember!"

It could be an illusion, being that it could be a small number of animals being resold over and over... that's been known to happen before
-might be interesting to see if any of these mosaic or marble brooksi phase of floridana (BPOF) are het for hypo. maybe the broken patterns often seen in hypos has made the jump to a wild type het for hypo. are there any other markers on these animals, like a red head or a patternless belly? as you know with your experience, crazy things do happen!
btw, does any goini phase -wild type, blaze or crosses- ever exhibit a patternless belly? maybe to help separate the wheat from the chaff...

did you ever get any pictures of edisto island kings? if not did you try a search on google pictures?

daveb

...out in herpetoculture right now. It wouldn't surprise me if the ones recently advertised in the classifieds were also legit. Both lines came from the canefields, which are heavily collected for Florida kings every year.

which legit line are you taling about? CrimsonKings?
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"Yeah ya told me, and ya wrote it down too. But how the hell am I supposed to remember!"

An adult gravid FL king female was caught in the canefields by Carl May, who gave the snake to Sean Bealanger. Sean hatched a clutch of six from this female, and two were the mosaic pattern. He posted pictures back in the day. All offspring in the clutch were females. One of the mosaic-type hatchlings is now an adult and produced some normal looking probably-het offspring this year. Crimsonking posted a picture of the adult mosaic-type female (picture was actually taken by me), but it doesn't belong to him.

The only pic I ever posted concerning these was an animal I called "patternless" at the time and it was taken by ME here at my house.
I have never had any that I'd call mosaic at all.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Actually, you posted a picture of the snake here:

(though the picture is not there anymore)

http://forums.kingsnake.com/viewarch.php?id=1288070,1288203&key=2007

I think it was this picture

Actually.....
yes I did but it was on another thread and I know it was your pic. Sorry.
I meant the pic I posted of MY snake.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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