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I swore I wasn't going to keep more than 2 of these this year, but I now have 3 set aside. This is a female that just shed - the male is even nicer than this one, but I haven't got a pic of him yet. They are 1/4 Blood, 3/4 Okeetee, and you can see the gray and almost hypo look of the blood red showing through in them. The male is almost blue gray.

P&S Pituophis

Well, the gray doesn't really show up in the pic very much, I'll have to try to get a pic with better light I guess.

color still not showing though.

First yoru snakes look great. I'd like to see pictures in a year.

I too wanted to cross a BR to an Oak. But I saw some pics posted last year and the background was a bit more red, and I thought it took away some contrast in color. So far yours look much better.

Maybe because yours is 1/4 blood? It also depend on the Oak? As there are so many "looks" called okeetee. Both locale and phase.

Thanks for the pics.

Maybe cross a Bloodred and a triaspis and get christmas corns? lol But I'm against hybrids.
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Big Tom

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The one I kept last year is looking pretty much like a deep red Okeetee, maybe a little less contrast than usual, kind of like a blood with the black outlining retained, which is sort of what I was after when I decided to do it. As it turns out, the babies are more varied than I would have thought - some look pretty much like Okeetee babies and other show strong blood tendencies. This year, I'm going to keep several that look different and see how they develop.

The only 1 clutch I was in on was like that. Very hide range of looks. I guess that is a nice thing about the bloodred. Only thing is, if you have a clutch from say look A to look G, and you like G, can you breed the G's and get mostly G babies? Or will that bloodred blood line still create a variation in babies? I hope to stick with it this time to find a few of those things. It may take 10 years, but I'm not doing much else.
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

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What a cuty
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