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I got this pair from Aaron Mattson in '06.
The father is a 25+ year old that was from Lloyd Lemke
and the mother is from Ric Blair stock. She was supposedly collected before all the albinos started popping up.
I'm personally not interested in the albinos, so that was a bonus for me. The last I'd heard, the male was with Shannon Brown.
I think it's pretty cool that an animal that old is still
producing offspring.
He has posted pics of him before, maybe we can persuade him to post them again. The male is the top photo, the female bottom.
Enjoy!
-Phil

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I bought him and his kids and whatknot about 8 or 9 years ago.I had them a couple years and then sold off the whole group except this old man.I gave him to Aaron and he got the female from Ric. I got him back a last year and I have the female also.Anyway, bad eggs last year so I hope the old man isn't out of gas.He was collected as a adult in (85).

Shannon

Thanks Shannon! The poor old guy just needs some Viagra! LOL!!!
I can only imagine how many of his offspring are out there, both in the wild and in captivity.
-Phil
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yes, I know for a fact that he is a great great grandpa. All the weird striped and abberants that are out there (al justins stuff) came from him at one point.

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Yeah Aaron told me that as well, but he said that he hadn't produced any abberants in a while? Very inaresting!
-Phil
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Hi Patton,
I have only produced one decent abberrant, but in the past I don't think I knew what to look for. I think it is an incomplete dominante and in the first generation it can be very subtle to decently abberrant. Second generation should produce abberrants similar to the abberrant Shannon just posted.
Now that yours have some size on them I think your male is het for abberrant. The marker, I think, is those two bands with the light patches in them.
Here is a pic of the decently abberrant one I spoke of and he is a sibling to your pair.

Nice looking Ruthven's there. My male has a few spots, where the red fades out to greyish white, that don't show in the photo.
He has that Ruthven's greenish hue to him too. I'm very happy with both of them. Thanks a lot Aaron.
-Phil
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