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We have two feet of snow on the ground in central Massachusetts and most of my snakes are deep in cool-down (except my holdbacks and a few I purchased this fall). All the babies I wanted to sell have sold. Something I'm looking forward to for next year is a pair of snakes I briefly entertained selling separately until I realized they might make a good pairing. She is a snow possibly het for hypo (purchased as a baby from Jeff Alloway three years ago) and he is a hypo tri-color het for anery (I produced him three years ago). Worse case scenario from this pair would be triple-hets. Best case (if she is het for hypo) would be ghosts het for albino.

But beyond those two extremes I could end up with anerys het for albino and hypo; and hypos (tri-colors and tangerines) het for anery and albino.

For starters, I'd like a good clutch from the snow. She threw seven eggs this summer, six of which I immediately wrote off as slugs. The last one was weirdly yellow but still somewhat solid so I kept it and it ended up hatching out a nice anery het for albino, possibly het for hypo (I paired her up with an anery het hypo this season).

Here's a pic of the prospective couple exchanging hellos before going down for a long winter's nap. What's the pairing you are most looking forward to in 2008?

That is one helluva pair of snakes. That Snow is really cool looking. I always felt the Snows were not getting the attention they deserved due to the focus on babies. The adults are so much cooler looking, good luck with everything
Tom Stevens
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Rob,

Out of curiousity what size is the tub they are in? I have a few males I am considering using this year but I am unsure if they are large enough, so I figured I could compare them to your male for size.
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"The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which ones pink?"

They are in a 32 quart tub. The male hypo is about 4.5 feet and the snow is just over 4 feet. The hypo weighs just under 800 grams. The female snow is 561 grams. I would consider both of these three-year-olds middle of the road as far as size. The daddy of the hypo is 5.5 feet and weighs just under 1,300 grams so I think the tri-color hypo still has some growing left in him.

Rob