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The yellow-phase looks white in these pics. My digital camera doesn't seem to show yellow or green very well. I've taken pics. of my favorite corns--ambers---which are stunning greens and yellows, but they don't show in pics. By the way I'm Jeff Cerula, and I'm new to posting although I've been breeding these thayeri for 5 years--other species for about 10. Hope you enjoy the pics.!!

Great looking snakes! I haven't seen albino thayeri before, and was wondering if these are "pure" thayeri (ie: descended from wild-caught albino thayeri or albinos that showed up in captivity with thayeri-x-thayeri breedings) or if they are descendants of hybrids created to introduce the albinism gene into thayeri? No value judgement either way, just interested from an academic point of view.

Thanks---they are unreal in person--pics. just don't do it. They are hybrids; crossed with Ruthvens in '94--hets in'96--albinos in '98. Want some? I'll try posting more pics.
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J.C.

I saw you had these advertised on the classifieds and I don't know if your email is down or not. I emailed you several times inquiring about those rutheniXtheryi hybrids. I asked price and what sexes you had avaliable. I know you must have gotten some of my emails because I did get one email back from you saying "How many do you want?"

I will post a few questions I had so that we can share the info on these beautiful hybrids you have:

1) Did you do this original breeding of these animals or are these Michael Wauhop animals or a different line? The reasom I ask is if you brokered these is because its important to know if the information is second hand or experience.

2)How successful are the ruthini X thayri cross in fertility and clutch sizes?

3) and do you know if its possible to have success breeding them to other ruthenix projects? I have heard that the ruthini is problematic crossing into other ruthini hybrids? Have you had experience with this?

Can you please email me with prices and avaliablity?

Thanks

np

I don't know about the ruthveni X thayeri hybrids but I have heard of fertility problems in albino ruthveni. I had a pair of albino ruthveni, the first year I got one fertile egg and the second year I got no fertile eggs. The third year I got a ruthveni that was het for stripped/abberrant and not het for albino. I bred this male and the albino male to the albino female. I got 4 out of five eggs fertile and all the babies looked normal. During all 3 of these years I got good fertility with my other montane colubrids so I am sure the albino ruthveni male had poor fertility.