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Aanata1, i found a few pictures of your anery on the kingsnake forums, and it looks like it has black eyes, whereas mine a bit different. How about yours Dave? I tried to get the best picture of the eyes, but always moving around!!!

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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
0.1 Anery BRB
2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
1.1 het hypo BRB

Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
1.0 Anery BRB
0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

oh by the way the other snake is one of its poss het anery brothers. I am picking up the rest of my snakes next week, on a massive trip driving around europe picking snakes up!!!! Do hope to have a complete set of individual pics up for them soon.

cheers
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
0.1 Anery BRB
2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
1.1 het hypo BRB

Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
1.0 Anery BRB
0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

Beautiful! Neat comparison between the two.

I'm jealous! I want to go on a massive trip around Europe to pick up snakes. And hit pubs. Not necessarily in that order.

Have fun and take lots of pix!

yeah it is the easiest way to pick the snakes up, waiting for the german shows etc to be on, with both breeders there, its just gonna take forever.

however i have 11 countries, 4000km and 4 days (as have to be back at work). It is going to be quite an interesting trip i think. Dont worry there will be some pics, and im sure a youtube video. "Snakes in a Volvo" perhaps?? hehe
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
0.1 Anery BRB
2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
1.1 het hypo BRB

Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
1.0 Anery BRB
0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

Excellent road trip! Back when I showed dogs a lot I'd do massive road trips like that. Several times there were shows 4000km away, the trick was to take someone else so we never had to turn the van off and drive it straight through. Madness! I loved it, wish I had time. Looking forward to the pix and video!

ah dont worry, i have roped in 2 mates to come with me. They think its quite a mission we are going on and should be a laugh.

anyone got any good tips for transporting the snakes. I will be taking a few polysturane coolers etc to have the snakes in. They will be in the boot, and my car is pretty easy to monitor the temp very well. But will also have a thermomater with me, linked out of the boot, so can make sure there temp right there. Will have the BRBs in moss, and plan on stopping every 6hrs or so, and giving them water. Any info, or a link to a site explaining best way to transport snakes would be much appreciated. First snakes 2 of them , will spend approx 48hrs in the car, and the next lot im getting about 36hrs in the car.

advice would be appreciated!!

cheers
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
0.1 Anery BRB
2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
1.1 het hypo BRB

Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
1.0 Anery BRB
0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

If It were me, I'd package each snake at pickup and not open the package until I got home to put them into their new environment. As long as they're kept out of extreme temperatures, they should be fine. IMO they'd stress more being messed with on the trip than if they were tied in a bag and put into a small, secure container where they could feel the walls and left for the duration of the trip. I just had a couple of babies delayed in shipping, they were in confined packaging for just shy of 48 hours and were just fine. If they're in good shape when you pick them up, they should be ok until you get home. I'd keep 'em in the car tho, not in the boot. Exhaust fumes can get into the boot and it can get hot, not the best for them. They'll ride fine in small boxes on the floor.

ok, just thought the boot though, as with 3 guys in the car with for that long we will have the music playing etc etc. Also there could be more than 20snakes coming along for the ride. There is a definetely 3.6 brbs getting picked up, maybe up to 6.9 though and i might be also picking up some young sharp albinos, for some breeders here What about the water factor??

we looked at our route, and added an extra country, Slovakia, as its only about 15km out of the way between poland and czech republic, and the other 2 guys aint been there yet, dont think we will be staying though, anyone seen the movie Hostel??
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
0.1 Anery BRB
2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
1.1 het hypo BRB

Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
1.0 Anery BRB
0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

Dave,
....When I take Rainbow Boas to shows I give them a bowl of water for a couple hours every two days. They do fine that way. The standard 17x17x10 insulated tropical fish box holds a bunch of little snakes in deli cups or small snake bags. I think they actually do best during transport in small containers inside a dark insulated box.
Jeff

>>ok, just thought the boot though, as with 3 guys in the car with for that long we will have the music playing etc etc. Also there could be more than 20snakes coming along for the ride. There is a definetely 3.6 brbs getting picked up, maybe up to 6.9 though and i might be also picking up some young sharp albinos, for some breeders here What about the water factor??
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>>we looked at our route, and added an extra country, Slovakia, as its only about 15km out of the way between poland and czech republic, and the other 2 guys aint been there yet, dont think we will be staying though, anyone seen the movie Hostel??
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>>Dave
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>>2.2 Normal BRBs
>>0.1 Anery BRB
>>2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
>>1.1 het hypo BRB
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>>Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
>>1.0 Anery BRB
>>0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
>>2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

Nice shots---especially the one on the hand/wrist with the two different colors side-by-side. It really shows off the contrast between them!
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Renee

2.0 amel & anery corns (Foxfire & Daguerre)
1.0 BRB (Loki)

Dave, both of mine have dark eyes, I've seen dark and light eyes in most of my collection, while Im like the lighter ones, I don't think they have anything to do with morphs.

Tawney on 2006/11/06

Tawney on 2008/02/22 (she should be ready to breed this fall)

Popeye on 2007/09/27

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Popeye with Harriet also on 09/27

Popeye on 2008/02/27

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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

ok yeah was wondering if it runs with the morph, or if eye colour is an inheritable trait. Of the 2.2 of that clutch i have at the moment, all have that bright grey coloured eyes.

Its amazing the change that your anerys have made dave, i sort of wish the anery stayed the colour from birth though!!! guess that will be a 40yr line breeding project for you

You said one of yours will breed next fall? what will you breed it with? a normal and get a start on the ghost project?

also was reading up lately on albino boas, and noticed a few sites were saying that you should not breed albino x albino and that you get much better results with het breedings. Is this something just with the albinos, or does it apply to many other snakes around. Ie not breeding the homozygous pairs together?

cheers
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Dave

2.2 Normal BRBs
0.1 Anery BRB
2.1 66% poss het anery BRB
1.1 het hypo BRB

Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show
1.0 Anery BRB
0.1 66% poss het anery BRB
2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

My Anery and het anery that will be of age are siblings and the female is the Anery. I will be breeding them as a 1.1 pair only since I don't want to make 50% hets. My Anery male will be of age the following season and then I will start my outcrossing projects.

The real problem with breeding two visual recessive morphs is getting ones that are not closely related. Visual x visual is fine but can be problematic if there are "bad" genes concentrated in the pair along with the morph gene you are breeding for.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats