Reptile & Amphibian Forums

small clutches but hey, better than nothing.
This stuarti is het hypo and was bred by its het hypo brother so with some luck we will see a hypo.

this is really a kingsnake but its still tri-colored.Its a young tapalpa jalisco ruthveni.

L8r

Very cool!,....hey, do you have any fairly recent shots of the hypo stuarti as an adult?, I know you have a hatchling pic of it on your website from a while back.

Hey!,....what's with the fake arcifera?......just kiddin!..LOL!

~Doug
-----
"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

you said it was a het to het breeding,......so does Scott or Nathan own the actual hypo animal?

thanks, ~Doug
-----
"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Sad Story, I sold the hypo to Nathan not knowing it was hypo.It was totally normal as a hatchling.At about 8 months old it was clear that it was a hypo.Nathan was about to send her back to me so I could finish raising her up and breed her back to dad and she just up and died on him.That was a couple years ago.
Last year I got bad eggs from her and this year god eggs so we will see.I will have to keep all the babies for about a year before I will know I think?

Anyway, thats the only pic that there is.

L8r Shannon

Man!,...that's too bad bro!,...Hope there's some hypo's inside that clutch there.

Yeah,...I guess you won't make that same mistake twice by letting them go prematurely this time!..LOL!,....I'd be holding onto them for a good year too!

good luck this time!, ~Doug
-----
"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Sweet ruthveni. There is a special place in my heart for those guys.

Way back when, I saw a small group of ruthveni. Unbeknownst to me then, they were descendants from originals brought over in the late 70s. They were large, especially in girth, compared to many seen today. I could swear one of them was well over 3ft and thick enough to swallow a small rat.

Would you know what locale they could have been from? Darker than the locale you pictured here, slightly higher band count if I remember correctly, and much more robust.
-----
Mark

Mark, I work with all three known locales in the hobby.I am sure you are talking about the Almaelco line that Llemke and others brought back in the late 70's and early to mid 80's.
I still have a wild caught male here from Llemke that was wild caught in 83 as a adult.He is still chugging along and breeding.He is also the grandfather to all the aberrant and striped animals you see in the hobby.

The third line is from Jalapan and is the furthest east they have been found.I also have one of those thats about 20 years old now.

L8r Shannon

very nice, Shannon. I would love to see a hypo pop out of that clutch. keep us posted on what you get.

Dave
DNS Reptiles - Updated

Thanks Dave,All I can do is hope.

L8r Shannon

Really hope you do well with the het hypo pairing.... sincerely it'd be nice just to have another produced... and if you do photgraph the hell outta it! Best of luck.

Chris