Before I begin, I want to just take a moment to congratulate all of you on a great start to this year's season. I have thoroughly enjoyed everyone's posts and pictures of their projects and personal successes. Seeing beautiful gravid females, egg-laying and babies hatching out certainly gets everyone excited. So again thank you all for making this forum what it is today.
As most of you know, even though I work with a handful of different triangulum, my focus for years has been to produce some of the nicest (and oddest) sinaloans and nelson's seen around. Well, the last two weeks have been going very well down here in Texas. Some might say "wow, that's pretty late to get started on this year's breedings" but, in all actuality most of my colonies of animals will naturally breed later in the year as is the case with most sinaloans and nelson's.
So, on one late evening nearly two weeks ago, with my pregnant wife falling fast asleep, I slipped into the snake room where I was greeted with curious eyes and smiling faces. With two or three sheds behind them, they somehow new that it was time.....
First I checked on the awaiting males and females
Another female Double Het (Hypoerythristic/Albino)
Hypoerythristic female
A High Yellow Albino female
Aberrant Albino male
An Applegate Splotched male
A Vanishing Pattern male
After taking my time and looking over the racks, I began introducing select females into the desired males cages. This process was no different than any other time and I didn't really think much of it. After every male was set up with a lady to his liking the tail thrashing began. I turned off the light and left the room.
After taking a quick shower I returned. Sneaking around I found the room quiet. To my amazement almost every pair of sinaloans I had thrown together were either locked up or just moments from copulation! I have had handfuls of animals breed at the same time but never 14 pairs at once! It was simply incredible.
What a sight. I first noticed my high yellow Moody Line albinos locked up as well as an high yellow male with a nice het female. The hypoerythristic or "pumpkin" sinaloans were breeding as well as two pairs of double hets (hypoerythristic/ albinos). High white albinos and my aberrant and striped albinos were seeing quite a bit of action too. Diming the lights not to disturb them too much, I was able to get a few shots. Others I left alone....
High Yellow Albino with het female
Hypoerythristics
Double Hets (Hypoerythristic/Albino)
Another pair of double hets
This male, a possible hypoerythristic albino was caught doing the deed with a nice double het female. Should make for some interesting offspring.
Moving onto another rack, the double het (splotched/albino) sinaloans were breeding along with a few pairs of super nice splotched and vanishing pattern sinaloans.
Double Hets (Splotched/Albino)
Hopefully those breedings will produce more incredible looking babies. Here are a few from the class of 2006.
And a few more like the ones from the class of 2007.
A very cool pairing of a high white albino to an incredible looking splotched. Hope to get some really interesting double hets from these.
And lastly, a very beautiful pair of albinos
Just as quickly as it began, the honeymoon was over. I was still in amazement as I looked over the room. Then it quickly dawned on me, only 14 males chose to breed and I still had a handful of females that didn't get their chance that evening. Man, this year is looking good.
As of this evening, after multiple opportunities to pair up, 12 of those 14 females that bred two weeks ago are now gravid, along with three additional females. Just like most are having a stellar year with hondurans, this just might be mine for sinaloans. I've got some sweet hondurans but, I'll save that for another post.. LOL...
Hope you enjoyed the post and thanks again to every active member who contributes their time to this forum.
Nathan Wells
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