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Here is a picture of the one Kingsville Red line Stillwater Hypo that I produced from 13 eggs. Bad luck, but a nice looking snake. Can't wait to get some size on him and see how he colors up. Has anyone noticed whether or not the red intensifies in Red Hypos? Does the hypo tend to wash out most of the red or have not enough been produced to know yet? Thanks

Ian

I hope that the image below will answer many of your questions!

With any luck I will be breeding hypored to hypored next year. Until then I have only bred het hypo reds to one another.

Keep in mind that the hypo is a simple recesive where as the red trait is the elusive multivarient genetics. Hopefully breeding two hand picked red hypos will produce a clutch of hypo super visual reds.......keep your fingers crossed

Well, I hope my hypo turns out like that!! If so I would be more than happy. Has anyone noticed any temp dependent sex determination in Pituophis? I had never heard of it before, but out of 13 eggs I only got males and I know that the eggs got kind of hot (~85F) at one point, so it has me wondering. It could be just some really bad luck, but with that kind of sample size it at least has me wondering.

Ian

I don't think it's possible for temperature to affect the sex of pit (or any?) snake eggs. I think you may just be the victim of bad luck...

Hey Ian,
Congrats! Nice looking snake. Shoot me an email when you get a chance and let me know what all you produced this year.

Take care,
Jeff Port