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I think I might keep this female, she is also 66% possible het for amel and has already instantly inhaled a pinky, just like all her other clutchmates. I think she has nice clean stripes back midway and then fades to dashes. Also she has a very interesting head pattern, kinda looks like a face, a foo man chu devil, or a unicorn pig, lol. What do you think? a keeper or nothing special just sell her?

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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.0 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.1 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus

If she's special to you then by all means keep her. You're the one who has put in the time and all of the work to produce her. She is a very. very nice looking snake and one that would definitly be hard to part with. If she was mine, I'd probably keep her.

>>I think I might keep this female, she is also 66% possible het for amel and has already instantly inhaled a pinky, just like all her other clutchmates. I think she has nice clean stripes back midway and then fades to dashes. Also she has a very interesting head pattern, kinda looks like a face, a foo man chu devil, or a unicorn pig, lol. What do you think? a keeper or nothing special just sell her?
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cool the head pattern looks almost like a cobra's
I like it
I'D KEEP IT
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Thanks for the replies guys, I think I will keep her, if nothing else because she has a good shot at producing butter stripes form me, but part of the reason I asked is that I am completely ignorant as to what is considered a "good" or "desirable" stripe pattern and also if the carmel stripe is something people like or just an ugly duckling. Sometimes i look at her and think that brown and gray is just kinda dull and ugly, and other times I think it is really neat and suttle, which emphasizes the pattern rather than just being all about the color. Clearly I think more people are interested in eye popping "wow" colors, so maybe there isn't much of a market for the carmel stripe, and that is what initially catches my eye too.
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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.0 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.1 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus