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So I was pretty excited to breed 2 perfectly spotted cal kings for the first time this year. The female was bred by me and came from a banded male bred to a striped/dashed female. The male I bought from the late Rick Trenny who had been line breeding spotted cal kings for a while.

MANY people (Achem...Kerby...) Told me that spotting was an aberancy that wouldn't be reliably reproducible.

So here are the parents

Out of a clutch of 9. There were 5 spotted, 2 perfect full stripers, and 1 perfect banded. There was only one that looked like something in between. Unfortunately the most perfect spotted one was a male and he escaped 2 days ago...grrr

Here are a few from the clutch...

5 look basically like this

Then there were these

and the only "abberant" (even he is sort of spotted)

I double clutched this pair and her second clutch just hatched. As you can see, every one is spotted to some degree.

Cheers

those are awesome looking
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~Maggie~

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
1.1 Cal Kings (Spot and Fry)
1.0 Brooksi
0.1 Red Belly Piranha (Fluffy)
1.0 Australian Shepherd (Spooky)
1.0 Springer Spaniel/Beagle mix (Snoopy)
0.1 German Shep mix (Shadow)
0.1 Cat (Echo)

my friend produces spotteds every year too... i like them
~kin
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Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, A pair of Leucistic Black Rat X Leucistic Texas Rat Intergrades, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn, Ball Pythons, A reverse Trio of Candoia, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping Turtle, a White Cheeked Mud Turtle, a Bearded Dragon, an Adult Rescue Iguana, and A Baby Iguana

excellent work ,and sweet stuff with the second clutch
nice babies
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1.1 pueblan milks
1.1 alb corn
1.1 anerythristic corn
1.1 gray rat
0.1 yellow rat
1.1 gret plains (emory) rats
1.1 texas rats
1.1 florida kingsnakes
1.1 eastern kings
1.2 alb florida kings
0.1 flame phase goini
0.1 goini
0.1 snow king

Those are some great looking snakes. I can't get enough of the striped kings. Perhaps I'm a little crazy about them. There is no known cure for me. I have some nice corns, but just think they are the greatest thing about snakes.

Dave
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One man with faith equals the majority.
Thomas Jefferson