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After quite a few years of finally finding wild Apalachicola Kingsnakes, getting them to feed, and with help getting them to breed, this year has happily produced. Here are several pairs from 3 different clutches.

First: Leon Co. Male x Gulf Co. Female

Male:

Female:

Pair of offspring:

Second: Franklin Co. Male x Franklin Co. Female

Male:

Female:

Pair of offspring:

Third: Franklin Co. Male x Liberty Co. Female

Male:

Female:

Pair of offspring:

I like the two patternless ones. The red one looks like many I produce.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Mark, are you breeding any patternless to patternless? Unfortunately both patternless I posted are males. Would have been even sweeter if they were a pair.

I have been emailing you but no response. I lost my male and need one of those guys....
I will have some back ups in line for next year though..
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Mark,

Did you not get my email today? I responded to the one you sent me.

yup.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Some of those patternless kings are smokin'!

Some of my kings from a few different locales further south should be breeding for the first time this coming season.

Nick, did you get anything to breed this year? How are those Kings doing you've found around your area?

I got one clutch of eggs from a high yellow Hillsborough County king to a non-locale morph (lavender). Out of 15 eggs, 3 hatched. Not the most exciting project...

My locale kings did not breed this year. All of the males showed interest, but the females were in anti-breeding mode. I've been feeding the females a lot this year in an effort to get them into better breeding condition for next year. I'm pretty confident everything will work out next year.

How late did you attempt to breed them? The AKs bred late this year with the first clutch hatching around mid-September. The other two were in early October. Last year my males were all over the females with none reciprocating but I think I gave up too soon.

I was putting them together all the way up into June. The males were still all over the females, but the females were still just whipping and trying to get away.

You did dim the lights, put on some Barry White, get some candles going, etc. didn't you.

Do you really need to be giving away trade secrets like that?
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Darwin Rocks!

Dang, I thought everyone knew. I mean, Barry White...we all know that works right.

I've been playing them Barry Manilow. Geez...

beautiful,,,,great work,,,i ended up buying mine,,,how many offspring did you get?

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Eastern King 0.1
Mexican Black King
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Hypo Brooks 1.0
White Sided Bull 1.0
Striped Pacific Gopher
Axanthic Brooksi 0.1
Goini King 1.0
Northern Pine 1.0
Arizona Mtn. King 1.0

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There were about 19 offspring all together I think.

Very nice. Though they are all nice I gotta say that last neonate is a real looker. This is just my opinion but not too manny snakes out there have the vibrant and colored contrast of a neonate blotched. With all the selective breeding and crossing I don't see too many classic blotched kings any more.

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Darwin Rocks!

I agree. The last one is definitely smoking. I'm more partial to less red so that one should turn out to be one beautiful adult someday.

I'm partial to anything hi color but in my experience the presents of yellow indicates that the color will persist into adulthood. Red is no as good an indicator of adult color. Outside of that I really like its kind of striped yet patternless look. Just a real smoker all the way around.
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Darwin Rocks!

I think the high red juvies are certainly attractive but I'm with you on ones that come out lighter/more yellow. Red never lasts into adulthood and of all the ones I've seen, they're rather unattractive IMO. Just my personal taste.

...looks attractive in hatchlings, but doesn't seem to be retained into adulthood. In some kings the red fades to a nice peach coloration, but it seems in most cases it just turns to a brown or a dull orange and just obscures what would otherwise be bright crossbands. At least, thats what I have seen in my collection.

WOW, now that is impressive man.Thanks for sharing.
Shannon

Thanks Shannon!

No thank you for the post. Did you get my e-mail?
Shannon

p.s. if not can you e-mail me @
zonata@highsierrareptiles.com

Thanks

wow very nice. it seems like you have quite a project going there. considering the revival of interest in eastern kings over the last few years, maybe it is about time for a revival of classic goini. thank you for the pictures and post.

daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...

Thanks Dave. I think there's always been an interest in these Kings but Keith Hillson certainly helped revive them with his website. If there's one thing about Apalachicola Kings, the variety of patterns among them varies greatly. Makes it hard to decide which ones I really like best.

Congrats Sean!
I sent you an e-mail a few weeks ago. Did you
happen to get it?
-Phil Patton
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Work is the curse
of the drinking class!

Phil, I did not receive anything.I'm thinking some unknown emails are going into my Spam folder because I've had a few other people asking me if I received their emails as well. Anyway, you can reach me at sblude02 at yahoo.com