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Here are some pictures of post shed Cyclone Hypos from Litter #1
The Parents...

The Kids....

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Robert McPhee
www.BBCExotics.com

Looking great Bob!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Great litter! The parents are beautiful.
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Cheers,
Jessica
10.15 Ball Pythons; 8.9 Corn Snakes; 0.0.1 Green Tree Python
2.2 Jungle Carpet Pythons
1.0 Cay Caulker
1.0 Nic, 0.1 Tpos Nic
1.0 Hypo Het Albino BCI, 0.1 Albino BCI
0.0.1 BCC (almost 20 yrs old)
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

What do you think we would get with a fully striped cyclone bred to a fully striped MP line?

Im not sure what the results would be, but I would assume that there would be some nice aberrant babies, and probably some fully striped ones as well.
Unfortunately, in the interest of both lines, it would probably be better to not breed these lines together, this is my opinion anyhow.
I will not be breeding any MP line animals to the Cyclones...as interesting as the results might be it would only cause even more confusion as to what exactly is going on.
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Robert McPhee
www.BBCExotics.com

great looking kids! I can't decide which is my favorite...
Thanks for posting the updated pics
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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

What makes a cyclone? They are really nice looking hypos just dont see what makes them different from other hypos. Just asking.
Thanks,
Jeff

I really think you have something special going on with your line of salmons. How many stipers have you produced to date? Do you think you have anything genetic going on?

Thats why i was asking what makes them a cyclone. I have been producing them since 2002 with the orange tail line. They are just real abarent hypos. I have produced striped ones in every litter including the first breeding from a nice normal bread to a hypo. I have produced about 12 striped ones so far. Hear are a couple from this year.
Thanks,
Jeff

Those look nice Jeff. Very similar appearance, and is probably very similar genetically. The Cyclone line is just simply that, a line that is being refined to enhance the traits I like in the Cyclones.

Actually Jeff,
It seems to me that you have a name for your line as well. I have heard many people refer to your aberrant hypos as Jeff Risher Hypos. In the beginning people called my hypos McPhee hypos, I just took it to the next level with a name and my efforts with refining and isolating the traits as much as I can. The best part is that I have a very diverse group with as much new blood infused as possible. My founding animals come from four separate females and I intend on adding more. I am interested in finding out if the traits I used to define the Cyclone line will be "watered down" as people say or if I can indeed isolate the traits and prevent them from eroding generation after generation. That is why my goal is to produce at least one Cyclone baby that is better than the year before.
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Robert McPhee
www.BBCExotics.com

You can also check out many other discussion from the past....or you can even ask me...any questions give me a call 517-712-4794
There are a couple of people with boas from this line, you could ask them as well.
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Robert McPhee
www.BBCExotics.com

Am I missing something?

All kidding aside,
It seems that you have been on the forum long enough to know about the Cyclone line, frankly Im surprised you have not spoke up until now.
There has been controversy surrounding the Cyclone project since I started working with it in 2004. Ill recap a little for those who have not been watching....

The Cyclone trait or line is my line of animals that I have worked with to produce aberrant high color animals that passes genetically in the first generation to varied degrees.

I produced a litter in 2005, one of my first "morph" litters, using an Ihle Salmon male(with an aberrant pattern) bred to a really nice "normal" female. The male was produced in 2002 by Ihle by breeding a salmon to a Hardy line orangetail hypo. This first litter produced some very nice hypos with great color and very nice aberrancies. Some of the babies had the aberrant pattern from the dad.
I also bred the same male to another female that year. I got a few small aberrancies in the litter just not as nice as the first litter. The next year I produced 2 more litters with the same male, one with the one of the same females as the year before and one "new" female. Once again I produced a decent number of high color and aberrant patterned babies.....
I continued this and in 2008 I produced two litters with two siblings from the 2005 litter and a half sibling female...
F2 Cyclone and pos. Super Hypos

F1 Cyclones and Hypo Cyclones

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Robert McPhee
www.BBCExotics.com