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Picked up this one and another at the Columbia show on Saturday.

This one looks pretty nice, almost looks like a hypo. It was sold as a het hypo. If not a hypo, then its a killer normal. I'll post better pics after I get it home.

Looks like a killer normal. Is that a male?
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This one is a thick female. Possibly gravid too.

Nice snake...

Isn't a brooks a hypo(wild morph) of a regular Fla. king. I was around when Brooks were first collected(on a few dikes). They were named something different, brooks, because they were lighter(hypo). Actually, we did not use that word, hypo, back then.

If I remember anywhere near correctly, many of the wild brooks were liter then the one in the picture. Cheers

Frank maybe i don't understand your question.
The picture that the OP was not a hypo but a normal "het" for hypo. However, technically any light specimen lacking dark is a hypo. But we are refferring to a reccessive trait when we talk about hypomelanistic Florida kings. Not a simple trait passed down to create lighter specimens like your reverse spotted calkings, or a locality like a zonta in the Sierras are darker than southern locales.

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Not so complicated, its just funny to think about a hypo brooks. As they are hypo naturally.

When you call a Fla king a brooks, it means its a local type. The person who posted called it a brooks. So hypo hypo, see funny. Cheers

...is that like a double negative?
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Does two lites make a dark? hahahahahahahaha

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Diego

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mmm... nice nose rub.