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I found Myra having her babies, around 9pm tonight...caught her right at the end, pushing out the last few...lots of laddertails...this is going to be an outstanding group of holdbacks

The mother is a 50% Suriname het albino, produced by Todd Smith and Dr. Bryan Wayne in 2003. I acquired her and two of her siblings, in early 2007; later that year she was paired with her laddertail brother, and produced the first Roswell male.

2007 Roswell male and laddertail siblings:

The father this year is an unrelated 25% Suriname het that was produced in 2004 by Steve Reiners of BoaMorph.

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Heather Martin
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A group shot, after the cleanup...

Final count is:

6 normal pattern

4 normal pattern albino

4 laddertail albino (one stillborn)

11 laddertail

2 slugs

Ignoring the albinos, that makes 10 normal pattern, and 15 laddertail/connected pattern(presumed to be hets for Roswell, but further pairings are needed to be certain).

Something else interesting happened, two of the albinos are miniatures...they had some external yolk, and were a bit wound up in their umbilicals. The lighter colored one is very weak and I don't think it will survive...but the darker colored one appears fine, just really tiny...they are about half the size of the others...strange for sure:confused:. The darker colored one seems to be a laddertail...

I don't know what happened to the stillborn albino...looked fully formed, just wasn't alive...

More pics...

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Heather Martin
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Those are a great looking bunch of babies (presumably some of which are Het Roswell). Gotta love the new baby pics. You've got a great project with the Roswells. Can't wait to see post-shed pics.

Congrats again,

Jay

Thanks Jay! If they color up anything like last years, it will be a sight to see...

It's remarkable how much some of the laddertails resemble their mother in every way...they could be clones, LOL
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Heather Martin
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That is one sweet looking pile o babies!!!

Congrats Heather!!!!!
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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 (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Im very excited for you!! Congrats! You are just spitting out
them Roswell Sibs eh? Have a awesome day!
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Kenny Bowman

"Symetry Exotics"
Honesty is the only route to TRUE respect, anything else is unacceptable....

Once again, you have produced some amazing hets for a morph I can only dream of having! Those normals are freaking stunning! Bright red tails and crisp patterns... and the albinos are a real treat as well! I never tire of looking at photos of your animals...

Funny thing, I got a midget in one of my litters this year too... named her Midget Herbie, because she had a little kink in her tail right by the vent and when she gets moving it sticks up like an antenna! Obviously, mine is being kept as a pet due to the kink, but I thought it was interesting that you had some midgets yourself.

Thanks for posting!
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Steph S.
Boas...
1.1 Albino boas (Loki & Hope)
1.1 Sunglow (Rojo and Temperance (25% Suriname))
1.4 07 Het. albino boas (Petty & Lady,Sierra,Madeline,Lola)
0.1 Reverse stripe poss. het albino (Cookie)
0.1 Salmon/hypo (Scarlet)
1.0 Anery (Reno)
1.0 Probable Super Salmontine(Kahn)
0.1 Salmontine (Sonya)
2.0 DH Sunglow (Gabrielle and Dumah)
1.0 Hypo het anery (Don Juan)
1.1 07 Hypo pos. triple hets (Rico Suave & Pumpkin)
1.0.1 Het. Anery (Guy & ?)
0.1 2007 Mostly striped boa (Andromeda)
0.3 Normals (Ophelia, Sasha, & Lulu)
1.0 Surinames (Solomon & Surreal(deceased)
1.3 Hog Isles (Mr.Orange & Peaches, Tang, Isis)
0.0.1 Central American (Sassy)
1.0 ATB (Satan... seriously!)
Pythons...
2.1 GTPs (B., Monty & Jewel)
0.0.2 BPs ( Precious, Houdini)
1.2 Carpet Pythons (Jackson, Charlotte, & Cassandra)
1.2 Blood python (Akaia, Thorn, Elliot)
1.1 Borneo Blood Pythons (Donovan and Deanna)
1.2 Children's Pythons (Spot, Freckle and Speckle)
Misc.
1.1 Mandarin Ratsnakes (Jack & Jill)
1.0 Boxer/Pitt Mutt (Tyson)
1.0 Saharan Uromastyx

Thanks! I think I got more sidestriping and heavy patterns this time around than any of the previous kids...I can't wait to see this group shed out

The mini boas were pretty cool...at first I thought they might be twins, but they each had their own egg membrane and yolk...

The very pale mini albino died overnight...but the other small one is still hanging in there...

I sure hope he makes it. I took a pic of him, in a sterilite shoebox, you can see how tiny he is...I can almost imagine it's an albino candoia ground boa...sooooo tiny!

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Heather Martin
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I really like the squaretails.I think this morph improves the look of all other morphs. I especially like it when they get the hour glass shape. Are you holding back all the squaretails?

Heather Congratulations on producing another litter of beautiful Rosewell Laddertails.

Can't wait to see post shed photos of them.

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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

Congrats Heather on another awesome laddertail litter!! very cool!

Very "NICE" litter Heather!!! Those should prove to be a valuable asset to the Roswell Boa project!!! Nothing like diversifying and strengthening the blood lines!

Huge congrats!!!

Chaz Neely
constrictors@comcast.net

Wow, those albinos look great, but those laddertails are phenomenal! Simply gorgeous! Please keep us updated on this litter's progress.
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Stay United!

"...I say 'apparently' because despite all our progress she is not at all a tame or handle-able snake and gettting her from that cage would re-start a war.. and we've had a good armistice for several months now."-Gus Rentfro - I love this quote!

Congratulations on a beautiful litter! And the pic of her '07 babies is phenomenal.
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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
6.6.1 Bci
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

You've got a great line of Laddertail/Roswell stuff going on over there! I think it's great!

Mark
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uncommonboa.com

Congratulations Heather,these laddertail Roswells are beautiful !
Great pronounced thick patterns on these

. . . Lar M
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Boas By Klevitz
Boas By Klevitz

Wow Heather! What a Boa Breeder you are! I don’t think anyone has been a more consistent a breeder than you have been. You couldn’t ask for greater babies each and every time! Great looking babies that pretty clearly show exactly how the Roswell Morph works in my mind. There may be a few babies that are borderline and not as obvious as others, but other than that, now two breedings from another male with the original females, I don’t think that leaves any doubt in anyone’s mind exactly how this mutation works. I am very happy for you and congratulate you! You have had very impressive results as an accomplished Boa Breeder.

Wow! WoW!! WOW!!!
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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site

on some Roswell animals... be it the hets or an actual Roswell... I just want IN on that project! One of these days I want to be able to lay a Roswell next to a Scoria and take some comparison shots of the two. Ahh... to dream...
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TopNotchBoas.com Website

.......They make hypos look like s**t.
Mike

Thanks! I think I'm even more excited about this litter, than the previous one in April...seeing all those laddertails/connected patterns show up, again, was pretty amazing

I'll get more pics up once they all shed out...
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Heather Martin
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