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Babies... and not what I was expecting!!

Death_ADDER Jun 07, 2009 02:44 PM

Well I bred this girl to my male coral albino... he got her to ovulate and all. So I thought I'd get a bunch more het coral albino. Actually not at all... I also put my male poss. super salmon het sharp, from Rich Ihle, for maybe 5 days. There was no real action so I took him out and put the male coral albino. I guess the possible super salmon is now a proven super salmon. All babies are salmons 50% het sharp albino. It was a lil surprise but I don't mind it at all. The babies are all full of colors and actually very light for babies. I can't wait to see them after their first couple of shed... they should be amazing. Anyway enough talking here are some pictures.

Updated picture of the dad... now a proven super salmon

and the babies!!!





























Steve
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Replies (6)

symetryexotics Jun 07, 2009 04:47 PM

Congrats! very nice PINK ones in there!!
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Kenny Bowman

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

rainbowsrus Jun 07, 2009 04:57 PM

First off, congrats on the litter and they look very nice!!!

The fact your pos Super proved out and was the father of all the babies is the ONLY thing that saved you. The land mine you missed is the whole Kahl/Sharp thing.

Plain and simple you could have had a litter with some Salmon and some not. With three clear scenarios getting you there...

1) The Pos Super sired all the babies and was not super = all babies 50% het Sharp.

2) Some sired by the Kahl Coral Albino and some sired by the Pos Super Salmon het Sharp which is a super = all Salmons are 50% het Sharp, All non-Salmons are het Kahl

3) Some sired by the Kahl Coral Albino and some sired by the Pos Super Salmon het Sharp which is NOT a super = all Salmons are 50% het Sharp, the non-Salmons are a mix of either het Kahl or 50% het Sharp

The long term affects are that someone could get a unknown hat Albino gene in an animal identifed as the other strain of albino. If two of those animals were to get together, some of the albino offspring could unknowingly be from the other strain. Really messing up future projects. as they are sold as the wrong strain.

IMHO once a female has been bred to one strain, it should never be bred to the other strain unless two or more years have gone by to eliminate the remote possibility of sperm retention. And breeding to multiple males is OK as long as they are the same strain.

Of course that decision is one for each breeder to make on their own, just pointing out the possible ramifications later on
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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

Death_ADDER Jun 07, 2009 05:19 PM

Yeah I completely understand... the male was young and small and he did no copulating so I switched him out for a male that I knew would breed. It happened this way and yeah I agree that I got lucky lol.

Steve
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DASnakes.com

ajfreptiles Jun 07, 2009 05:01 PM

Congrats!!!!!

THAT IS VERY EXCITING!!!

Andy
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LarM Jun 07, 2009 07:04 PM

Certainly is a nice looking group Steve and
I would say a nice surprise !

. . . Lar M
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Boas By Klevitz
Boas By Klevitz

LCE Jun 07, 2009 08:38 PM

Congratulations!! Terrific looking group of babies. The unexpected things are generally the most thrilling.

I'm glad it worked out well for you---Kraig

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