Hoping this pair will produce a solid black tricolor...
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Sweet Pair of Bicolors
JTColubrids
Jul 31, 2009 03:34 PM
Replies (7)
JustinMitcham
Jul 31, 2009 08:21 PM
those are sweet good luck!! hope they work out!!
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Justin Mitcham
ExtremeHogs.com
LIRepman76
Aug 01, 2009 12:03 AM
Man, those are sweet. Post the breeding results when you hatch them out and how the babies transform as they grow.
brhaco
Aug 01, 2009 09:01 AM
Good luck-that female has about the least amount of white I've seen (which p's me off, because I thought my own female did 
). Be sure to post the offspring from their first clutch!
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG
The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....
kaydee
Aug 01, 2009 12:59 PM
Pretty damn sweet! I may have to see if I can get myself some of these.
JTColubrids
Aug 01, 2009 11:44 PM
Thanks guys, I have others that are sibblings that are lacking red, but these are the only ones that are this black that I have. Hopefully they can produce some sweet bicolors next season
tmshaffer
Aug 02, 2009 01:18 PM
>>Thanks guys, I have others that are sibblings that are lacking red, but these are the only ones that are this black that I have. Hopefully they can produce some sweet bicolors next season
Incredible pair of snakes
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Rextiles
Aug 04, 2009 05:54 AM
>>Hoping this pair will produce a solid black tricolor...
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That's what you would hope but I'm not entirely sure. I too have Bicolors that I've been breeding this last year. Out of the 3 clutches of 18 eggs that have hatched and the fourth clutch of 7 eggs that are hatching now, every single hatchling has been a tricolor. There are a few, only 2 or 3, that appear to have more black speckling on their red scales than the others, so they might eventually lose the red over time. But the majority of the babies look like typical beautiful tricolors. I'm hoping that bicolor-ism is a heritable genetic trait but so far no bicolor hatchlings have popped out. That would more than likely mean that it is not a Mendelian trait but probably a polygenic trait in which several genes are determining the amount of black that is present than just one. If this is the case, then producing a bicolor would be a lot more on the side of luck than anything else. Perhaps selective linebreeding might establish this as well, but the only way to really keep it intact would be through inbreeding that line.
Please keep us informed of your progress with your pair. And yes, that is a stunning almost all black one you have there!
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Troy Rexroth
Rextiles
