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Last year I crossed my amel/hypo(?) yellow/glades(?) with a greenish and a gulf hammock. The babies came out pretty much as expected in terms of coloration.

This year I crossed my two-year old hypo glades with the greenish rat and South Florida yellow.

Well, the greenish just hatched, and MAN they are dark. If I didn't know any better, I'd think they were black rat babies! I just think it's odd that such a light snake ("pure" no less, as there is always debate on my amel yellow being pure) would sire such dark kids.

On a side note, this is my first Florida production, and used no electric incubator, just a shoebox with moss and forest bedding on a closet floor. Worked great! Babies hatched when expected and no kinking from temp fluctuations. Dig them!

Those look just as I would expect them to. They will go through their ontogenic change as they mature, and loose the juvenile pattern(at least to some extent) and become more striped with each successive shedding. Expect them to be fairly dark and not too contrasting though, as that is what the natural "greenish" form is renowned for being. But nevertheless, you will see a HUGE chang in those as they mature, that is for sure.

Take progression shots every few months, and you will be astounded at what you see when you look back at them.

~Doug

this is the same animal exactly one year later!

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Gorgeous glades!

What I'm saying is that these are so much darker than my babies from the same mother (greenish) last year. Last year she was crossed with my yellow (amel/hypo?) and this year she was crossed with my hypo glades. Just didn't expect the babies to be this dark is all.

It is nuts how much they change, though, and how you can't predict what the future holds for them (or at least I haven't mastered that).

Thanks!,..glad you like it.

Yeah, with all the genetic diversity going on with those, you will tend to see a fair amount of fluctuation regarding their phenotypes.

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"