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That's HOT! Congrats. Please post more photos as he grows!
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Cheers,
Jessica Gibbs
Ball Pythons; Corn Snakes; Green Tree Python; Jungle Carpet Pythons; Bci; Bcl
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

I agree, I love it. Do you have any full body shots?
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I am number Nine.

jeff pfeifer

Thats a nice Hypo Clown, the way you presented it, I was expecting the triple recessive, Hypo Axanthic Clown!

Congratulations Rich, very nice hit!

medusah, for some reason the single mutation also called hypo was originally named ghost in ball pythons even though that is a combo in other species. So the ball python hypo axanthic combo is called "true ghost".

I realize that Randy, Dan and Colette Sutherland at TSK hatched the first double homo Hypo/Axanthic and rightly so called it a Ghost, not a true ghost! The name true ghost sounds so wrong its not even funny.

It's nice to see more and more people coining the name ''Hypo'', in my book, a Ghost is double homo Hypo/axanthic!

The double hets that produced him were from an orange ghost female bred to a clown ,do you not refer to them as orange ghosts anymore? maybe I'm just old school,Rich.

Nah! I must then be new school, what is the double-homo Hypo/Axanthic called that TSK produced and named? sorry, they are orange Hypos

I knew that TSK lead a valiant campaign several years back to change the name of the single mutation from ghost to hypo and I had noticed that hypo had caught on a lot although I still see "ghost" often. But I didn't know that TSK is calling the combo just Ghost. Did they abandon the "True Ghost" name from the start or did they only use "Ghost" with their new web page? I know we talked about true ghost for years before they finally produced one. I agree that the change needs to happen I just didn't think we where there yet.

The color lines of hypo are another point I'm not so sure about. I thought NERD once posted that they started several of the other colors from selectively breeding a "green" line. Now I hear there might be a new green line that isn't compatible. I produced my first gh.. er hypo this year descendent from TSK's extreme hypo on one side and I think Brian Sharp's on the other. I see Brian now advertizes buterscotch/yellow but not sure which line he was breeding when the ancestor of mine was hatched and sold the the guy I bought my first het from. I'd be tempted to just lump them all together as "group 1 compatible" hypos or something like that. Maybe just name the few lines that aren't compatible?

Rich, was the hypo ancestor of your clown hypo from that girl that was sold as a normal ch baby and then came back into the store as a stunning young adult in the summer of 2001? I've always wanted to get some hypo blood from that line some day. Big opportunity lost not trying to find a way to buy her right before NERD started producing hypo combos and they went from a morph no one could tell from normal in the crappy Internet pictures of the day to a must have.

Hey Randy, thats the one, the mother was bought at a petshop I can't remember if it was" scales" or not and this guy came in with it around his neck ,I ended up buying the snake for $75.00 and she was bred to Alex Tanner's reduced male clown ,the double hets I own are from that pairing I just had a clutch hatch from the double het male to a normal Thanks Randy, Rich Kensinger.

Very Nice clown combo, I am still taken back by regular clowns after all these years, so a morph mixed with a clown is like ball python heaven on earth,lol.
Congrats again very nice.
Chad