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The second clutch from breeding my triple het butter stipe to the same finally is hatching this weekend. This is the result of a 3 year project and on the 3rd clutch I finally hit the odds that I have been working and waiting patiently for. This clutch produced the 2 snakes that have eluded me the past 2 years, an albino stripe (1/16 odds) and the holy grail of this project for me; a butter stripe(1/64 odds). I know the butter stripes have been around for awhile and a butter stripe is no big deal to a lot of people, but I think even though they are a bit of an ugly duckling as hatchlings they get very pretty when they get older and creating one with this pair of visual normal looking triple het corns that I paid $50 for 3 years ago as hatchlings, is a big deal to me. Think about it, 1/64 odds, thats like flipping a quarter 6 times in a row and having all heads!!!

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

>>The second clutch from breeding my triple het butter stipe to the same finally is hatching this weekend. This is the result of a 3 year project and on the 3rd clutch I finally hit the odds that I have been working and waiting patiently for. This clutch produced the 2 snakes that have eluded me the past 2 years, an albino stripe (1/16 odds) and the holy grail of this project for me; a butter stripe(1/64 odds). I know the butter stripes have been around for awhile and a butter stripe is no big deal to a lot of people, but I think even though they are a bit of an ugly duckling as hatchlings they get very pretty when they get older and creating one with this pair of visual normal looking triple het corns that I paid $50 for 3 years ago as hatchlings, is a big deal to me. Think about it, 1/64 odds, thats like flipping a quarter 6 times in a row and having all heads!!!
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>>Jeff Benfer
>>gartersnakemorph.com

congrats Jeff
I'm with you...adult butter stripes are beautiful snakes
anyone can buy one to produce one from normal hets would be very rewarding.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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It does mean a lot more when you put in the time, blood, sweat, and anticipation for 3 years and it finally happens, it's like Christmas morning as a kid, regardless of what kind of snake it is.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

I enjoy playing the #'s game myself.....Like what was said it may be the long way to get the morphs, but it is very rewarding when you hit the JACK POT with the 1/64 or or more odds.....

Yah, I guess this weekend was my trip to Vegas, what happens in my snake room stays in my snake room.....wait that sounds kinda creepy, lol
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

>>Yah, I guess this weekend was my trip to Vegas, what happens in my snake room stays in my snake room.....wait that sounds kinda creepy, lol
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>>Jeff Benfer
>>gartersnakemorph.com

waaaaayyy creepy!
LOL
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Fantastic!! I'm glad that this has finnaly paid off for you Jeff. Looks to me like the wait was worth it!

Thanks, I guess it was worth the wait, but I could hardly stand it when she was pipping, I thought is was a stripe just by looking at the marks or lack of below the lips, I kept telling my wife I thought it was a butter stripe and she was like doubting me "are you sure this time?" but the fact was I wasn't sure and every time I would go down and look at the tub the snake would have it's head sticking about 2" out of the egg but I couldn't get a good look through the tub to see stripes or not, so I would very carefully open the lid, but every time she would be slithered back into the egg before I got the lid opened, so we played cat and mouse for 2 days, she probably would've crawled out of the egg a day earlier if I would have just left her alone,lol
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

congratulations! Very nice!

Congratulations their beautiful. I think breeding hets is one of the most exciting parts of breeding. knowing what you will get is nice but the het to het clutches just seam so much more exciting and rewarding.
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1.2 sunglow motley corns
1.1 anery corn
0.1 WC ?anery? corn
1.2 okeetee corn
1.2 blood red het blizzard
0.1 sunkissed corn
1.1 sunkissed okeetee
0.1 hypo A het amel corn
0.1 hybino corn
1.0 caramel corn
0.1 amber corn
1.0 golddust corn
0.1 golddust het motley
0.1 butter motley corn
0.1 triple het snow motley corn
1.2 high red het albino western hogs
1.2 pos het anery western hogs
24 gal saltwater nano reef

n/p
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

congrats. I got my first butter stripe this year as well. It was from snakes het for pretty much everything. lol. They were both hypo mots het for amel, anery, stripe, carmel.... I know I am forgetting something.

Anyway. Congrats again
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Due to intense Mind fog, all thoughts have been grounded."

Are you sure those are STRIPED Butter corns and not motley striped butters? You can see a few places on both animals where the motley blotches wanted to come it. Striped motleys are cool and the motley & stripe genes are compatable. I only mention this because PURE striped corns will not have those areas. Could be wrong but something to check into. Some people refer to those as "Pin- Striped Motleys" or "Q-Tip motleys".

Congrats on a beautiful clutch.

Graham
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Graham,
While they aren't perfect looking stripes, they are definately homozygous stripe genotypes, there are no motley genes involved, I know this for a fact. I know the grandparents genetics and both parents were raised up by me, never bred to anything else and this is their 3rd clutch proven to both be het amel, caramel, and stripe only, proven many, many times over. I do appreciate and understand your concern because that mistake could easily be made by someone breeding snakes of unknown background.
Jeff
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

They do look like Motley-Stripe!
The Stripe pattern doesn't have the broken lines!
This picture will show you how close a motley-striped can get to a pure stripe.