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Any pictures of these guys??

Thanks
Brent

This guy here sired most of my clutches this year.

byron.d

These are a tough morph to find in the wild. They can be more common at some locales, but still make up the minority of the population. These are always a special find. Here's a wild caught adult.

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A captive produced juvenile.

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I collected a gravid normal banded female which produced 7 eggs. This was the only one out of the 7 that came out hyper.

Some have dark bellies and others don't for some reason.

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Siblings

BTW, nice shots Byron. I love those LB kings!
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I knew you'd jump in with some of those awesome hypers of yours!

Outstanding Ross!

byron.d

Ross, those are beauties, man! Wow!

reako45

Hey, Thanks guys. I had no idea I would stumble across these when I first started hunting L.A. Co.
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Those are some great looking specimens!, some of those pics were really outstanding too!

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

Yeah, Byron, that guy's a beauty.

reako45

Here is a yearling... from The LBC.

byron.d

These two females were both collected as young adults and produced good clutches for this year. Both are from the 'Oil Fields' and show a low expression of the hyper trait, yet produced very dark offspring.

byron.d

Very cool! I love these posts about locality Cal Kings. Keep 'em comin'.

reako45

Steelers need to win today...........

I dont have anything to add about Cal Kings. But I wanted to say "Who Dey!" to this guy.
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God Bless Evolution.

>>I dont have anything to add about Cal Kings. But I wanted to say "Who Dey!" to this guy.

Word.

Hello all,

last season I hatched 2 unusual calkings from a clutch of normal ones. Both have black belly and overall darker color, both more black and also a darker background color
I hope the link to the photo works.
Parents and sibs are normal.
Parents are siblings, so my guess is, this morph is simple recessive in this case at least.
Any input on them is wellcome, thanks,
David

Yes the hypermelanistic gene (Mendotas, Davis, Baja etc..) are a simple recessive gene. And I know of hundreds of hets are out there as I have wholesaled a bunch of them in the last 6 years or so.

So people should be popping out hypermelanistics from normal looking cal kings. I've also wholesaled a lot of double hets of various recessive genes in the past.

Kerby...

Thank you!
It was a surprise for me.
I got both grandparents like ten years ago, one from the USA, the other from Sweden!
I live in Uruguay, and the few calkings available are usually mine )

David

It was meant to be a laugh