Reptile & Amphibian Forums

I purchased a few kings over the last year and this is one project that I am really looking forward to. I picked these because of their reduced black and high white heads. The babies should be killer when I get to breed them 2 years from now.

Thought I would share a few pictures from cage cleaning today.

Female from Ric Blair

Male from Jonel Lopez.

If any of you all have knobs with reduced patterns, It would be great if you could share. I would like to see how these stack up against others.
-----
-Daniel Hill

>>If any of you all have knobs with reduced patterns, It would be great if you could share. I would like to see how these stack up against others.

Daniel....Those are NICE Knoblocki.....

I have 1.1 2009 Knobs from Shannon Brown's Candy Cane line....
Both have nice reduced black....
The adult in the pics is a 1998 Ric Blair Knob that I have as well....Pretty classic looking....4.5' and 500 grams.....








-----
John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Great looking Knobs. That adult female has some nice deep red to her.

A deep red, no black banding, solid white head.....ha ha...It might take 20 years of selective breeding but that would be one smoking snake

I have seen a few references to Shannon's Candy Cane line before, but really wasn't aware of its origins. Do you mind sharing some background info?
-----
-Daniel Hill

My candycane line was a total accident.I was just breeding f2 animals from Philly Zoo line that wheren't related to any other lines in the hibby.Thats the only reason I even had them.My adults are nice but nothing super special but man do they kick out some killer babies.I will be able to breed the babies ( the candy canes) to each other and back to there parents in 2011.I produced one killer female in (08) and one more nice female in (09) and hope to pop out a male next year.
p.s. I use the candycane name becuae it is fitting but they have NO connection at all to Bob Applegates "candycane" pyros.

L8r
Shannon

this is the female from (08).

this is the female I produced this year (09).
[img]http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/803candycane_1.jpg{/img]

this is my adult female San Jaunito locale.

and this is my adult male from San Juanito.

this is a super killer female I have here on loan also.I will see what she throws when bred by my candycane line male.

I think maybe I will try this female as well this year.She is from my aberrant line but she is very clean.

L8r

Those are NICE Shannon......
Repost that female you produced this year...
The pic did not show up....the IMG code has an error in it...
-----
John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

here she is.

Nice animals.
I have a few....

:Mark
-----
Surrender Dorothy!

crimsonking.piczo.com/

WOW. That one almost has no black on the banding. Thanks for sharing. Great snake.
-----
-Daniel Hill

>>I purchased a few kings over the last year and this is one project that I am really looking forward to. I picked these because of their reduced black and high white heads. The babies should be killer when I get to breed them 2 years from now.
>>
>>Thought I would share a few pictures from cage cleaning today.
>>
>>Female from Ric Blair
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Male from Jonel Lopez.

Both are very nice, you should produce some nice orange-red knobs with those two. I was looking at some of Jonels Knobs a few weeks back on his site and was temped!
I'm kind of disappointed that I'm going to have to wait two years to see your hatchlings from those two.lol
Here's some of that orange-red I was telling you about.

-----
R.Bichlers Colubrids
http://www.webspawner.com/users/rbichler/index.html

Ha ha....ya. I am disappointed in waiting another couple of years too.

The male is an 2008. The female is an 2007.

I guess it will be two years. Ha ha. Kinda new to these guys.

I also have another 2008 female from Jonel. She has some nice thick black bands but her reds are great. Great guy to get snakes from.

Here is an older picture of her:

-----
-Daniel Hill

>>Ha ha....ya. I am disappointed in waiting another couple of years too.
>>
>>The male is an 2008. The female is an 2007.
>>
>>I guess it will be two years. Ha ha. Kinda new to these guys.
>>
>>I also have another 2008 female from Jonel. She has some nice thick black bands but her reds are great. Great guy to get snakes from.
>>
>>Here is an older picture of her:
>>
>>-----
>>-Daniel Hill

2007 Female and a 2008 male? They should be ready to go in the spring, I'd give it a try.
Bob
-----
R.Bichlers Colubrids
http://www.webspawner.com/users/rbichler/index.html

Good stuff man,
L8r

Hey Shannon, what happened to the albino cal king that you got from that guy that found it on the road and put it in the sawzall case in the back of his truck? I was wondering if you ever figured out if it was a true wild caught or an escaped captive? I found some post on it in the cal king forum. I think it was back in 2007. Thanks
-----
Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

I still have her but I have had no luck getting her to breed.It took a while for me to get good weight on her but then I did and the last two years have just had no luck with her.Not even a slug?I will ry again this coming year.