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So, I only have one granite looking, dark female, that is really less Granite looking and more, dark morph looking. I am interested in getting a nice Granite female someday. Who has them, who has proven ones, who has Granites that have produced Supers, who has promising dinker Granites?

Dave

ember,
are you calling your ball a granite...because that's what you bought it as? or is this what you think it is?

from my experence in seeing granites...the area where the alien heads would be should have more speckling. yours has it, but not that much.

i've heard of some peoples granites being "genetic" however it may also be just "polygenetic" as i've produce "granite looking royals" that had no granite in the pairing while some did.

is your's breeding weight yet? it would be nice to see if you can produce some.

i think it's an underated morph (if it even is a morph) imagine a lavender albino granite??? i think that would look pretty nice.

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Here's a pic of a Granite male we recently picked up. I know it's been proven genetic but I'm not sure if they've produced a super yet.

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Louis Kirkland
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that double stripe on it's neck is awesome. nice snake louis.

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I know Ralph Davis proved his line genetic and produced a super granite. I believe there are a couple of other lines that have proven tp propduce a super as well.
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There are several lines, no one has tried to see if each line compatible. I know Morton Wright has an awesome line that he has mixed with albinos, and those albinos are outrageous. We have a 1.1 pair of granites het albino, and know since they are proven that they will produce killer albino granites.
Most of the granites we have seen are not even close to the proven ones out there. The proven ones are busy, lots of BIG spots, not small fleckling AND are really really eye pleasing.

I'm trying for my second lock with this pair. (YB to Grainte) Can you say Ebony Ball..... BTW she is 1400 grams. I just picked her up this year from someone who claims she's proven genetic.

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This is my dinker, let's hope it's genetic !!!

Thanks for the replies guys. I am looking into getting a Granite, and want to get a really nice one. Looks like some of the Granites are not really dark, interesting.

Dave

Here's my female that will be breeding for the first time this year. Have a male Genetic Granite Yellow Belly from Jon Courtney just for her. Can't wait to see what happens. She's one of my favorite girls. I've noticed that both her and the male are skittish and nervous. Of course that's only 2 examples, but it's crossed my mind if that may be some kind of Granite "thing"...? GREAT eaters though, so that's good.

your snake looks more in my opinon as a granite.

you see absolutly no alien heads on her.....just speckles.

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I bred an orange granite male to an orange granite female last year... also the same male to a brown granite female... all in all, the babies were "granite-ish", but nothing of interest... sold them all off as normals...

However, this next piece may be interesting to some of you... I had a clutch that was just a train wreck this year... for whatever reason, this clutch had a snake with two bad eyes (really swollen, puffy and was obviously blind)... one snake had only one eye, but otherwise appeared healthy... I had a few that had bad kinks (including the one with no eyes)... I had a super cool gold blushing type animal in that clutch as well... in the end, only two animals survived from that clutch... one with a single eye and one that basically appears healthy overall (no missing eyes, no kinking, etc). In this clutch, the two remaining have very clear granite markings, yet the parents do not at all (not related to granite breedings mentioned above).

Soooo... my theory is that a LOT of the granites we see are just incubation or clutch issues and will not prove to be genetic... I know some have proven genetic, and that's very cool! But I'd suspect if you're going to be "dinking" with granites, you'd be working on a lot of animals before you hit one that proves to be genetic...

Either way, cool looking animals and fun to work with, without a doubt!

Regards,
Bristen.

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