Hey all,
What is your idea of the perfect Splendida?
Is it the classic heavy speckling with contrasted lines, The hypo's & hets with their cal king "integrade" influencing their yellow sides to be more of a solid, leaving a constant line of speckles above the side patterns? Or possibly the you like the influence of the nigritis or the speckled king.
Either way I'm obsessed with this quest to breed a great "classic" look that comes from area lacking other kingsnakes.
With the other goal's of breeding out all the yellow from the face/neck to leave it as a TRUE sockhead, like the womas and making a solid wall of of consistent non-breaking speckles.
Also..Obviously no breaks in the connecting lines over their spine
So on to the questions!
1.I've been keeping this specie as pets(non breeders) for a long time, so I have low experience on knowing how much their color changes and their pattern disperses.
But I've heard their pattern spreads out and color diminishes as they age.
Maybe those ones are more typical of nigritis genepool?
For the sake of selective breeding, do I choose a baby that has heavier speckling than I prefer or is this just like cal king's whose different locals/lines go drab or almost black, without integrading?
I would very much appreciate info locating people with experience stories, pictures, or stock to sell...anything relative.
More importantly do you know a splendida breeder? I need more selection!
This is the solid consistent wall of speckles I'm trying to make (thicker top bands though)
This female is another great example of what I'm trying to breed
Ok I've found exactly one of the looks that I'm desperately trying to obtain, wow I need this.
So would a baby version of this be like an almost solid wall of color??
How do you guy's think a baby like this would turn out?
Ok I'll stop rambling for a while
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~Eric~
the S. GA getula (both wide-banded and narrow-banded). and various variations of cal kings (mostly desert striped and banded)...
