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This '09 pair just blows me away.

Their patterns are nearly identical..

Thanks for looking.

byron.d

Byron,

I have never been a big FL king guy, but those two blow me away! Very nice. Did you produce them?

Craig
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God Bless Evolution.

I recently got in the FL kings myself, and these were a 'must have' for sure.

I didnt produce these - but am looking forward to when I do.

byron.d

Who did you get those from, if I can ask?
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God Bless Evolution.

Definately one of my favorite morphs.

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Kevin Harrell
www.harrellandsonsherps.com

Those are all killer! Stop it, dang it!
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Todd Hughes

Both of mine have that black belly too.

Cant wait for these to get some size on them.

byron.d

Awesome Mosaics Byron!, I would do back-flips to find some like that in the southern Okeechobee area where they originated!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

That would be just awesome.

There doesnt seem to be much history out there on this morph...
Would you mind posting alittle more of what you know???

I had no idea where they even originated until you just posted it - thanks for that!

byron.d

Well, although there have been a couple aberrant partial striped individuals captured from the Tampa Bay area of Hillborough County(David Justice), a few have also been found in Manatee County as well. However it seems that the origin of most aberrants known in the hobby today were founded from wild-caught animals from Hendry County, which is just south southwest of Lake Okeechobee in the abundant cane field areas. These were captured by Carl May, a snake hunting buddy of Sean Belanger in March of 2004. The snakes were actually normal phenotype kings that were collected at the time, but BOTH were gravid females. Sean B. later hatched the eggs from one of the gravid females that he chose to keep(gave the other to Phil Peaks), and out of 6 snakes that Sean hatched, four of them were normal, and two were completely aberrant. These are the snakes that originated most of the aberrant lines that are seen in the hobby today.

best regards, ~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Thanks very much for posting that!

byron.d

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

and out of 6 snakes that Sean hatched, four of them were normal, and two were completely aberrant. These are the snakes that originated most of the aberrant lines that are seen in the hobby today.

I think Bill Brant had these before Phil. I will call them and ask them about where they got their original stock.

I have both lines and there is a difference bewteen them.
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"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Yeah, I do seem to recall Bill Brant(Gourmet Rodent) having some aberrants. That would be interesting to see what the deal is there on them.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Yeah, I do seem to recall Bill Brant(Gourmet Rodent) having some aberrants. That would be interesting to see what the deal is there on them.

I saw the first ones from Bill brant before Amazon made a deal with him to sell the offspring. They had a LOT more and produce huge quantities of the Mosaics. I think they came before Sean ballinger found his stock and they are definety different but allelic with the Ballinger stuff.

Its too bad because Brant did not know what he had and sold them real cheap. That is why these new morphs are so affordable.

Brant stock breeding pic

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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

This is the ballinger line:

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www.Bluerosy.com

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Very interesting!,....thanks for posting those pics of each.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Those are some rockin Florida mosaics!

Scott

Killer mosaic Florida kings! That's what I heard about Sean and the mosaic Florida kings, I know now he is doing the EKRS now.

Scott