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Some one did this post on the kingsnake forum about a months ago. Show us 2010 project and what your most excited about for this year.

Jason

Alas, nobody old enough yet. I looked at pics of pits with their clutches and was astounded at the size of the eggs in relation to the snake. So it is going to be a quite a few years before I can do any breeding. When I do I plan to breed my female striped Pacific to my unrelated male striped Pacific, who is het for interesting things.

Are you going to do any breeding with your striped Pacifics this season? Hope so, those are awesome!

Pacifics seem to be very underated but I dig them.

Yeah we are just working with a pair of Strips that Double het for Anery and Albino.
I use to have a nice breeding group that consisted of
1.0 Striped Snow
0.1 Striped Anery
2.2 Striped Albino
1.1 Striped Double hets
0.2 WC Blotched
Sent them out on breeder loan and never seen or heard the guy or snakes again.

Jason

That's terrible about that guy ripping you off!
Glad to hear you are going to do a breeding this year, though.

One odd thing I have noticed with my three stripers; their scales feel smooth and silky, almost like a king snake, whereas the two blotched babies same age (unrelated to the stripers) have more keeled feeling scales, a rougher texture, like other blotched Pacifics I have.

My most desired breeding plan:
Zola, female Pacific striped gopher:

to Zigzag, male Pacific striped unrelated:

To get this much coveted result:

Female is from Jason Nelson.
Male is from New Age Reptiles. He is full of pinks is why he looks thick. They both are bigger now, these are old pics. I was going to take new pics today but forgot and fed them first, and don't want to bother them now.
Pic of four babies is Jason Nelson's beauties.
Sorry, I know these babies wont be ready for a few years but all I have now incubating are fence lizards , crickets, and mice breeding. Having to wait is HARD! LOL!

jason, i'm breeding an enormous crumbley red female to a crumbley x stillwater male in a couple months. trying to enhance the black borders that the male possesses for a high contrast litter. here's a pic of the female back in 06. she is now fully 8'! the male is an 08 but has the big gene as well. i think he can handle her.......

Gorgeous Bull...got any pics of her now with person for size comparison? Don't see many real 8 footers.

i tried to post a pic of her yesterday but the pic has to be re-sized & i don't know how to do that. i'm going to take another pic w/ a different camera asap. in the meantime, the cage shown below is 8' long inside. it was originally for my yt's but she now resides there & can touch both ends at the same time. never was power fed, she was just able to eat rats at an early age & took off. the crumbley line apparently has the big gene because i have outcrosses that are also bigger than normal.

Hey Dan,

I would also love to see a pic of her. I urge you to open an account at photobucket.com. You can upload images then from your computer and it's super simple. Each image you upload comes with a link attached to it that you can simply copy and paste into a forum message, and all the codes are included so the image pops up in the forum. You can put text between the photos and everything...very simple. If you have any issues let me know.
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- Matt

1.0 Black Milk '04
1.0 Andean Milk '06
0.1 Eastern King '97
0.1 Bullsnake '09

took your advice but though photobucket advertises itself as a free site, i was asked as to how i was going to pay upon completing the registration. huh??? anyway, rejected on principle. if you send me an email then i can shoot you a pic of me holding her when she was roughly 30 months old & already almost 7'. feel free to post that one if you like. in the mean time, i'll get a fresh pic of her that i can use & post here. thanks matt!

Try TinyPic. It is free and although I have a free account at Photobucket I like TinyPic as it is simpler.

Hey Dan

I was shocked to hear that it wasn't free, and so I made another account and I see where they try to trick you into getting a "PRO" account... and it says NEXT and then I think they tried to upgrade you to that pro account. Underneath "next" there is the link you would want to use, titled "no thanks" and then you are done... free account! Sorry about that.
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- Matt

1.0 Black Milk '04
1.0 Andean Milk '06
0.1 Eastern King '97
0.1 Bullsnake '09

Here's a pic of Dan's big female from back in '08 when she was 30 months old. Big girl and she's put on over a foot more since then I hear.

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- Matt

1.0 Black Milk '04
1.0 Andean Milk '06
0.1 Eastern King '97
0.1 Bullsnake '09

Download Picasa 3 its freeware that allows you to resize your pics and touch them up, so you can post them on here. Its really easy to use!

HI Dan

Wow those are large snakes. Yeah that sounds interesting and cant wait to see the results, plus pics of giant adults.

jason

Picked up some adult black pines during brumation, can't wait to see the babies from the pair. I think I'm going to give my northerns the year off but they have laid eggs before without a male so who knows.

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Nick Puder
www.rnpreptiles.com

that's a nice one, Nick, I've got a few years of growth yet to enjoy!
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Todd Hughes

Nice! Were you able to get any locale on those? My little '09 Mobile Co. probably won't get real "clean" but that's fine...I'm kind of liking that. Seems to me that the pattern on young lodingi may well serve to look like a cottonmouth. She's also really whippy so far but I'm working on it. Great feeder at least!

As for having a pure black snake...got a black milk and it don't get more black than that

No locality on this pair, I'll pick up some nice locality ones eventually. Working on getting that nice pair of locality southerns first....
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Nick Puder
www.rnpreptiles.com

HI Nick

Great looking Pine! I always wanted to get some. Its hard to find nice ones like yours.

Jason

Looks like a beauty! Hope your babies turn out real dark.

What a fulfilling sight of all those babies hatching! I am just amazed at how big snake eggs are; good reason to not be impatient for our girls to grow up.

Wow, those are superdark from the get-go!
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Todd Hughes

Actually it is just the way the photo turned out, even with a flash. They have a fair amount of light markings(no real white, except on the chin), but they darken up nicely as they mature.

Russ P

Black Pines
Northern Pines
Lined Pines
La Pines
Black Milks
Texas Indigos
Stillwater Hypo Bulls
Redfoot Torts
Cheapeake Bay Retriever
Parrotlet

Nick, those Black Pines are beauties. I've always liked those.

reako45

I've got a a nice pair of bulls that I'm pretty excited about. The male is hypo het for axanthic, patternless and whiteside breeding a female patternless het for axanthic, hypo, and whiteside. Ought to be a crazy mix of babies in this clutch for sure!
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Jeremy Pierce
Shade Tree Exotics
shade-tree-exotics@att.net

I plan on breeding my Kansas yellow female with my nice looking Texas faded pattern male as well as my N. pines. The bull breeding has produced some nice offspring in the past.

Hope too repeat this again.......

........But hit on even better odds with the snows!!

GOOD LUCK to Everyone for the coming season.

AL U.K.

Stillwater hypos ( 1.2 trio)
Albino white sided X stillwater hypo
Sonoran gophers (1.2 trio)
A project I will keep everybody updated on that involves red & white. (No secrets, just don't want to jinx this project I have been working on).LOL

I'm finally breeding this wild caught patternless annectans back to his daughters to prove out the trait. He'll also be bred to a hypo Klumper and a snow.

I'll also be breeding double het patternless albino annectans.

"Sancho" Patternless annectans founder

One of his daughters when she was young:

I should also get the usual two clutches from my lineaticollis group:

Sancho is awesome! Wild caught to boot! Incredible! From what I understand, with annectens the striped gene is recessive. Hope it shows up in his next offspring.

I appreciate the compliment.

To me, Sancho looks much different from any of the striped annectans out there, which is why I'm calling him "patternless".

I do not believe it's the same gene. I suppose eventually I should breed him to a striped to find out, but for now, I am keeping my line pure...

I agree, he does look more like a patternless than a striped. Please keep me informed as to how your breeding program with him works out.