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This is the beginning of what I hope will be an awesome year! Here are a few pix I took yesterday while cleaning. More pix of paired up animals to come in the next month or so....

First up is a pair of WC Floridas (male is the lighter one on the left)

Next is another pair of WC Floridas (male is the lighter one on the top right)

WS poss het Ghost male with a Hypo het WS girl

Nice Orangey Red Hypo male from Kevin Maxwell with a Mosaic girl

123 Triple Het Pair (Male is the more yellow one on the bottom)

The last pair for now: Some Blaze goini (male is the striped one)

Thanks for looking! More coming soon!

The male in the first picture is very curious looking. Does not look like a Lake Okeechobee king, which is where 99% of wild caught kings in the pet trade come from. Do you have any further info as far as locality?

I caught him myself two years ago under a board along with the female in the picture below. It's interesting to me how he varies from the others around that region. I have another that is in cooling that is also a male that looks a lot like him. They seem to have narrower heads and more flecking than the traditional find. All were found south of the big Florida lake.

Now that I think of it, I found a female just like that (maybe slightly darker) just outside Pahokee. It seems like that color/pattern phase occasionally shows up around there. It actually reminds me of the kings from around Tampa.

Like this Female:

Tampa animal

That's a sweet one! The only two that I found like that were males and it seems like out of the ones that I found, as well as others that I have gotten some WCs from, the females were the darker ones and the males the more narrow-headed and lighter ones. Do you still have that female?

Yep I still have her. I just took the picture a few minutes ago.

I have another male, and 2 other females from the same spot ready to breed this year, so I should be producing a bunch from that line.

They are pretty yellow by comparison to most normal Florida kings:

They are awesome! They look like two het hybinos that I have, almost like a sulfur, post pics of the babies when you get some!

Its not surprising they somewhat resemble sulfurs. They were collected in the same spots.

It'll be a while, but I'll definitely post pics come hatching season!

I can certainly see why,....great stuff!

good luck with the breedings too

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

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Nice good luck this year!

I love the second pair (the darker ones), and that hypo from Kevin.

Good luck.

Thanks! That dark pair had these babies last year, I was really happy with them: (some are in shed)

And some new OBX from Charles Shanklin