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Hi. I must say I've never really liked the look of hondurans, really just because I haven't yet seen one that was without black tipping (who wasn't hypo or albino of course).

I'd like to get my hands on some tangerine hondurans, if only I could be sure they would stay clear of the tipping into adulthood.

Has anyone made any significant progress reducing the black tipping on them?

If so, I'd love to see pictures, especially if they are adults.

I dont like them either. This guy is 5 years old and just keeps putting out the same ugly black tipped offspring. What can you do, you know? I'm thinking about selling them all and getting into chia pets. Later, Randy Whittington

This is another hideous black tipper. She is a 4 year old het for hypo like the male above. Their both headed out the door though. Chia pets here, I come. Later, Randy W. (AKA-Black Tip)

Here's a baby from another female last year before she went to total crap and I threw her out in the can. You can see the dreaded tipping setting in already cant you. Oh hell I give up. Later, Black Tip

LOL

Clubbing the troll???

I didn't realize that I would be considered a troll.

Now I know how others feel when they get attacked after asking a perfectly good question, though it may be different than the majority of questions/posts on here.

So what was it? The comment where I said I don't like the look of hondurans? I know the majority of you are honduran owners and probably took offense to that, but that was not my intention. I just don't like the black tipping.

I'm assuming that Randy's posts were meant to be sarcastic (if not I'm sorry), but those animals have more black tipping than I am looking for (though they are better than most I've seen), so if they are considered to be some of the best of the best then I guess I never will own a honduran.

I guess it's funny, because I love black milk snakes and they wouldn't be the way they are unless they had black tipping, but I don't like it on hondurans.

I guess it's safe to say that you don't like Andeans?
MA

Nope. I don't care for them. They are nice and big, which is a trait I like in snakes, but not the black tipping. Which is why I like the black milksnakes. They are big too but at least get to be a solid black instead of somewhere in between.

You have a lot of work to do if you want to get a nice clean honduran like this one in my collection. I've looked closely and I can't make out any black tipping at all on him.

(Actually, I've seen gaigeae yearlings that weren't this dark)
I kinda like him though. I'm going to start the latest craze...hypermelanistic hondurans. All those neon colored morphs will be a thing of the past
Chris

I'm pretty sure that is

(Lampropeltis triangulum ugly-mugly-us)

LOL, he is SO ugly. You can send him to me, and I will be happy to send you several Chia pets.

Am I really the only one here who can’t identify that object in the cage that looks like a hunk of bread? Or maybe it's half of a cheese Danish. More to the point, what’s it doing there?

I’m new here, never posted in this forum. So maybe everyone else is already privy to the hunk of bread thing, but could someone clue me in? By the way, I do have a pair of Hondurans, but no way am I letting anyone know my feelings on the black tipping issue. At least until someone I.D.’s the bread-like object.

Thanks,
Joan

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Hey, I knew it was a rock. Well, I suspected it might be a rock.

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I'll be back there in one of my snake rooms trying to bite into one of those rocks next time I have a couple of beers. Randy W.