So, the anacondas are hands down the best mutation I have ever worked with. They produce some of the most wicked patterned snakes ever to hit the market!! Anyway, I just produced a pretty cool litter that has continued to make me scratch my head. I would like to here everyone's opinion on each of the 3 conda siblings from the clutch. The clutch was incubated at a constant 82 deg. and the first pips started on day 53.
I decided to go for a late litter this year with this yellow female.
I bred her to this '08 Conda.
He produces some nice looking condas, but these two animals from the yellow girls sister are about as nice as he had previously produced.
This latest clutch produced some very nice looking normals, but nothing aberrant, or different to make me wonder about a possible temperature fluctuation during incubation.
So, the first conda to hatch out about made me fall over when I saw it. I would say she is about 95% patternless. There are some ever so faint hints of where the pattern should have been, but the only real pattern are the few small random placed marks and the lateral stripe near the belly.
The next conda to hatch was this very reduced animal. He looks like he really wanted to follow in his sisters footsteps, but just couldn't quite shake off all the dorsal pattern.
And finally,,, this thing hatched out. I don't even know what to think of this one. Is it a conda, or what?? It has a cool burnt orange background color with cool copper colored dorsal blotches. The lateral blotches are very dark and bold and the lateral striping near the belly is dashed in some spots and completely missing in others, giving it a whitewall look. It also has a completely patternless tail.
And this is the part that I really thought was different about this one. The belly is just a reduced, uneven black stripe. I thought the solid, even black belly with nice white borders were one of the only typical markers of the anaconda trait. What is it??
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Ultimate Hognose
