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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Wow John that sure is busy! Now I will keep my fingers crossed for you for fertile eggs!!! Now comes the wait and sleepless nights waiting and checking!
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Jimmy Tintle

Forgot one thing, that melanistic thayeri is that breeding with a "het" female or from a melanistic line? Oh and great looking ruthies! Can't wait to see babies!
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Jimmy Tintle

>>Forgot one thing, that melanistic thayeri is that breeding with a "het" female or from a melanistic line? Oh and great looking ruthies! Can't wait to see babies!

Yes the Melanistic thayeri male has been bred to the melanistic female a few times so I threw in the het female to see if I can get some melanistics out of her as well......
She has also been with another melanistic male.......

The het female has a melanistic parent and has a solid black ventral......And if you look at her closely she has a lot of melanin going on.....I don't know if we can really call them hets but a few folks over the pond have told me that the gene is recessive......So, I will call them hets for now.....LOL

I can't wait to see fertile eggs then the sleepless nights will come when they are hatching.....LOL

Thanks Jimmy.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Yea, I read the whole 2 part series on the whole Melanistic Thayeri here on KS. Pretty interesting on those genetics, kinda like the ruthies and the stripe gene. Is it or isn't, co-dom simple recessive, or some other plain out luck.

My reduced black female bred with the melanistic male, seems to have atleast 10 eggs. That's what I counted so far....should know in about 3 weeks....
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Jimmy Tintle

Nice pics. I couldn't help but notice the two in the second pic from the top look guilty about something.

>>Nice pics. I couldn't help but notice the two in the second pic from the top look guilty about something.

I agree....It's like I caught them doing something they shouldn't be doing......

Thanks Micah....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Hahaha! Bad little snakes. THey need to know there's consequences for their actions.

>>Hahaha! Bad little snakes. THey need to know there's consequences for their actions.
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Check out the OLD MAN in the third picture......He is blind in both eyes (cataracts) and was collected by Lloyd Lemke in 1983....He's got to be around 30 years old and still going at it.......He is not mine...Shannon Brown is his owner.....It would be cool to get some more offspring from him before he decided to head to snake heaven.......I just hope he isn't shootin dust.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Holy cow!!! Talk about vitality. Even if he is shooting blanks, I'm still impressed. So if he's 30, what is that in snake years?

>>Holy cow!!! Talk about vitality. Even if he is shooting blanks, I'm still impressed. So if he's 30, what is that in snake years?

I don't know how many years that is in "snake years" but I think any colubrid can live for 20 years if kept correctly.......I have about 8 or so kingsnakes over here that are in their teens......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Are you the one who posted a picture of the $800 incubator which you got at that great price considering it was worth far more?
If so, you are going to need it this year! Please post the photo of it again so I can admire it further.

Your collection is simply incredible. You have done a superb job rebuilding your collection over the last few years.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

>>Are you the one who posted a picture of the $800 incubator which you got at that great price considering it was worth far more?
>>If so, you are going to need it this year! Please post the photo of it again so I can admire it further.
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>>Your collection is simply incredible. You have done a superb job rebuilding your collection over the last few years.

Thanks Bob...and yes it was I that got a killer deal on that big incubator.....Thanks for reposting the pic and not making me find the pics again....LOL........As for my collection I am only a few snakes away from my "dream collection" but there are others I will soon want.....Latin American Triangulum are looking real nice right now....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

That incubator is the Arnold Schwarzenegger of incubators, I tell you what! Imagine it full of hatching babies; you will be up all night for weeks feeding babies...
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

>>That incubator is the Arnold Schwarzenegger of incubators, I tell you what! Imagine it full of hatching babies; you will be up all night for weeks feeding babies...

LMAO!.......Welcome to my world......And all those babies aren't a bunch of getula that usually take f/t rodents readily.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

The Mex Mex in picture 11 are gorgeous John! Not that the others aren't nice, but those are my favorites!
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Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

>>The Mex Mex in picture 11 are gorgeous John! Not that the others aren't nice, but those are my favorites!

Thanks Jorge....that is a Male from the Granite line and a pretty nice granite female....both produced in 2009 by Don Shores..........This is their first time breeding...prior to their second birthday........
I hope to get some fertile eggs....She is swelling up already.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...