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I put these two together today, and there was no time wasted getting down to "business"!

It's a hypo lavender male x hypo/het lavender/poss. het anery. female.

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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Nice. Should be some little hypo lavendar's in the future. I'm up in N. Fla. and mine have been breeding for a couple weeks already.

--Dennis

Thanks!

Yes, a theoretical 50% hypo lavenders, and 50% hypo/het lavenders.

Good luck with your breedings as well!

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

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That's a nice pair as well, Dennis! is that a Bloodred or a striped male?
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Jorge Sierra

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Jorge, I bought him as a motley / vanishing stripe. Here's another pic that shows his pattern a bit better. He is perhaps the gentlest snake I ever owned.

The female is second generation from local wild caught. I call her one of my "Birley Rd. corns."

--Dennis

Very nice, and great pic too!
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Jorge Sierra

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Should be some very nice babies there Doug! I love that Hypo by the way.
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Jorge Sierra

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Thanks Jorge!

Yeah, me too man!. When you look at her extremely reduced, milky translucent border's, there is no question at all as to her being a nice hypo "A" example.

She just bred again with him today too!

This time, he used the opposite side hemipenis, which I fully exxpected to see him do. As I think you already know from the other forum, recently my friend has taken note of many of his different types of snakes doing alternating-side copulations, so in the past couple years, I have been noticing this same behavior too when different males were used in multiple breedings.

This is pretty interesting stuff, as it makes a lot of good sense that nature would have them do this to allow more sperm reserves to build-up in the opposite, previously used gonad while the other one is being used.

On the 9th, he used the left side.....

Today he used the right side as expected....

I will probably introduce them again tomorrow, and see if he uses the left side again...

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

my website -Serpentine Specialties

That is interesting Doug. I always wondered if they were lefty or righty by nature, but using both makes more sense.
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Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Yeah, if you figure that during the breeding season in the wild, a male snake could very easily happen upon another female to breed with right after breeding the previous female. So it is very logical that he would have live "ammunition" for breeding the next one with his opposite side in order for her to be successfully fertilized as well..LOL!

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

my website -Serpentine Specialties