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My 08 Pacifics, Zumbida on the Glad container and Lorenzo in the aspen. I have been very busy with my pyros breeding this spring, but have just noticed this pair of pituophis may have also done the deed. Zumbida has been a regular eating machine this spring. Her mate ate well until early March. They were brumated this last winter. I had not planned on breeding them, but maybe they decided otherwise? I have not seen any locks. I will try feeling the female for eggs today.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Not saying she is not gravid, but it is early for Pacifics still. I have yet to even introduce my pair. Can you feel follicles in her?
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Rick Staub

I will feel for follicles in a few days. I forgot I had fed her the day I made this thread and don't want to make her regurge. When do Pacifics generally start breeding? I have another Pacific female who is enormous (well over 5 feet) who I would like to pair up with my male.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Mine typically breed in May well after all my mountain kings. I find it difficult sometimes to manually palpate gopher snakes for follicles as their bodies are less pliable and the larger follicles often push together more so are not as defined. Not impossible just that I usually have to repeat it several times to be sure.
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Rick Staub

I tried feeling for follicles but could not feel anything. If they don't breed until May that is great; I will have more time to devote to them as the pyros are wrapping thing up now, both females gravid. I am reluctant to squeeze her very hard. I let her slide through my fingers with gentle pressure on her belly, more like letting her weight flow across my finger tips.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Just a little bit
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I think she is a big fatty! LOL! This spring she has been a real eating machine. By May (Rick Staub says that is when his Pacifics mate) she should be in prime shape to mate.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Can you tell me why they have the color of pacific gopher snakes but the high-blotch and busy pattern of san diegos?!?!?

Best looking pacifics I've ever seen, there must be annectans in the woodpile.....
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6.7 pituophis c. annectans
1.1 senticolis t. intermedia
1.1 rhinechis scalaris
1.2 lampropeltis m. thayeri
2.1 pantherophis g. guttatus
1.1 lampropeltis t. campbelli

1.1 turbo corns
1.1 jungle corns
1.1 thayeri hybrids (het albino)

Can you tell me why they have the color of pacific gopher snakes but the high-blotch and busy pattern of san diegos?!?!?

Best looking pacifics I've ever seen, there must be annectans in the woodpile.....

This is a wild caught Pacific I rescued from a cat and released at my friend's gopher infested place, which is fenced with no cats, in Calaveras.

This is my 08 female Pacific Gonzo, which I purchased from a breeder in Lodi.

Another earlier photo of Lorenzo and Zumbida, the ones with the unique pattern. I got them from Victory Reptiles LLC in 2008. The owner of Victory Reptiles was selling them for a friend who was the actual breeder. So I don't know for sure what their lineage actually is, but I love them and hope to have them make some babies for me in the future.

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

Can you tell me why they have the color of pacific gopher snakes but the high-blotch and busy pattern of san diegos?!?!?

Pacifics near the SF Bay Area tend to have some high blotch counts. Here is an albino I found near Richmond. Others I found near her had even more blotches.

And one found near Fairfield

The stripers can similarly be variable in pattern. Here is a nice striped het amel.

Annectans tend to have more cream and yellow in them. I certainly would not try to differentiate them from Pacifics just based on number of blotches.
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Rick Staub