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Tequila Sunrise line :*)

Very nice! I like the hues of pink and paech, thanks for the pics.
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I didn't know anerys could be pink. Very nice.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) cornsnakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase, 2008 (and 14 eggs)

Are these not basically the same thing as these "Coral ghosts"?, which are anery x strawberry?. This strawberry gene is allelic with hypomelanism, which would be indicative of them actually being ghosts. Correct me if I am wrong here.

Very nice snake for sure!

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Doug I sure hope they are . This guy, and his 5 siblings and half siblings are either het or homozygous for hypo. The hypo in this line has never been crossed to a known strawberry for proof. I did cross an unrelated hypo. male to one of my TS anery A het hypo and amel females this year...

I see. Thanks for the info on those. They sure do have extremely strong pink coloration, so whatever they prove to be, they are definitely awesome!..

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

Just in case you didn't already see this, here is some interesting specific history on the "Tequila Sunrise" line. There seems to be "ultramel" lineage traced back to this line, and very likely the "strawberry" hypo gene as well, but nothing absolutely conclusive on this as the strawberry gene has been extremely tough(if not virtually impossible) to isolate in many of the cornsnake morphs in the hobby today.

~Doug

below is a direct quote from VMS Herps.......

Tequila Sunrise Project Cornsnakes (Pantherophis [Elaphe] g. guttata)

Many many years ago, we acquired a very unusual looking corn from a Denver area pet shop. This animal was nick-named the Tequila Sunrise corn, as sort of an inside joke following my inability to push the margarita pitcher to the far side of the table the night before. But that's another story.

We immediately set about trying to produce more corns with the unique look, as well as determine what was causing it. But this proved more difficult than one would think. Obviously, part of the look was being caused by a hypo-like mutation, but at the time the only known mutation of that sort was regular old Hypomelanism. Since that time, other mutations have been identified that can cause a hypoish appearance, including Lava, Sunkissed, and Ultra, plus different alleles at the original hypo locus have appeared, such as Strawberry and Christmas.

Over the years and generations, we've determined the original snake to have been an Ultramel Anery, heterozygous for Hypo, Motley, and Bloodred. But all of these failed to account for the entire look, especially the yellowing of the head and overall speckled look, so some as yet unidentified mutation or mutations is still at work here. To further muddy the waters, the original crossing to a Pink Pastel Ghost evidently added Strawberry, as bright pink snakes now frequently appear in the mix of F2 generations and beyond. All of this at a time before many of these mutations had even been identified. Thus sorting it out back in the days proved to be the devil's own as they say.

So after so many years of trying, and a thousand or more offspring produced, we still really don't know what these are genetically speaking. And I've grown weary of the entire project. So, as Clark Gable so eloquently put it "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn", they're just really cool looking snakes.
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

i have had to stop myself from buying a pair of those on several occasions.

Why was that?

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

i think i already have enough projects going at the moment.

plus, i've got over 70 eggs already and that's just first clutches.

i'm quickly learning it's really hard to talk oneself out of acquiring unique snakes like that, but right now i have a clear idea of what i want to produce over the next several years and i need to stay the course. lol.

Yeah, many people spread themselves too thin with certain projects. I see this happening to me right now, and I still have countless babies to look forward to dealing with in the near future, then knowing lots of these offspring have to be held-back to back-breed as well.....

arrrgh,....It's a vicious circle.......*sigh*

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

I bought my first trio back in 2004. Ultramel and Ultra was really being discussed and I had hopes that the snows Sean at VMS was selling were in fact Ultramel anery or even a hypo ultramel anery. Well, mine wasn't lol but he's a very unusual looking snow het hypo. I'd love to find a good strawberry animal to prove him against, just to know. The pink babies I have were from a TS ghost het ultra X 2 TS snows both het hypo, all three F2's from the original "Tequila Sunrise"

The Original Tequila Sunrise, an Ultramel anery A het motley, diffuse

older pic of my 04 male...It's impossible to get the colors right in a pic taken inside, but this ones close

A daughter, again inside pics just don't do 'em justice...