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HI, guys slow here
lets see some of your favorite pics.

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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

Looks like that guy 's not to happy. lol
nice pic .

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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

Just hatching this week. This is the first 5 of 13.

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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) cornsnakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase, 2008
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 200?

This has to be my favorite pic from last year. This was her first shed and her first meal.

She is almost a year old now, and hasn't slowed down a bit.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) cornsnakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase, 2008
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 200?

Congratulations,thank you for sharing.

Not my snake,...but since there seems to be a Lystrophis theme, here's my favorite shot of one...

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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

love the bi -color ones,too

lol

This bizarre mutant is a wild-caught corn captured just outside of Everglades National Park as a tiny hatchling late last year. I am EXTREMELY hopeful to prove this interesting trait to be heritable in the near future.

~Doug

An "extreme" hypomelanistic Honduran milksnake I produced in 2009.

A very "green" female floridana I produced in 2009.

A very golden/bronze floridana I produced in 2009. He and the above green female just had a small clutch that should be hatching fairly soon!

An EXTREMELY rare Blanchard's milksnake. His aberrant patternless father was captured just outside of Quintana Roo, Mexico on a small chicken ranch.

Here is the sire to the above blanchardi youngster.

A known hybino(hypo x amelanism) that is also 100% het for anerythrism.

The HUGE male "high-yellow" Florida kingsnake that is the sire to the above floridana. This guy is only a 2007 animal and already over 67 inches and just over 3.75 lbs.

a little 2010 female amel Nelson's milksnake that is also a gene carrier to a very newly-discovered t-plus gene (tyrosinase positive).

Here is the bizarre t-plus sire to the above nelsoni (owned by Shannon Brown). This gene was discovered by complete accident from a normal clutch hatched by Christos Skliris of France in 2005.

A newly discovered extreme hypo? trait just discovered from an intergrade "greenish" ratsnake population from a wild-caught male specimen in a huge swamp area in northeastern S. Carolina. The original morph male was bred to two normal locality-specific females captured less than 150 yards from the morph male in 2008 and then bred to each other that proved the mutation to be a simple recessive trait. He "looks" amelanistic, but is not. The phenotypes and eyes are variable within the few clutches that were produced thus far, and the original morph male had dark eyes!

Here is a normal wild-type locality-specific "greenish" rat intergrade female sibling to the above mutant.

Here are the original locality-specific morph and normal parents for comparison!!

thanks for looking!
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

mike

pretty cool
S.B.

>>An EXTREMELY rare Blanchard's milksnake. His aberrant patternless father was captured just outside of Quintana Roo, Mexico on a small chicken ranch.

Actually, blanchardi are quite a common snake within their range. They are rare in captivity and I'm always suspicious many of the lineages in captivity came back secretely in luggage from cancun trips.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Yes, I am very aware of the blanchardi being pretty common in their native habitat on the Yucatan peninsula, just as a hondurensis or polyzona would be in their natural habitat, but certainly not in any collections in the US or Europe either that anyone I know is aware of at all. That was really the point I was trying to make. I only know of this ONE single bloodline and a couple blanchardi in a couple zoos, Nashville Zoo being one of them. The original female of my bloodline was acquired from the Moscow Zoo in Russia, but passed away some years ago.

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

When you say.... I'm always suspicious many of the lineages in captivity came back secretely in luggage from cancun trips"

"many of the lineages"???

The real question would be how many different lineages of blanchardi are you aware of in this entire country?

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com