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I usually put a specific male ghost het amel with a female ghost het amel but this season i changed it up a little and put an anery het hypo het amel with the female ghost.
The male anery is the one I had mentioned below that fathered a nice little black anery. I usually pair him with another anery het hypo het amel.
Well, the ghost laid thirteen eggs but for some reason they all went bad within the first two weeks, except two. One of these also ended up going bad so that left one....well that one hatched and turned out to be a stripe ghost. I hatched the male anery, here, from a ghost to snow pairing and have bred both the anery and snow to several other snakes in my collection. With no hint of stripe. I had absolutely no idea either were het for stripe.
The stripe ghost hatchling, unfortunately, seems to be kind of week and it will be touch and go to see if it makes it.
BUT, once again I get a surprise stripe and learn of hidden hets in two more of my snakes.
kind of cool..two complete surprise stripes, one slight surprise stripe and a set of twins...to go along with a few things I was expecting to get...and actually did...lol
Not nearly as fascinating as what Amy's getting but I'm enjoying the season.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes...No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
Draybars Snakes

Jimmy, keep him moist and warm and hopefully he'll do fine. He looks a little dry and wrinkly.

That's a pretty neat surprise, too. Sorry about all the other eggs. Is it you that produces striped cremesicles?

I had a couple of bad clutches, too. My amel motley het caramel x amel motley het caramel produced 5 eggs and about 10 slugs. Only one of those 5 eggs is still any good. And my RO to the above male produced about 10 slugs and 1 good egg that isn't looking too good. The male is just turning two, so I think he used himself up on my butter motley and candycane. They had good clutches. Somehow I wound up with too many amel females. I thought the candycane was a male and wanted to put him on the RO. Fooled me! He didn't want anything to do with those females I kept putting in there. LOL! Didn't know about the lavender being het amel or I would have put him with more females.
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Amy Claiborne

Don't let them take your wasted time. J.T.

>>Jimmy, keep him moist and warm and hopefully he'll do fine. He looks a little dry and wrinkly.
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>>That's a pretty neat surprise, too. Sorry about all the other eggs. Is it you that produces striped cremesicles?
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>>I had a couple of bad clutches, too. My amel motley het caramel x amel motley het caramel produced 5 eggs and about 10 slugs. Only one of those 5 eggs is still any good. And my RO to the above male produced about 10 slugs and 1 good egg that isn't looking too good. The male is just turning two, so I think he used himself up on my butter motley and candycane. They had good clutches. Somehow I wound up with too many amel females. I thought the candycane was a male and wanted to put him on the RO. Fooled me! He didn't want anything to do with those females I kept putting in there. LOL! Didn't know about the lavender being het amel or I would have put him with more females.
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>>Amy Claiborne
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>>Don't let them take your wasted time. J.T.

you'll know what to do with the lavender next season!
yeah my favorites were my stripe creamsicles. Produced them for five or six years then out of the blue, my stripe cream female died a couple of weeks after mating. She ate one meal the weekend she mated. She refused to eat the next time I offered her food, which didn't bother me too much but then she refused again after that and two days later she was dead.
There was blood in the breeding box but not more then I had seen before so I didn't think it was a problem but there may have been more of a problem then I realized???

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Corn snakes and rat snakes...No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
Draybars Snakes

That's too bad about that female. Hope you have some baby females?

Last year, I was looking at my orange candycane thinking how cool it would be to produce that in orange and white stripes, then you posted a striped creamsicle baby. I was blown away.
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Amy Claiborne

Don't let them take your wasted time. J.T.