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I find myself spending most of my free time cleaning cages. This could mean that I am way to anal or it could be that I have way to many snakes… I don’t think you could have to many snakes ☺ So I had to skip a cage today because I saw my third pairing of the season, which is still very earlier!

In past years I have produced BRB’s and never saw them locked up like this so I feel very lucky this year!! This is Skittles and Twilight. Twilight is my eclipsed phased animal (I believe this is a polygenic trait with recessive character). Skittles is one off her offspring several years ago.

The story goes; I bought Twilight at an expo about 5 years ago from a vendor at a cheap price. She was already fully-grown and I breed her that year and got all normal looking off spring. Skittles was a hold back male from that first breeding. I skipped the next year because she looked a little thinner than I’d like to see before breeding. Skittles grew very quickly and so the third year I put him back to twilight hoping the eclipsed character (which looked a lot different than the other eclipsed animals I’ve seen) would be recessive. I didn’t see any action out of them and was discouraged and thought that perhaps skittles was to young. I pulled him at and put in another male, Buddy (not the same one she first breed to). That year she produced animals ranging from completely normal to fully eclipsed and everything in between. Unfortunately, I couldn’t tell which male had produced them or if it was a combination of the two males. Being much more careful I put Twilight to Buddy and she they produced all normal off spring. This year Skittles is the only male that I’m trying (pictured), let see what happens this year!!! Next year Twilight will hopefully be going back to an eclipsed phased animal, Edward, that was from the Skittles/Buddy debacle.

Snake Porn

Skittles(Ski)

Twilight(Twi)

Twilight(Twi) and Xander(X)

And if you made it down the entire post, thank you for reading!

John

Skittles is gorgeous!
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~Cynthia

"And in the spring, I shed my skin and it blows away with the changing wind..."

Yeap, that was a dumb mistake. It's taking much longer than it should have. But such is life.

Most of us have done that at one time or another. In one of my early years I did them as a group and was super pleased I had babies from multiple females until I had the thought - which male was dad to which babies?

Now I'd rather the female not produce in a given year than not know who the dad was. Each female has one and only one male with her, sometimes with a sister-wife in a 1.2 group, sometimes just her and her guy in a 1.1 pair.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I hear you Dave, I was/am super aggravated that it is taking me long to see good result because of it. I wont make that mistake again

I was fortunate that my multi-male breeding was long ago and nothing special from it to complicate figuring out the something special. Since then I've always been one male only, even with my BCI although I have done groups where two sibling males were used with identical genetic.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats