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John, you got me wanting to use the camera tonight after seeing all those nice mexicana. Here's some I hatched last year. the last 3 are from the same clutch.







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You guys are really turning my opinion on some of these aberrant animals. Very nice sir!
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Gerard

"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."

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GONE FISHING!!!

Thanks! Most of my collection is based on some sort of odd pattern. My favorite is in tricolors, even though I have seen some mosaic cal kings and eastern kings that just rock.
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Those albinos are AWESOME!
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Genesis 1:1

Billy, thanks they were hard to capture their color on that white background. I need to put them on a different background and take some shots. It is one of those snakes that is not around a lot anymore. I haven't seen any ruthveni in the classifieds in a while. I am glad to be working with them.
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So, has there been a striped albino yet?
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Gerard

"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."

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GONE FISHING!!!

There has been striped albinos produced. I believe by the person Aaron and Shannon had sent snakes to in Utah. I have not seen a amel super stripe though, I also believe that has not been produced yet. I am working on it though. My first chore is to produce some super stripes with consistency. May be 2 or 3 generations down the road. John has a good shot at making some too.
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>>There has been striped albinos produced. I believe by the person Aaron and Shannon had sent snakes to in Utah. I have not seen a amel super stripe though, I also believe that has not been produced yet. I am working on it though. My first chore is to produce some super stripes with consistency. May be 2 or 3 generations down the road. John has a good shot at making some too.
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Here's a couple.....

And the first one..

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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

John is that first albino stripe at breedable age? Should be.
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>>John is that first albino stripe at breedable age? Should be.
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It was hatched in 2006.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Has there been any luck producing more striped albinos from that specimen?
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>>Has there been any luck producing more striped albinos from that specimen?
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I don't e en know if the breeder raised it to an adult or bred it....
He produced that clutch from some of JMs animals....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

I see, seems like they went by the wayside years ago and everyone stopped working with them except for a few.
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>>I see, seems like they went by the wayside years ago and everyone stopped working with them except for a few.
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Yep.... Few enough to count them without even taking off one shoe.....lol
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

All killer....
I like the yellow on that last amel.
I wonder if there is a marker that'll let us know if an amel neonate will turn into a yellow amel adult.....

I think a super striped yellow amel with Tapalpa red would be the holy grail ruthveni morph.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

"All killer....
I like the yellow on that last amel.
I wonder if there is a marker that'll let us know if an amel neonate will turn into a yellow amel adult....."

Thanks John. I have been wondering the same thing myself. I am planning on holding back most if not all my amels until they start to develop the yellow.

"I think a super striped yellow amel with Tapalpa red would be the holy grail ruthveni morph....."

That would be a killer animal! Lots of work until that happens though. First let's start producing supers on a regular basis, then we need to produce the first amel super.
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Cool pics Jimmy! I like the white background look, and that striped one is almost 100%. Good luck with those!
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Thanks Jorge, the albino didn't take to well with the white background though. I will have to try something different to capture better color for them. That striped female will be ready hopefully in 2014. She is possible het amel too. She will be bred back to her striped dad. Hoping to produce a super or even an amel super with her and her dad. Neat project for sure.
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Awesome stuff Jimmy!

talk about aberrant!!!..

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

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"some are just born to troll and roll"

Yea right, thanks this has been an exciting project because you just don't know what will hatch. I like the unknown.LOL
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I hear ya there man!. A safe bet would be some killer surprises would definitely be hatching from those clutches..LOL!

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

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"some are just born to troll and roll"

Thanks for the pics, very nice ruthvenis...i would take no 4 and 5 home, like the contrast on them!

yours

Michael

Thanks for the kind words man! I like those better than the amelanistics too. My favorite amel is a high yellow, whether it be by ruthveni or nelsoni. I will be growing up all my amels and picking the ones that develop the best yellows. Hopefully I can put it into the striped line like John said. A nice striped amel tricolor with yellow. That would rock!
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Here's a nice cherry head that was from the same clutch. He didn't want to stay still long enough for a photo last night so this is an old pic.

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Forget the amels..breed the cherries!

No, everyone has his/her own taste..so do what YOU like most...and we have time until we have to go..use it!

thanks for the pic!and post your knobs for me please!

Oh I will breed the cherries too. They are even better when they are amel because the black doesn't hide as much read. Check out this post I did a while back. They are all head shots but here is another one. This one I produced in 2010.

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1968938,1968938

Here's a grayband for your wife too, well a couple anyway.


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