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I would like to see everybody's favs.

I had to choose my favorite 3 animals. Crappy pics I took today but gives you an idea.

Blonde Great Basin Gopher (Phelan CA locality)

Envy Snow/T+ Snow San Diego Gopher. Bad pic and bad idea to take pics of a white snake on a white back ground. You can see the eyes pretty good. Growing like a weed

My non pit pick. Arizona Mountain King (Patagonia locality)

Jason

Jason,
Those are all mind blowing!!! My favorite pit pick of yours is that blonde GB. I can't stop looking at that thing! What a gem!!
Love that pyro as well!

I can't even wittle down 3 favorites in my collection. What I can do is pick my faves in each categories of pines, gophers, and bulls.

All of my northerns are my favorites in my collection. However, I will just post one pic:

2004 Ocean Co. Male-John Meltzer

Of course, my deppei deppei are my second faves of my pines:

2004 Deppei Deppei male-Vivid Reptiles

As far as bulls, my picks for my faves are:

2005 Sherman-Trumbower hypo bull-Suncoast Herps

Davis Mountain bullsnake-Vivid Reptiles

2011 Yellow bullsnake-Envy Reptiles-Jason Nelson

2010 Stillwater hypo bull-Johnnie Ballentine

My favorite gopher in my collection is my Applegate San Diego gopher, produced by the infamous, Scott Robinson

Non Pits faves:

Sanderson Co., blairs grayband-Damon Salceies

2010 locality Okeetee cornsnake-John Meltzer

I think that may be the absolute faves in my whole collection.

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Genesis 1:1

my two faves are the sherman trumbower hypo bull and the yellow bull from jason's lines.

i hope you will post more pics of that yellow line as it gets bigger, i find that bloodline to be very interesting.

daveb
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Thanks Dave!
Oh, you bet I will post pics of that Yellow bull! She is so awesome!
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Wow Billy some real stunners. Your Northerns are top notch and the Stillwater Hypo and Applegate are sweet.

Jason

Thanks man! When I look at them, I feel like screaming, " It's Clobbering time!! "
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Genesis 1:1

Wow, some great snakes here. My first choice is your deppei deppei and the Thurnbower (or how do you call it) hypo.

Thanks man!!
Much appreciated!
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Genesis 1:1

well, i love my bulls but these two are pretty special too. a cb unicolor cribo & a cb spilotes pullatus, both hatched here in 2006....

Jason and Discern have some very nice animals for sure!

My 2011 sunglow female

and her future mate, 2012 patternless bull.

Both are het for a bunch of other morphs and are unrelated, although I am mainly only interested in the patternless, and hope to have babies from them in 2014. I would have got hets for patternless but am too old to wait around! LOL!

Rozy, 2011 bull from my Kingsville red x Stillwater hypo pair. Very friendly except when hungry. Recently she tried to drag my hand under her hide to eat it!

Zunchara's 86 band baby 2012

Zunchara (old photo she is much bigger now.)

More of her 2012 babies; one on upper left looks just like her.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Thanks Bob!
My friend, you have some breathtaking specimens!!
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Genesis 1:1

Thanks, Discern!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Hi Bob

I that Sunglow is beautiful. I freaking love that busy black and white pyro. Very unusual and cool.

Jason

Jalous about your patternless sunglow

well the first two are way off topic here. i wanted both of these since I started working with reptiles.

Black head python....out of anything i have ever photographed, the black heads are the hardest to photo! they are super shiny and never stop moving!

Green tree python

as for on topic animals.....

Those black headed pythons are so unique!!! I love those!!

Your fave pits are awesome!!!
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Genesis 1:1

HI Lucas

The Black Head is way cool.

I that patternless bull is way cool with the dorsal strip. Never seen one like that.

Jason

Did not know you also keep Pythons Lucas.
Nice blackhead. I gave my old breeders away for free to someone last weekend.
The GTP is also nice, I also have 2 at home.
What concerns Pituophis, the bull in the middle picture is amazing.

thanks guys!

John, get them back and send them to me! Yes I keep a number of pythons. It is what actually got me started into snakes. I currently have:

1.1 Black heads both red phase from Tom Keogan
0.1 GTP
0.2 Normal balls
1.0 YB ball
1.0 75%IJ jag
0.1 Jungle

I also keep hogs.
1.0 green phase male
0.1 green phase female
0.1 normal

And I have one boa lol!
1.0 Dominican mountian boa

I really want to expand my black heads next season and maybe the carpets.

Thats nice Lucas. I've kept and bred BHP, GTP and carpets. Ball pythons are not my thing. Right now the only pythons I keep are GTP (Jayapura and Sorong), brongersmai (het albino) and SD retics (100% het snow). I focus on Pituophis and those few pythons. I'm a big python fan and I've kept and bred different species.

i love my pits! that is what i have most of. but i can't wait to breed the BHP! i am a little nervous about getting them started though. i have time though. my female is a 2011.

Don't push them Lucas. Thats something I see a lot in the US, you people grow your snakes to enormous size in very short time. Comparable with the amount of junkfood you people eat . I never force any of my snakes, let them grow at a normal speed and only use them for breeding when they have good size.

i never push my animals. in fact, it took my green tree and extra year to get to breeding size. i especially wouldn't push BHP due to how easy they can get over weight. I also feed the BHP's a variety of diets and never feed them anything larger than a small rat...same with my green tree. I don't think she has ever seen a medium.

I had to trim down my snakes a few weeks ago but the ones I kept were my Lousiana Pine pair and my 12 yo female Kansas yellow bull.. so I guess they are my favorite pits!

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BULLS: female- KS, KINGS: Pr. Black Eastern (L.g.nigra: F-Todd Co. KY, M- Dekalb Co. AL), Pr. Charlotte, NC Eastern Chains (M- Union Co. & F- Mecklenburg Co.), Pr. Speckled- Harris Co. TX, PINES: Pr. Louisiana (pure descendants of Terry Vandeventer stock), RATS: Pr Black- Henderson Co. NC, OTHER STUFF: Orchid plants 90(Cattleya spiecies and hybrids & Slippers mostly), 30 assorted tropical plants, 12 Freshwater Planted Aquariums with West African Dwarf & Riverine, Tanganikan, South American & Discus-Cichlids and 2 condo-porch gardens with Bonsai, Waterlilies, Roses and more.

didnt mean to post the Cal king pic.. she has not been in my collection for a while, but she was a nice one
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BULLS: female- KS, KINGS: Pr. Black Eastern (L.g.nigra: F-Todd Co. KY, M- Dekalb Co. AL), Pr. Charlotte, NC Eastern Chains (M- Union Co. & F- Mecklenburg Co.), Pr. Speckled- Harris Co. TX, PINES: Pr. Louisiana (pure descendants of Terry Vandeventer stock), RATS: Pr Black- Henderson Co. NC, OTHER STUFF: Orchid plants 90(Cattleya spiecies and hybrids & Slippers mostly), 30 assorted tropical plants, 12 Freshwater Planted Aquariums with West African Dwarf & Riverine, Tanganikan, South American & Discus-Cichlids and 2 condo-porch gardens with Bonsai, Waterlilies, Roses and more.

Yes, your Cal-king ruled!
Your remaining pits are awesome as well. Thanks for sharing!
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Genesis 1:1

no prob, I always like looking at ur animals, and you seem to be a pretty good guy... as Ive seen you over the years on here, and thats why your snakes look so good!
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BULLS: female- KS, KINGS: Pr. Black Eastern (L.g.nigra: F-Todd Co. KY, M- Dekalb Co. AL), Pr. Charlotte, NC Eastern Chains (M- Union Co. & F- Mecklenburg Co.), Pr. Speckled- Harris Co. TX, PINES: Pr. Louisiana (pure descendants of Terry Vandeventer stock), RATS: Pr Black- Henderson Co. NC, OTHER STUFF: Orchid plants 90(Cattleya spiecies and hybrids & Slippers mostly), 30 assorted tropical plants, 12 Freshwater Planted Aquariums with West African Dwarf & Riverine, Tanganikan, South American & Discus-Cichlids and 2 condo-porch gardens with Bonsai, Waterlilies, Roses and more.

Thanks man!!!
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Genesis 1:1

3 nice snakes Jason, I choose your blonde as number 1

Fun thread, guys! Here are my favorites:

My outreach partner. He turned 15 this year. We've grown up together.

Holdy-back yearling kids from my crazy jani pair.

OTs: 1 of the 2 CB Lake Wales FL easties. So much fun. Need to get recent pics. They're about 4-5' now and a lot cooler looking. They're also 'tame'.

And a shiny red thing that's by far the most hostile species I've ever worked with. Kind of why they've grown on me.

Awesome animals!
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