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Well the took all the photos so I'll start again. Rick

I picked up a pair of Rick's bimac offspring last season. Great eaters and hardy for a smaller rat snake. BTW - the ones you sent me last year Rick are doing great. I was lucky to get the last pair you had available. Terry Cox is working with a color phase or two of bimacs. With the news of Glenn's albino female bimac being gravid, there should be some nice bimacs and color phases including some albinos in the not too far future. This should be an exciting species to get and work with. Terry should be letting me know (in the fall I think) what he might have available to add to the pair I got form Rick. Great work US breeders.

This is my next favorite Eurasian after E. schrencki and dione. Bimacs are cool little ratsnakes. It's true we're working on a new color phase, we call it "blonde", but remember bimaculata has a small number of eggs. I expect five or six from a clutch, and hope to get two clutches this year.

Ter, as you know, it takes time to start up a new line, especially when you only have one snake, like Glenn's albino. The F1's will all be het. Then you have to raise them up to breed one back to the original. We're doing that with the blonde phase, not really knowing the genetics (hoping to isolate a mutation). We're also doing that with the South Koreans to get two different lines from two different w/c snakes.

This is my 2 yr. old, het for blonde, female, along with a normal in opaque stage. We call her "Sylvester"...

TC

for some of the things already going this year. The US breeders have made some nice strides the last several years. Of course, its been along with some set backs. I think Rick's bimacs are actually a combination of yours and Sacha Korell's bloodlines. I'm really trying to take the time to tie in several things happening with each species. I've found alot of people don't realize alot of the breeding of old world that will be producing morphs, pattern traits and color phases. There's going to be alot of fun with these old world rat snakes in the future. Sorry, I guess I got ahead of myself and the snakes,. LOL