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I tried to attatch a photo, but I'm new at this forum, so if it doesn't work...
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p5184ec949b48997946f187b0c396822a/fc26f30a.jpg

I got this guy for $150 at my LPS as a Abberent Chocolate King. I tried for HOURS to find something similar on-line, and came up fruitless. Anyone know this by another name, or have I got something a little more hard to find? I was willing to pat $150, since she's mostly tame, GREAT size, and as healthy and visualy appealing as can be- But I didn't think she'd be uncommon. Also, can anyone suggest a place to find a sizable male? ^_^

-Dave S

The link to the snake pic

Hard to say but I will give you $151 for it

* It could be a specific locale (Aaron would know more about that) Carlsbad???

* It can also be a product of a choclate banded x chocolate striped which will produce aberrancies.

But it sure does look pretty! Cool cal king!

Kerby...

lol Thanks for the offer but I'll hang onto him.

Now, the toughie. What could I breed it with? She's good breeding size... I've got a male around here, similar size, but he's the black, with a white mostly solid stripe down his spine... That the same species? Forgive me, what little I know of snake genetics, has been aimed at Ratsnakes untill recently. Thiss'll be my first year trying to breed anything.

-Dave

Breed her with any cal king and you will get aberancies. However a nice morph with some aberracies would be nice for future projects. Any way you go with this female the babies will turn out nice! Good luck and hurry and get her hooked up with a male real soon!

I seriously doubt it could be a pure Carlsbad. To me it looks like a "low-end" Bananna. When Steve Osbourne started selling his 50-90% yellow Cal Kings they were called Bananna Kings by him and my friend as well who was independently working on the same thing but a couple years behind. Later they were called Golden-Yellows or Hi-Yellows. So Bannana and Hi-Yellow are really the same thing but you see a gradation in the amount of yellow depending on how well refined they are. Some of Osbournes lower end stuff was actually brokered snakes my friend produced, although my friend did produce 90% yellow snakes, just not as many as Osbourne per clutch. That snake looks very much like some of the ones my friend produced, you would see about 20% normal wide bandeds, 60%-70% low/mid Bannana, and 10%-20% high-end Bannana or Hi-Yellow whatever you prefer to call them. Some of my friends were also albinos and the full yellow belly which Osbourne's did not have the full yellow belly back then. I remember I produced some of the first 90% yellow albino Bannanas from stock I got from my friend. Ironicly almost nobody wanted them back then, even Osbourne wouldn't buy them cause there was no demand. I ended up selling my pair of Albino Bannanas to a friend Brad who later sold them to Shannon and they are some of his best sellers nowdays. That pair is still producing for him, they gotta be 12 years old or something by now.