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A couple of pictures of our 'checkerboard' speckled kings
myexotix
Jun 20, 2003 10:27 PM
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myexotix
Jun 20, 2003 10:28 PM
...and an albino version.
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snyper438
Jun 20, 2003 10:38 PM
Nice patterns. Good looking kings.
Nokturnel Tom
Jun 20, 2003 11:53 PM
Looks more like a desert king to me. Where did you get those? Pretty snake whatever it is. Tom
myexotix
Jun 21, 2003 06:41 AM
... to get the whole story. The top two pictures are the sire and dam.
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rtdunham
Jun 21, 2003 01:15 PM
>>... to get the whole story. The top two pictures are the sire and dam.
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I get an error message when I try to go to the link you provided. It's entered as:
"http://www.myexotix.com/sna/lghchk.htm"
anything there you might revise/correct?
thanks
terry
myexotix
Jun 21, 2003 03:27 PM
...here 'tis:
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myexotix
Jun 21, 2003 03:30 PM
Bad enough to do it once but twice?
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Nokturnel Tom
Jun 21, 2003 08:31 PM
Is there no way to see if it is pure by a count of head scales or any scientific kind of reasoning? My guess is just due to the fact in my opinion it resembles a desert king more than a speck. I guess you don't know what the older generations of the snakes from that line were? I mean if the grandparents for example were crossed with something else? It is interesting looking, it would be nice to know exactly what it is. Tom
myexotix
Jun 22, 2003 02:41 AM
Sure, I'd be happy to take whatever measurements/counts you'd like (dunno why I didn't think of it). It would be interesting indeed. I'll try to post this info as soon as I get back in town on the 30th.
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chrish
Jun 21, 2003 01:12 PM
First of all - Bizarre!
Am I correct in understanding that both of the parents of the original snake were albino??
I would love to know how the snake ended up producing melanin then. If it was just a reversion, why the bizarre pattern? Maybe albinism in speckled kings is more than just a failure of the melanin production pathway. Just shows us how complex the genetic basis for color pattern must be in snakes.
I have never looked closely at the pattern of an albino speckled king. Do they show this abberant blotching? I would guess not, since your albino checkerboards look different than normal albinos.
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Chris Harrison
myexotix
Jun 21, 2003 03:40 PM
Chris, the guy that gave me the original male is a friend of a friend. When I called my friend to crow about the clutch and expressed some doubt about the story of two albinos being the parent, he told me that he knew the original breeder and that that breeder didn't work with anything but albino speckleds.
Atavism, the appearance of a 'throwback' trait, is possible. Just like one in a million hatchings might yield an albino from a normal mating, I guess one in a million albino matings might yield a het? I dunnoo... The relationship of that to the checkerboard pattern is impossible to know.
The checkerboard trait does appear to be codominant, though, because the mother (the albino pictured on our page) is more randomly speckled, though slightly banded.
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