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It seems every season has its success' and failures.

On a good note, I bred my female albino Japanese ratsnake to a normal Japanese rat. However, I realized that one of my adult het females was actually a male. So I introduced my het male but I figured the normal male already fertilized her since he was with her for a few days/weeks (and he chased her a lot).

Needless to say, I thought it would be another season of hets but to my suprise, the het male did the job! Out of three good eggs, two are ALBINO. I'll have better pictures soon.

Also, I had a het to het breeding in which one fertile egg (two bad ones) was laid (she was small) so there will a 25% chance of another albino.

Cheers,

Tom

Tom,

Congrats on the albino Japanese Rats! Gotta love those nice surprises!

My only "down" this year is the sex ratio of my mandarins and ridleyi. I've been very fortunate for the past three years, and always got even pairs or extra females. I guess this year is payback time! I have 4.2 mandarins and 6.2 ridleyi (so far -- a couple more to hatch).

These guys came out with their guns drawn! Amanda -- here are some feisty photos for you!

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Ronda Van Winkle
Northwest Herpetoculture

Ronda:
Yep, I saw those on the "other" forum. I'd love to get some of those in the future.

Tom:
A while back, I never really thought much about the japanese ratsnakes, but I'm starting to think that I'd like to get some of these too.

Do the albinos cost significantly more than the normals? What about hets?
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1.0 2001 Coral snow cornsnake
0.1 2002 Pastel Ghost poss Het Amelanistic cornsnake
1.1 2002 Bloodred cornsnakes
0.1 1998 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake
1.0 2000 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake
0.0.13 2004 Eggs (potentially normals, hypos, caramels, and ambers)

That's a wonderful surprise Tom! I think between us this year, we may have nearly doubled the number of albino Japanese rats in the US. My biggest "down" this year is that the bigger of my two female het climacs produced all slugs this year. But that was counterbalanced by the smaller female, who I thought probably wouldn't produce this year, laying the good eggs! You never know...

Congrats again!

I love the neck pattern

Tom - maybe your normal male is also het. Just a thought. If you really look at it, the statistics are supposed to balance out. I generally get a surprise or two each season which helps me through the disappointments. I'm disappointed this year with my black pines not breeding again. I've tried two years and they haven't gone for me yet. They are supposed to be one of the easier breeding snakes. My clutches aren't supposed to start pipping until the first week of August so I can't convey any surprises yet. I was very happy to get a clutch from my female Marcia Lincoln everglades that I bred to an amel everglades. I hadn't bred either of them before so I wasn't sure if they would go or not. I like to call them "surprises" and "disappointments". It wasn't too long ago it was something if you even got a clutch or two. We are succeeding a lot more than failing. Congrats on those albino climacs. That's worth at least two "surprises" in itself. Like Dave mentioned, you and he may have almost doubled the albino climacs in North America.

Terry Parks