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I bred this blackback female (in shed in picture) and she
produced one viable egg in 2003. The baby looked almost
identical to her. There are 3 interesting things that
appear to be genetically passed on to the offspring...

1) Nice black back, with minimal breaks
2) Very clean pattern (no alien markings)
3) Interesting speckled scales...the mother has about 10
or so individual white scales spread out over her body
(not sure how well they will come up in the pic). The
sibling has the same interesting scales, so is seems to be
genetic. Anyone else seen this? Single white scales
randomly on her body.

Now I just need to figure out what I want to breed this
girl to this season...Any suggestions??? She's currently
pushing about 2900g.

Have a nice day,
Chris

I was surprised how much she looked like the mother...

Regards,
Chris

np

the clean pattern reminds me of Corey's line of genetic blackback......blackbacks are awesome!

Congrats!......as far as what to breed to her this year?...that's a tough one because pastel, albino, hypo, ??? blackbacks will be awesome! Corey is breeding a super pastel to his line this year........keep us posted on what you decided to go with!

I'm sure someone has probably already tried it....but I would breed Genetic Black Back X Pastel.....especially since it appears to be dominant. I not aware of someone with a proven blackback pastel line.....or at least they are not marketing it heavy.

Jim Perron
pythonpassionreptiles.com