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'03 Vivid line female Thayeri.
-John Lassiter-
BTW, nice Mexicana Jetzen!!

Sibling Sister to above female Thayeri.
-John Lassiter-

And here is the male for both females in '06. Can't hardly wait to see the offspring.
-John Lassiter-

Here is the pair I will be breedin this year. I wonder how many leonis phase offspring will be produced out of a milksnake phase pairing? I have never bred milksnake phase to milksnake phase. I will be breeding the male to another milksnake phase female as well.
-John Lassiter-

A couple males from Chris' Colubrids.
-John Lassiter-

Vivid line thayeri with reduced black. Will breed in '06 as well.
-John Lassiter-

Fantastic collection of Thayeri John. I assume you got some big plans for the enext breeding season. I'll be watching and waiting.

Yes Mark,
2006 will be my "big" year. Not only with they Thayeri, but will Hondurensis, Ruthveni, Greeri, Brooksi and more. LOL!!!
I cannot wait to produce offspring from the first Thayeri I produced back in '02. I could have produced this year from a couple, but wanted to give them another year of growth to avoid any complications. Thank you for the compliments. I saw your Thayeri on the kingsnake forum and I love the peach coloration. It will be an impressive adult.
-John Lassiter-

Here is another Thayeri from my Vivid line that has nice reduced black:

..but a little small. She is about 2 feet long. I just need to find an appropriate male. Although her look doesn't match with current trends, I loved the peach ground color and the brightly colored saddles. I even liked the strong black borders because they highlighted the brightly colored saddles. Now, how I match her up is still a matter of conjecture. I know I'll stay with Leonis but I'm debating about the other characteristics - particularly ground color. That's where I'm at a loss. I suspect I'll end up with the first one that really jumps at me regardless of ground color. I'll probably focus on saddle quality. That last one of yours is just beautiful. I see ones like that and get intrigued by the reduced black. It gets gloriously confusing for a snake buff. That whole collection you've posted is really inspiring right now. These guys could be seriously addicting.

Mark,
There is no "trend" right now in Thayeri in my opinion. They all are beautiful snakes. That Peach leonis phase of yours is great. If I saw it for sale I would have probably purchased it too.

I hatched nearly 40 out my first year of breeding ('02) thayeri. You should have seen how greedy I was holding some back for future breeding. I think I began with 4.12 holdbacks and eventually had to let go of many. From that year I have 2.4 subadults left. As they grow they go through an ontogentic change of sorts. Some lose color and some gain beautiful speckling in the scales making a ground color actually change its overall appearance. A yellow background thayeri will sometimes get those cool little grey specks on each and every scale and give it that Green appearance.

As for the reduced black Thayeri. I have two males that have great potential, but no female as of yet. I did hold back a sibling female to breed them to just to see if some more pop out. We shall see.

Glad to be inspiring,

-John Lassiter-