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sold to me as a floridana, what do you think?


here's a floridana X blotched

Not sure what you are asking. Are you asking what strain of lavender or if its a pure floridana?

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Well it looks like the bands come down to the sides to much. Most florida/brooksi have a ladder pattern on top and a misaligned broken pattern on the sides. But with new morphs in the market this way of keying specimens is not always true and correct because I have seen some weird banding on bohafide specimens.

As far as the type of lavender it looks like a strian from Lloyd Lemke(?)

I wonder if the lavender calif king is allelic with the two (Lemke & Ricks)known lavender strains of brooksi? I wish someone would do this and share the results. I ask this because there have been a lot of rumors spreading about that the two accepted pure lavenders are crossed with calif kings as well.

New England line axanthic brooksi

Thanks Rainer, I appreciate your knowledge, I THINK he is a Cali-orida, the guy who traded him to me appeared to be a decent type, i may be able to get more info.

...out there, I sold him 2 yrs ago at Daytona for fifty bucks. Although he was a beautiful snake and did look like an amel peninsula intergrade king somewhat, I was certain that there was Cal king in his backround and never used him in any of my breedings.
:Mark

Mark, what do you think caliorida maybe? sorry for the feeding pic.

...that snake has a few markers of Cal king..
The longish nuchal "patch" that is evident on many Cal kings (just behind the head--imagine it on a Cal king as black)
also the "dot" in that patch (many FL kings have a straight thin line across that area making a first "band"
and as Rainer has said, the side markings seem to come down to almost make a "chain" pattern. who's to say there isn't eastern in there??
I remember some time ago before any of the nice looking albino "brooksi" there were all sorts of trials rumored to get the "ultimate albino brooksi". There were of course Cal kings that had the albino for some time then. Also there were the guys who figured holbrooki albinos crossed into the FL would be a better match(I believe they were right)for looks.
I know of one or two albinos that have popped up from wc and the only ones I am aware of were what we now call peninsula intergrades.
If those were used, then there would certainly be a different look. Much like the one you have there I expect.
Of course by now who knows? The resulting amels and hets have been back crossed so many times now it's really anyones guess in my opinion. Some, like the one I posted above are almost certainly Cal X FL.
My humble opinion.
:Mark

Thanks for your opinion, and the info, i'm guessing mine is a cal X flor with possible other.