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I was going through an old photo group, and found this picture from Joel Rosen, 1991, of an imported longicauda male who was the sire of a clutch from which I bought some babies. It's the beauty of this male that caused me to get the babies. One of the males I bought went later to John Meltzer. That male, bred to an old wild caught female longicauda started John's line of longicaudas. This line has produced anerythristic longicaudas, and now looking at this photo I believe the original wc male that Joel Rosen had was likely a true anerythristic longi himself. Mark Hauge

Looks like it. That is one pretty snake. Did you ever breed the ones you had? Do you have any pics of yours?
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Yes, I have 2.2 breeders from that line, and they have produced the past 2 years. Here's a pic of one of them. Mark

Thanks for the info Mark. It's great to learn the background of some of the beautiful animals floating around these days. Great pic!

Phil Goss

... between a copy of that same image I've had here for some time and the one you just posted..
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I sure would like to see some of these original animals in the flesh! So much is lost (or added) by the way software utilities and compression routines, scanners and all the needed steps to get a photo on the screen... and the deep blue background makes it almost impossible to see if the light curve or color saturation are skewed, intentionally or by accident.

Beautiful snakes, either way you look at it.
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