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I had the good fortune of visiting Jeff Hardwick and his animals this week. Great guy with an unbelievable collection.

I could have taken pics all night...but you know how tough it is to get a wiggly milk snake to pose.

Here is one of my favs...a 2005 hypo syspila (red milk) from Jeff's collection.

WOW.

with envey. Jeff is a hell of a guy and I'd love to get to see his collection. What did he think of your hypo eastern?

Well...he agrees that's it's hypo...he didn't see it in person though.

That snake lives with a buddy of mine in KY b/c of laws about local animals here in OH...but...we still need to turn up a male from that KY local!

I'll probably wait and hit the same area in the spring.
If I can score a male, we may be producing hypos in a couple years...if she has to breed with a normal to produce hets...it'll be a while!!

PS: Agreed, Jeff is a hellof a guy. I'd encourage anyone to have 100% confidence in his animals and faith in him as a businessman.

Hiya Tony! You're all invited to hang out for a photo session and grilling event when the weather is reasonable here in MN. We can grill up that hypo scarlet king of yours!
The Triangulum that Dean collected is (as far as the definition of hypo goes) a hypo. We really should see the snake in 3 years before we get much more excited also, but I doubt we'll come up with better looking examples for awhile. Deans Triangulum should be a keystone animal in a breeding project.
That particular Syspila (pictured) was produced by Russ Mercado from the old Dave Blody stock and I hope to strengthen the line with new genes--they simply cannot be line bred forever and I suspect that all the hypo Syspila stock we see is descended from Daves project long ago. Dave has since lost the gene in the project and what we have is all there is.
I'll get around to posting a dazzling adult locality Syspila-a true tangerine gem you have to see.
All for now, thanx for the kind words Deano......Jeff

i agree

That really is a stunner.

Wow

Paul..
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Pinky's taste nice,only if there fresh..

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Outstanding animal . I know what you mean , I tried to get a pic of my 05 Hypo Syspila with out any luck . Way to active and I gave up after about 5 minutes.

Great little snake .

Jason