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I absolutely love these,




thanks for looKING!

I still like that patternless one.

I wonder exactly what morph it would be referred to as, considering the actual melanistics are jet black instead of brown.
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Mike
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maybe one of the experts will answer it, for us.

I have an adult female GA eastern king that looks similar to that. She's my only king that still eats LOL. Still has quite the feeding response too.
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Mike
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Yes, a N.Fla or a N.Fla.-X-S.Ga. ask Jason.

JetZen... i really don't think that those cali kings even the patternless would be considered a mutation... i think they all are normals... but i guess you won't know till you test breed them... either way they are killer snakes, and Mike said Melanistics are JET BLACK... i gotta disagree b-cuz cali kings that are considered melanistics are not JET BLACK

I think the name Chocolate suits these snakes either way (morph or Normal)

l8r

~Z

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Bklyn's Finest Brooksi & Goini Fanatic

your expertise and thoughts are always welcome.

Melanistics are JET BLACK. It's just you see so little TRUE melanistic cali kings in the hobby that you forget what is and isn't melanistic. What Kerby has.... MENDOTAS, are a brownish/black color with visible bands. By definition those are NOT melanistic. They have got to be a form of melanism, because if bred with albinos, and double hets bred back to each other they produce blizzards....

I have rarely see any pics online of actual melanistics... But have several pictures of them in books.

Melanistics are underlooked because they are jet black and a black snake in general is "ugly" to those who like snakes with "pretty colors". If you do see them for sale, they are the product of blizzard X blizzard cali king, and are often labeled as "Hets" or "Chocolates" by those who don't know better.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
Updated 10/28 NEW PICS AND NEW SECTION!

ok Mike...
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Bklyn's Finest Brooksi & Goini Fanatic

"any" darkness of the skin, hair or eyes, resulting from high pigmentation.

i can't wait till you breed the two lightest "milk chocolate" ones.... you know i want a pattern less! the breeder that has the original pair didn't come through for me...

l8r

~Z

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Bklyn's Finest Brooksi & Goini Fanatic

Well,ya know they will be available, And what is that killer!

Oh the snake pictured is one of my goini X brooksi crosses... the first one that hatched... she just started feeding willingly a lil while ago so i'm pumping her up!!

one more to go... really killer female with a nice orange bellie but she's not feeding! she keeps killing the pinkies thou... she just won't eat them!

~Z
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Bklyn's Finest Brooksi & Goini Fanatic

I thought the first was a eastern, both are very nice and i hope the second one starts eating.

np

Very nice, love the chocolate and yellow phase cal kings.

Thanks, they are great cals, rarely skip a meal, and arn't as jittery as most of the other cals in my collection.