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Is anyone here working with, or on, varients of the whitesided morph...
Like W/S Brindle or W/S Rusty?

now those would be some bangin' animals!!

later.

byron.d

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e Jolliff is.
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"

that posted funny....
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"

What about Whitesided / Blotchless?

Or Whitesided / Ultra Black?

Next year I'm gonna breed double hets.

those would be very nice as well.
i think the ultra black would hard to produce because of what the W/S gene does to color... i've noticed that in all W/S snakes
the color and pattern is very muted.. does anyone know why this happens....?

byron.d

I would think it has something to do with being codominant with the wild type gene, same as leucism. Just a guess though.....

I think it's the white skin behind the scales. The same effect is what I see in my whitesided Yellow Ratsnakes, but these are a bright lemon because of this, wich I think is quite attractive. It's a pitty about the whitesided Black Ratsnake though. I mean, I still like them nevertheless, but the contrast could have been so much better if it wasn't for the white skin behind the black scales. That's why I would like to see what happens when the whitesided trait is combined with melanism. Wouldn't it be cool if the result turns out to be a high contrast black & white ratsnake, perhaps like the piebald Persian Ratsnake (Zamenis persicus)? Ok, so this is wishful thinking, but I guess it's worth the shot.

Both of those have been on the market for some time now. Look around at the shows, you'll see them.