Reptile & Amphibian Forums

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

#14

This one is awesome!

#15

#13 - I almost forgot this one.

the nearly patternless ones and the ones that have little to no black around the first couple saddles are awsome, they are all awsome, but those are AWSOME

Love those wide banded ones, hope they're hets cause that wide-band anery is fantastic; and those nearly patternless ones as too. Well there are great really. Maybe throw some hypo blood in to the mix and you would have some crazy offspring.

Best,
Vinny
-----
“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Man,

Those alterna are straight from heaven. That one with the intense red and the one that is almost black with black eyes is AWESOME!

Congrats on these clutches,

Steven Owens

alterna. You can find so many different patterns and colors all within the same clutch and same locality. If you take out albino and other unusual morphs in colubrids, there are not too many species that are so extreme in variation within a single clutch. Another that comes to mind would be thayeri. What else in colubrids besides these two subspecies mexicana are this extreme in variation in wild populations or within a clutch. The differnet variations like corns would not count as we are saying the same clutch or locale without morphs. Ric

would be the ever-so-popular Sonora semiannulata . . . of course, practically no one breeds them, but they're the only other snake that I can think of that is as diverse as alterna:

pattern: plain/black capped/a few black wedges/all black wedges/black or brown or olive banded/and smudged

color: plain gray, plain brown, plain tan, plain olive, plain red, red striped on various plain grounds

Troy