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Well I had my big female DH stripe albino drop her babies yesterday unfortunatly they were premature I don't think many will make it. She was bred by my arabesque male that was possible het albino and stripe, and he has apparently proved to be both het albino and stripe.

It was his first breeding and I got mostly slugs, but I also got 3 albinos 2 striped albino arabesques, One striper, one with a weird arabesque tail and some hints of striping and one normal colored poss DH that I know will make it (wiggly little guy). The rest I give about 50/50 chance...

Looks like the stripe gene really throws the arabesque pattern a for a loop, here are some pics..

This striped albino has an arabesque pattern untill it hits a blocky saddle from the stripe line and then breaks up into big saddles and stripes ending in a tail stripe.

This one has a funky arabesque looking tail

As they say there is always next year...
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Ed Lilley, www.constrictorsnw.com

Ed, I'll put a prayer up that they make it for you.

Quig

Hope they make it for you Ed. Good looking pups and it would suck to see them go to snake heaven.

Can you think of anything that might have attributed to the mom dropping early?

She was due on the 8th, So I would geuss it just wasn't hot enough.. I temp gunned her several times and all seemed well but I never have any problems accept with the bottom row of cages where I have the big girls.. (momma is 10ft) Temps guns can't read ambiant temps just surface temps, so I am going to check on that.. Either that or the big ones just need more heat due to their large mass, but I am officialy moving all my girls up a cage and using the bottom row for males.

The little poss DH is definitly going to make it I just checked on them and it tryed to bite me... So I'm taking that as a good sign. "Pita" the mother of the babies is doing well, she didn't lose much weight due to most of the litter being slugs. I'm going to give her another day and hook her up with a big bunny..
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Ed Lilley, www.constrictorsnw.com

np

a type of barrier. When you have a high ratio of slugs, I beleive they absorb most of the heat. We have had several high slug litters where the babies were premature.
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Chris & Alliey
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I was completly and totally depressing!!
Those babies looked awesome. It looks like a great pairing.
Sorry to hear about that.
John
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np.......

Hope all goes well with the ones that did make it. They truly look nice, its just to bad she didnt go full term. Good Luck on the others.
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Chris Farmer
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I hope your albinos make it. The results are very interesting. There have been very few boa breedings that combined pattern traits and these animals are a glimpse of what might occur. At least you found out the genetics of your Arabesque. I wish you better success with your other breeding projects.
Bill Kirby

They still look great though and hopefully some of them will pull through for you. It's surprising how resilient they can be sometimes so definitely keep us posted on how they do. It is neat to see how the genetic stripe affects the Arabesque pattern.

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien
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