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Well, I see lots of people are starting their new projects and getting their new purchases. I figure that's as good a basis for a thread as most. How about a survey of what everyone has at the top of their list for the New Year?

Here's mine:
I'm going to finish off the expansion of my mandarin group.
I hope to add one or two eurasian ratsnake species.
I'm thinking of getting a pair of nice everglades.

Regards
John

I am hoping to get everglades, possibly a taiwan beauty or trinket rat, bairds, and several corn morphs. I hope to collect myself; black rats, emoryi, speckled kings, prairie kings, and maybe a bullsnake. Anyone else?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
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"

Eastern foxes, hoping to diversify the stock, plus more more more Louisiana pines and Drymarchons.

L. g. splendida are at the top of my list, just above P. bairdi, though I probably won't manage either since I'll be moving twice this year. I hate moving, and I've never moved with snakes, so I'll probably have to wait until after the second move to consider anything. Of course, since I'll have to give up my job, I'll probably be so broke I won't be able to get anything. Sorry for the rant. The point is, splendida and bairdi.

Hang in there and I hope it works out well for you.
Regards
John

>>Well, I see lots of people are starting their new projects and getting their new purchases. I figure that's as good a basis for a thread as most. How about a survey of what everyone has at the top of their list for the New Year?
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>>Here's mine:
>>I'm going to finish off the expansion of my mandarin group.
>>I hope to add one or two eurasian ratsnake species.
>>I'm thinking of getting a pair of nice everglades.
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>>Regards
>>John
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I will be recieving some Great Plains Rats in a week or two.
Four will be het albino and one will be possibly het albino.
So, I should be able to produce some nice albino GPR's in a couple of years.
They will also be used to infuse new emoryi blood into my creams, stripe creams, motley creams and cinnamons.

Those are about the only snakes I plan to acquire.
At least as of this writing.

Other then that I will just be working on my few breeding projects.

Bairds rat snakes
creamsicles
motley creamsicles
stripe creamsicles
cinnamons

okeetees
classics
anerys
amels
snows
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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The only thing I haven't gotten, yet, is a nice new L.m.thayeri, variable king. There's some beauties out there. I have picked up some new Cal King morphs and will be working with those. That's my most active group as far as buying.

I'm reducing in my Eurasian Group, except for bimaculatas. I have a new male and female to work with. I'll try breeding Mandarins and calico Chinese stripe-tails one more time before reducing those stocks.

In my Guttatus Group my silver emoryi are ready to go, but I don't want to breed them to each other. One is going to get bred to an albino corn and the other will be crossed with a Brazos Island rat to make an emoryi x meahllmorum cross.

Good luck everybody....TC

I'm looking to add some fresh bloodline to my blk rat collect ion and maybe start a small cal king project

Many new subocs including several localities that are morphs. Peach/pink, gray phase (not axanthic but hypoxanthic), golden-orange, some new orange phased subocs, and even a the red phase!
www.subocs.blogspot.com

I look forward to your pictures. Especially the oranges.
John

I hope to increase my success with European Ratsnakes, such as the two localities of Leopard Rats I have along with the Ladder Rats and E. longissima. Also, I will continue with my Beauty Snake projects and locality Pituophis.

Scott John Reptiles

NT

I'd like to breed my whitesided Yellow Ratsnakes to my North Carolina Greenish Ratsnakes, and my albino blotchless Yellow Ratsnakes to my whitesided Yellow Ratsnakes.

So I could probably have lots of fun without spending any money at all, but...

This year I'm gonna get myself a few unrelated breedingpairs of striped Elaphe climacophora. I already got one pair, and right now I'm negotiating for a second unrelated pair. I'm quite into northern ratsnake species, so I just might get myself a couple of nice Elaphe schrenkii or E. anomala as well.

Later, Herman.

I would like to find a Dekerts Rat Snake. I have one or more Texas, Black, Yellow, Everglades, Gray, and Gulf Hammock's. What can I say, I like P. obsoleti snakes in their natural colors.

I have in the cooler now both Black Rats and amelanistic E. guttatus emoryi. I will be giving away the Blacks because I live in Va. and you can't sell native wild types in this State. (Plus you can't have more than five at any time.)

One of the snakes in the cooler.

Did you say giving away......?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
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 is what I said. In Va., you can't sell wild type native reptiles. But I have until July to worry about it. First I have to get some fertile eggs. I do plan to sell the Emoryi offspring.

I have actually been looking for emoryi but they are all het for albino so at least $75 each. does anyone have just plain old normal emoryi anymore? I refuse to pay almost triple for a gene I won't even use
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
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"

I have a spare adult male that came from Texas. This is a picture of one of the three that I have.

Hopefully getting these to breed for the first time, they are all old enough for first breeding this year (finally):
Carinata
Climacaphora
Coxi
Dione's
Ridleyi
Baird's
Albino Nelson's Milks

Also getting additional Mandarin females to breed and Shinisaurus females to breed. Gonna be a great year (I hope)! Good luck everyoe on the new projects!

Bryan

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Last night I was laying in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the hell is my ceiling?"

NT

I hope to complete my wished for 2.2 groups of E. quats (just an adult female to get) & sauromates (an additional 1.2 Easterns required). If funds allow later on this year, maybe get a group of 2.2 Z. longissimus too.
Most of all I want to breed from my existing ladders (as well as my garts & Argie boas). I'll be holding back all any females from my 'silver' Ladder, in the vain hope that they might develop similar characteristics. I can hope.
Good luck everyone, wishing you success!
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Devboy.

Those are really great looking serpents.

Regards
John