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girlfriends would be nice to see, but I was thinking more about cal kings.

I finally got a pair of Blue-Eyed Blondes from VIVID Reptiles in 2005. They are hatchlings.

Here is a pic of the male. It will be a couple of more years before I breed them as they didn't feed right away, so I got a late start.

Kerby...

I picked this male up at the Tucson Reptile Show from a guy who bought this as a baby from Great Valley Serpetarium (Bill Gillingham). It is an adult now. I went to GVS's web site and there is a picture of one JUST LIKE THIS ONE and he calls them Lavender. I also called and talked to Bill and he calls them Lavender, and at one time had both Lavender strains (JB & JD). He said he bred them together and got normals that were double hets and bred them back and produced some cals that displayed both Lavender strains at the same time. Now I have a pair of Lavenders that look NOTHING like this. A friend of mine said that the pictured cal king here looks like an older Blue-Eyed Blonde????

I believe there are a lot more hypomelanistic genes out there that do not pair up.

Kerby...

Haha yeah I've heard the same thing about several non compatible types of hypomelanistic cal kings. But that one is really a spitting image of the blue eyed blonds that I have seen.

Either way they are beautiful, I think I'm going to get a pair from Vivid this year.

Kerby, that looks like the El Dorado blue-eyed blonde, from northern CA. I got a pair of those from G. Merker this fall. The color tends to fade as they get older and I believe there's some sexual dimorphism. I'm probably wrong, but that's a possibility. I don't know what the genetics are on those, but they are pretty snakes and a nice locality. I have a baby pic, which don't look much like the adults, imo....

I'm looking at picking up a thayeri from GVS. How are they to deal with, in your experience?(GVS, not the snakes.

Kerby...

Here's a 2004 female, Coastal blue-eyed blonde from Vivid. Seems like a type of hypo gene to me. TC

My wife made me delete and burn the ones I had. . . (They wern't of the snake variety)
Sorry, just havin' fun, (I do have some nice cal kings - but no blonde's yet)

Zee
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"I am an expert on everything, but I know so little and have so much to learn!" -Carsten "Zee" Zoldy-

i know jim sargent at splitrock reptiles has some veryveryvery nice blue eyed blondes, i had always basically thought/figured blue eyed blondes were lav's ,but seen up against a lav.as jim showed me there is no mistake between the 2 stunning animals 4sure,,,,,,,,,,,,,,thomas davis

His are from Vivid Reptiles as well.

Kerby...