>>Congrats john !
>>The first looks fantastic, hope you get some more...
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>>and a Q:
>>you have posted about het melanistic thayeris: does your hets have a prominent darker belly?

Thanks Micheal.....
As for the Melanistics...
I never refer to them as het melanistic....I'd rather call them thayeri with melanistic parent or lineage.......

I do have a pair over here on loan produced by Brad Alexander that had one melanistic parent and both of them have a black belly.......They actually have alot of melanin on their dorsum too.....Wide, black borders and dark speckling......
I have two others (one from Jonel Lopez) over here too that have melanistic lineage and have black bellies.....

Hope this helps....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
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