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I bred these 2 last year and kept the babies, unfortunately I only got one female....so I will probably breed them again.

Here they are together.

Kerby...

Really brown, especially the head (different than the typical cal king mask).

The brown is coming from the Blizzard

Kerby...

Really brown heads! Brown coming through on the bands as well.

100% het for Lavender

100% het for Albino

And whatever else makes up the Blizzard (hypermelanism????)

Kerby...

I thought the Blizzard was a combination of the Albino and Melanistic genes.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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Updated 3/2/06

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I have no idea where the striping came from LOL

Kerby...

Really nice brown with the bands/stripe also slowly turning brown. I wonder if they will eventually be almost solid brown?

Kerby...

The problem with the snakes people work with now, is history. In the begining, we worked with homozygous animals. That is, animals from a local with like genetic makeup(even they have oddballs, but the type of oddball is within their genetic range) Now days, you may have a banded or a striped, or a newporter, or any of the newer morphs. But you have no idea of its genetic makeup(heterozygous) As they are not homozygous. You could use the word pure, but that word is not all to accurate with kingsnakes as kingsnakes are polymorphic(of many pattern types) in nature.

Whats funny is, this pic you posted reminds me of some of the original captive produced abberants from forty years ago(dude a flashback). I use to call those simple abberants, as they were the first step. Breeding those back to eachother produced complicated abberants, then crossing those with complicated abberants to other complicated abberants from different genetic backgrounds produced what you are working with today.

So yes, its easy to see for me, where that came from. Its merely a flashback. Thanks for posting Cheers

I picked this guy up last year at the Tucson Reptile Show, so I know nothing of his history....but I will be breeding him to a female Blizzard this spring.

I'm sure the babies will be brown, hopefully a few solid browns.

Kerby...

That looks alot like the Covina Cal King Brian Hubbs pictured in the Vivarium.
I am especially looking forward to seeing the double homo Mendota Ghosts. Those other ones just boggle my mind but I am glad somebody is trying to sort them out.

Unfortunately it will take me a few years of PATIENCE to breed every possible scenario.

And I started these projects a few years ago.

Kerby...

all cal kings taste like chicken.

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