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This year's production is the first using my new computerized environmental controls on the Gila room. I look forward to this coming season after a few tweaks of the system.

If you could choose a couple of holdbacks, which would they be?

Mark

as i was decideing i passed out. woke up in icu may never recover but now i have seen heaven and touched the face of god i will die in peace.

I like your style.

Come on'... That's just plain mean to post those pics (lol). I'm sure you hear it all the time, but- GREAT WORK... guess the new climate control room is working. Very nice looking hatchlings. I've had a "hankerin'" lately for some really dark ones...(guess some people call them "high black".
Dr. Seward- I heard you had some beadeds...any luck yet (hear they tend to breed easier than gilas).

Thanks for posting..I enjoyed every one of the NINETYEIGHT photos

Graham

Thanks Graham.

I do have a small group of horridum. I've produced them for the last few years. They need a little different treatment that breeding Gilas, but they are very similar.

Mark

Mark you are the man. ill take whatever you want me to hold back.

anyway they all look good and you will know what best sells. However if i had your stock i would prob hold a couple of the most symentrical patterned and a couple of the most abbarant.

but either way let me know whats avail

Thanks crotalusco.

Geez Mark how could anyone pick just a couple of holdbacks from that group??? Thats really not fair at all. LOL Those are all incredibly nice. Congrats on what looks like a very successful year.

Thanks AnjaB!

And I thought it was hard to choose from the 6 that I produced in my first clutch! I have now been sufficiently humbled by your overwhelming display of the mastery of gila propagation. It looks like you were only a couple short of producing 100 gilas in a single season. You are, undoubtedly, the undisputed reigning Gila King. I hope you can do a similar posting of all of your adults so that we can see who begat who. After I got over the "kid in a candy store syndrome", I'd choose the following. How about checking out my slim pickings a few posts down and let me know who you think I should holdback?

C11_1-2606_1_ - narrow bands, amount of orange on legs and head
C5001_111006 - speckling in bands
C3_102106_1_5 - lots of orange on head, lots of bands on tail
S4_102306_6_6 - that is one clean dark retic

Congrats again Mark, and thanks for all the great animals and advice.

Brian

Id keep all of them
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Pat
"You keep WHAT in your freezer?" "Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

1.2 Water Pythons (Liasis Fuscus)
1.1 (100% het albino Clark Strain) Retics
1.1 Coastal Carpet Pythons
.1 Nhandu Chromatus
.1 Pitbull Wolfe mix

and send the rest to me, they are too ugly to dispense to the general public.

Nice year Mark!

Lat
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Cheers
Lateralis
"I would rather be precisely wrong than approximately right"
Marion "Doc" Ford

Black S4_102306_6_6 be the devil's 'derm, I suspect.