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I finally had some nice high quality pics taken of my collection this past weekend. Here's a sampling:

high band count baby male

high band, jagged edge baby female

no words to describe this little boy

adult male "Bartlett" orange phase

head shot of adult female

thanks for looking
Juarez Wonders

Those are extrordinary.

I thought you would like them Aaron. How did your year go for babies?
Juarez Wonders

I got a big fat zero. My breeder male got sick two weeks out of hibernation and my backup was too young to breed. Hopefully next year. I did good on alterna though and I have some suboc eggs yet to hatch. The subocs are late breeders and their eggs usually don't hatch till october or november.

Very nice animals. I keep 6 agalmas born 2005, an adult female born in 2003 (the one that was sick, but now seems back to normal again), and a small rather dull male born 1999. He's actually smaller than all my 2005 snakes. The older male was ofered to me this summer and I bought it just because my other adult male died just a week after brumation.

I have a question for you. I have had difficulties identifying the origin of my agalmas. I mean, most seem to argue that they originate from the Sierra de San Pedro Martir but I find that strange since that area seems hard to get to, while the Sierra Juarez seems easier to reach. I have read Richard Mulks and Brian Hubbs books, but I have still not been able to determine this.

Five of my agalmas were bred the U.S and three of them were bred in Germany (Thomas Steffen). I know that my adult female was bred by Eric Stoops, but the older male and the newly acquired American 2005 trio, imported to Germany in 2005 and sold there to a friend of mine, - I have no idea at all who bred them.

It seems that I have a problem getting pictures visible here, but I can link to them if that will help you answering my question. There is a link to my adult female in my other thread here, I'll try to put in a few more soon.