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I traded two of my Cali king hatchlings for this nice little female tricolor Queretaro king.

She is beautiful! Are you going to breed her to a male of her type?
I hope so!

Thanks. Yes, definitely. I don't care very much for all the albino morphs.

Are you sure that is a pure ruthveni? It's just that it looks a bit suspect due to the unusually-wide white head band and the overall triad width. It may veru well be just an unusual specimen, and it IS quite a beauty. Can we get another photo angle?

Yes I'm sure. The owner of the parents is a good friend of mine and I'm a 100% sure of the origin of that breeding pair.

The unusual appearence of this little one was the reason why I wanted her in my collection.

I'll try to take some more pics. What angle do you prefere?

Just something from the front is all -- beautiful animal. Glad you could understand why I was asking.

I used to work with ruthveni alot, and I have to agree with you. That snake does not look like normal captive strains of ruthveni. Still a cool snake in any case.
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Mark

of Ruthveni till now.I have been messing around with them for almost 20 years now and I have never seen one like that Peter.It has 22 (RBR'S) and thats a bit low for there range but there is always the exception.I sure would like to see some litter mates and the parents.Any other info you had on them would be great also.

L8r Shannon

Shannon
I'll try to get some pics but my friend lives about 300 miles away, meaning I can not take my own pics of his animals. I'll be forced to ask to use his own pics. I'm not sure about his response to such a request. However, I do know what the female looks like. She is almost colored the same way as this little on of mine, but she has more grey bands rather than the off-white of the hatchling. I know that my friend has got quite a few ruthvenis and I'm not sure just wich one of the males he owns is the father to this young female.

I'll dig further into my friend's collection and get back to you.
Nice sinaloan by the way. I try hard to breed sinaloans with perfect banding without any broken rings and also high in contrast. I feel this morph trend is wiping the old school snakes out.

I've got two sinaloan breeding couples and in the older pair both snakes has perfect banding, but even so I got one hatchling with several broken rings.

Shannon
Just checking in to let you know that I'm still working to soften my friend up a bit to be able to use his photos. I guess that he's currently occupied with all his new Lampropeltis that he laid his hands on at the Terraristika Hamm fair in Germany. I couldn't afford the trip myself this year (a 1000 miles down there and a 1000 miles to get back home).

LOL, I can understand that buddy.

L8r