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Mohr line anerythristic offspring- This is an unproven genetic line of anerythristic eastern. The dame is a very dark looking wild caught and the sire was a flame son of dame backcrossed to mom(theoretically het anery if it is a recessive trait). These breedings were done by Scott Felzer thru a breeding lone. While none of the offspring were obvious anerys at birth I aquired from Jeff Mohr all of his offspring 12 total, all but 4 died. Of the 4 survivors I ended up with two high quality male flames and two females (see below). Of the 2 females one is getting progressively darker every shed, I can't wait to see her as an adult. The other femele is lighter, but they both lack any bright color, primarily melanin pigments in appearance, and both have an attractive busy granite like patterning. I have high hopes for this darker female and the group as a whole, I took a bit of a gamble with this group and it may or may not pay off, either way I will have some fresh blood to outcross for other projects.

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Jeff,

All look really nice, especially the flame. Hopefully the anery trait will be proven out in 2010. I'll be breeding a "normal" looking het to the anerythristic mom, a flame het to flame het, a normal het to normal het, maybe a flame to a normal and hopefully from all of these will reproduce the anerythristic. Cool thing too is that the normals maybe double het snow due to the first year I bred both a flame and albino to the anery female and got about 50% flames and 50% normal looking babies. The normal looking ones may produce a second line of snow easterns and anerys if they prove out.

Scott

Yeah, this might be one of those projects that ends up being a lot of time and effort and may or may not pan out, but if it does pan out it will be really nice, but it's worth trying anyway, I figure I got my moneys worth either way out of those nice flames. lol.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com