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It has been a fruitful year for Black Pearl Reptiles. For those of you that don't know, we work primarily with Drymarchon and mussurana.

Here's a sampling of what we're offering this year:

Yellowtail Cribos

Mexican Redtailed Indigos

Eastern Indigos

"Mottled" Unicolor Cribos

"Mottled" Blacktail Cribos

"Clean" Blacktail Cribos

Mussurana

Hopefully piebald mussurana and Texas indigos will become available soon as well!

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What beautiful animals. Perfect. And, really great to see more redtailed cribos coming to market. Those are spectacular beasts. Congrats on the rewards of a lot of dedicated work.

Look at these gems! Congratulations on what sounds like a fantastic season. Well done, Black Pearl Reptiles!

Cheers,

David

Congrats Chris on the rubidus breedings! Hmm... is it my imagination or does the "mottled" unis/bt's look very similar?

It's not your imagination. The mottling is very similar in the adults as well, but at least the adult tails look different!

since the ranges of unis/bts overlap, i wonder how these natural integrade looking animals get labelled. when imported, if it looks more uni, it's called a mottled uni and vice versa with the mottled bt? i suppose the belly is somewhere in between also? unis have that horizontal black speckling and bts have clean bellies. interesting. wish someone would do some mitochondrial dna tests on these two ssp and the integrade forms to see how related they actually are.

I totally agree. We've looked at countless museum specimens and have seen what look like blacktails come from unicolor range and vice versa.

Our "mottled" blacktails have a longer, blacker tail than most I've seen, but their bellies are heavily marked with black, so who knows?

What's for certain is that wild specimens are extremely variable and that people's idea of what a "classic" blacktail or a "classic" unicolor is just doesn't apply to wild populations the way we think they do.

u mean they all don't look like this in the wild? what is this madness u speak of? just when i can tell the difference between a uni and a black tail.