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After reading Doug and Jimmy's fantastic book about 4 times the past 2 weeks, I've decided I need to add some hondos to my collection.

I'm basically fully obsessed with the giant 7'11" animal shown at the beginning of the book. I've acutally followed the wife around the house with the book demanding that she stare at the picture with me. lol

I realize that animal was quite the exception, but is anyone working with a monster line of hondos that routinely get larger than average?

I'd like to aquire some and have my own pair of monster milks in a few years. Ideally something that will get bigger than my gaigae... er, i mean "micropholis"

Very glad you are enjoying the book, Aaron. Yes, wasn't that insanely HUGE tangerine L.t.hondurensis something!??? Absolutely THE BIGGEST triangulum I've ever seen or heard of....period!

I have a couple pretty big one's that are well over 5 feet, but nothing I would consider a solid bloodline of huge monsters by any means. I recall Rob Haneisen having some big anerys and possibly amels that were in the 6 foot range.

That monster tangerine was acquired as a juvenile from Louie Porras and Joe Baraducci's "The Shed" back in the late 70s. It was obviously fed very well on a diet of rats up to the mid-90s when that photo was taken. No doubt that snake also had some excellent genetic predispostion for attaining a great length as well.......wow!

cheers, ~Doug
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Ask my good friend Ross Padilla if his buddy still has any Hondos from this bloodline. This one was quite large from a Hondo blog we did for Herp Nation a good while back.

~Doug

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I had an anery male breeder (het for hypo too) that was 6.5 feet and very clean (see the pics attached) and my male tangerine breeder was about the same size. I'm growing up a couple of the albino kids now. I also have a extreme hypo male that has lineage from snakes that were close to six feet.

wow, that animal is spectacular. the 2nd photo showing the full length is great.

Nice stuff, Rob! That's the big anery I remember.

~Doug
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they are around

,,,,,,,,,thomas davis

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