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Extreme Hondo Review

craighoitink1 Jan 07, 2014 05:33 PM

Just picked up a few Extremes off Norm Damm & Bill Whitlock from their Extreme line they got going on in Northern Ohio. These Extremes are a little different from what I've been working with for the last 5 or 6 years. Basically, I have mostly Mike Falcons bloodline animals or what I believe to be descendants of his line. There banding tends to be platinum for the nicer males and females tend to be more Ultra-lights(Pretty Standard). For me the Falcon line platinum banding doesn't seem to change much as they age. If they don’t start out light banded they don’t change much with age. Now these new guys I picked up are a little more interesting. They can start out a little darker with the banding and as they mature turn almost green, olive or even silver similar to the Falcon line. They don’t photograph well in the basement but when you put adults side by side they look considerably different. I snapped a few cell phone pic over the last few months(Most are crappy pics) and thought I'd share them. I'd be interested to see what people think? Does this line appears to be slightly different or kind of standard for some of normal variation you might see when line breeding a small population. The more I think about it it might just be like the normal variations you see in different strains/lines of Amels or other hypos out there. Here's a series of pictures(there's a lot because pics stink…sorry).

Hope you enjoy them.
craig

Two Aberrant Adults

A few Babies

The new ones I picked up
Male


Female

Replies (4)

Denbar Jan 08, 2014 09:11 AM

Those are very cool, Craig. The lighter one of the adults is almost like 2 different animals! Glad you shared the pics!

--Dennis

craighoitink1 Jan 08, 2014 06:25 PM

Dennis-I thought you'd like them…. they might not be that different than what we all have been working with but the green turning to gray is cool. Also thought people might just enjoy see some of Norms aberrant Extremes.

tspuckler Jan 08, 2014 02:32 PM

Those look unique. I've known Norm for a long time and he's been producing spectacular Hondurans for decades. That looks like a great project you've got there.

Tim

craighoitink1 Jan 08, 2014 06:41 PM

Thanks Tim. Yeah me to…. probably going on 25 years now that I get the basement tour (every once in a while) and bring home a lot more than I intend to. I have a nice anery I'm raising up from the Extreme line(Big thick aberrant bands) which next year I'd like to work into the project. I'm hoping it goes in the direction you've got going on with your Amel high white line your fine-tuning. Those are cool!

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