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Here is a pic of my male 2004 albino banded cal king trying to hold down a reverse striped female, both are about 4 feet long, I bred them together in 2012 and 2013 and they produced completely different babies both years so I figured I would breed them again this year and see what pops out. She is currently gravid and supposed to lay any day now.

Here is a pic of her clutch last year.

And this is a 2009 pair of cal kings I got from Slipstream Serpents in 2009, the male is a vanishing stripe, they produced some pretty cool babies last year, but most of the clutch this year has gone bad. Luckily the male bred to another female with similar genetics and that clutch was 18 good eggs.

And a young adult female Blizzard cal king. This female is the smallest female I ever bred, and I bred her to a Ghost male to get some triple hets to work with, a lot of potential in her right now, hopefully she lays them alright!

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Very nice Mike! Thanks for sharing!
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Genesis 1:1

Great post, Mike! I have exactly the same two snakes you have pictured in the first pic! Albino male banded and reverse striped female. Amazing cuz my daughter has been urging me to pair them up next season, and speculating about what would be the result. Can't wait to show her this post. As always great pics. You've got some really good looking Kings. Thanks for sharing. Made my night.

reako45

Well she did lay, I had great success this year with just putting a small tub of moist peat moss in the drawer and the females all laid in a timely manner, had 2 snakes become egg bound and both ended up passing the eggs, also had 3 snakes lay eggs out in the open (1 was just dropping slugs in the open). On Monday there was an egg sitting out in the open in the reverse striped's drawer, she had her nesting box before she shed and was taking longer than usual so I assumed she wasn't content with the box of dirt. I put her in a tub in the closet with dirt and a piece of tile. There was another egg buried in the nesting box, oddly enough both eggs she laid individually are fertile.

She started laying eggs in the closet tub almost immediately, I got to remove them today, 7 good eggs and 3 slugs... So 9 good total. This is my 3rd year breeding her, in 2012 she laid 14 good eggs and last year she laid 15, I was kind of expecting 16 good eggs this year. Guess maybe the male being 10 years old is what the problem is, luckily I kept her nicest 2012 striped baby and he may be ready by next year.

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Mike, you do have some wonderful kings, but 10 years old is young. The male that was the great grandfather to you albino, was 22 when he first bred and he produced many many offspring.

Nesting can cure your problem, save and reliable. I had to learn nesting, because cal kings are far from the easiest to nest right. Best wishes and beautiful snakes.

Nice pairings, Mike! Hopefully you can produce a hypermel X Palomar ghost double homo one day.
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>>>And a young adult female Blizzard cal king. This female is the smallest female I ever bred

Mike,
how young? and how small?