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2012 annulata holdbacks

mikefedzen Jun 18, 2014 08:10 PM

In 2012 since none of my albino males were ready I bred a Freer TX het albino to a spotted female and to a normal female. Got 3 eggs from the normal female, 1 baby died 1 was sold, got 9 eggs from the spotted female a couple died and some were sold, 1 escaped. End result was 1.1 possible het albino spotteds and a female possible het albino. Trying to get them up to size for next year. Am not expecting albino spotteds from them, but it's a cool possibility! Babies from my albino x spotted breeding this year will likely produce the first ever albino spotted mexican milk in a couple years... can't wait till those eggs hatch!

Female possible het albino

Female possible het albino spotted

Male possible het albino spotted... I like his black circle and the several white scales he has... piebalding??
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reako45 Jun 24, 2014 04:31 AM

Love annulata! Those're sweet. Producing a spotted albino Mex. Milk would be awesome. Best of luck with that.

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bisch7 Jun 28, 2014 03:59 PM

SSSOOOO close to those albino spotteds. Throwing out a few of them would IMO be the coolest thing to happen to Lampropeltis, ive been in love with annulata since i first got into snakes in high school back in '99. The actual snake to have gotten me interested in reptiles was actually Applegate's spotted annulata...of course at 15 i could not afford something like that so i settled for a regular. I really can't wait for you to produce some albino spotteds. My spotted female laid 10 this season, 4 hatched so far but only one had a couple spots but not full clean spots like last years baby who sadly decided to starve itself to death.

mikefedzen Jul 03, 2014 12:55 AM

Thanks man, I personally cannot wait for the day I see an albino spotted annulata. Sucks about your spotted clutch, I bred spotted to spotted got 9 eggs only 4 were good and fruit flies destroyed 2 of those. Also bred albino to spotted and got 11 good eggs, that clutch and albino X unrelated "normal" (5 good eggs) were the only good annulata clutches I had this year. Got 15 eggs total between an albino female and het female, used an albino male on them that had been shipped to me earlier in the year, thus disrupting his breeding cycle.
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bisch7 Jul 06, 2014 12:08 PM

Yea, all but one egg has hatched so far and no spotteds in this clutch. one snake came out with a kink a half inch from the back of the neck and another one i had to cut the egg open because it ended up kicking the bucket, but it too was heavily deformed. I am still dying to get another perfect spotted annulata.
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Aaron Jul 15, 2014 01:28 AM

That's a bummer about the flies. I've had trouble with them too. Last year I switched from vermiculite to sphagnum moss and have not had any flies at all. I put the eggs in a deli cup(no lid) and set the deli cup on top of moist sphagnum, inside a plastic container with a few airholes.
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Aaron Jul 15, 2014 01:22 AM

The female pos het albino spotted(middle pic) is a perfect example of a tangerine annulata and gorgeous.
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