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Once again while taking photographs today I found myself saying "These are the coolest snakes I have", and once again I realized that every pair I've acquired was because in some way they were the coolest.

This is a line of Andeans that Scott and Garret are working with...they refer to them as Bi-color for reasons I can not fathom... I mean.. I see three colors no matter how many times I count! Perhaps Scott or Garret will be so kind as to post some pics of the parents and siblings to show why I refer to them as striped.

In any case here's one of my last pair of milks...

Not evident in the photo are the red ventral scales on this snake... there's a fleck of black here and there but the ventrals are red, no signs of banding at all... barely evident is the line of white "stitching" along the dorsal and ventral scales... my eyes are drawn to it every time I look at this pair because it does look as if they were sewn together, and of course the high cross over on the black bands. Those black bands are intense... along the lines of the iridescent black of the L.t. gaigeae.

My thanks to Garret for allowing me to obtain a pair of them... and Scott for importing them for me... you couldn't do better than working with these two gentleman when it comes to adding to your Milk Snake collection... thank you again gentleman.

Gerry

Gerry, as usual-- very nice animals !!

The bicolored look is most evident when viewing the snake dorsally above. Yes, you can still see some red in the bicolored ones-- but mostly laterally, as the black bands have expanded mid dorsally to pinch off the red. Several from this line also appear more spotted or "bullseye" patterned with mostly red bellies. Then there are several that appear more "normal" looking with more complete banding.

I've attached a couple pics of litter mates from the bicolored one you posted. My breeders produced the partially striped individual and Gerrit's breeders produced the fully striped individual.

My breeder female is very similar to the fully striped 2013 animal that Gerrit produced. Gerry, if you still have that pic of my female, you're more than welcome to post it

Thanks,
Scott

Don't believe there is any need to post additional photos... the first one of your two says all that is needed. Striped individuals of this/that sub species are sort of common but I do not recall one where the dorsal stripes are white, black and then red. Sort of a small observation but why do Andeans start off with a white dorsal stripe while others start off with a red?

As always...thanks Scott

Gerry