John,

Thanks for taking your time to answer my question. In mandarin ratsnakes I also look for a light groundcolour with a minimum of red tipping. I'm on the list for a female from Stefan's second line and this line seems to produce dominantly red animals, but this red is combined with an insane amount of yellow (you've seen the pictures on Stefan's website, right?), wich makes for outstanding animals. Nevertheless, I would still like to acquire a specimen with no to very little red in the future. I think that you Americans have (thanks to Kamuran Tepedelen) some outstanding lines of Sichuan mandarin ratsnakes with bright yellow colours and little to no red tipping. We really should get some U.S. stock over here; the Sichuan mandarin ratsnakes I've seen offered here tend to become quite dark as adults.

I really hope that I can get a nice photo of my male very soon. I also got something new this year: I acquired a CB 2006 male broad-banded red bambooratsnake recently.

Regards,

Bert

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