Gee that's just lovely!! I am hoping that this wonderful specimen doesn't die before producing offspring (much like the leucistic Eastern Diamondback Bill Love found-if I remember correctly)--that would be a tragedy and this wonderful morph would disappear from existence. The guy who sold this animal would have made much more money from selling ruber neonates with the piebald gene than he ever would by selling that individual piebald ruber to the collector who paid the unreal price and then selfishly hindered it from producing offspring. I just hope this animal is still alive and hopefully the collector who has it can be convinced (or conned) into allowing it to breed thus preserving this morph for future generations. Time will tell, I guess.

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• piedruber rattle snake - boacraze, Mon Mar 23 05:41:31 2009
• here you go... - kylefrost, Mon Mar 23 18:32:11 2009
• RE: here you go... - remreps, Tue Mar 24 13:36:51 2009
• So..... - Eastbayexotics, Sat May 2 11:06:36 2009
• RE: piedruber rattle snake - yautja901, Sat Mar 28 14:29:10 2009
• The story I heard..... - Rich G.cascabel, Sat Apr 4 10:22:31 2009
• RE: The story I heard..... - yautja901, Sun Apr 5 12:05:20 2009
• RE: The story I heard..... - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sun Apr 5 20:10:02 2009
• RE: The story I heard..... - TexasReptiles, Mon Apr 6 19:58:44 2009
• well, there still may be some hope ..... - Rich G.cascabel, Mon Apr 6 14:50:54 2009
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