Post by vanderkm on Jul 31, 2007 16:16:01 GMT -5
Had some rather unexpected hatchlings appear in a clutch late last week and the original breeder of the creamsicles has confirmed that there may have been a bloodred (diffused) corn in the background of one of my male creamsicles. This has put my breeding projects ahead of schedule by a huge leap. I bred this male creamsicle to his daughter (from a pure great plains ratsnake) to establish whether she was het hypo - the male produced cinnamons for me last year
I didn't get any hypos, but was really suspicious when I saw these hatchlings appear
the rootbeers - showing reduced head pattern, diffused side pattern and clear belly suggestive of bloodred
and some intensely orange clutchmates
with clear bellies
top view - in shed in these photos - were taken about 4 days after the hatchling shots above
though some have remnants of pattern typical of het blood
top view
and the center clear zone on the belly of a rootbeer associated with het blood
and the best rootbeer - definitely diffused
belly
top view - can see the diffusion on his sides
I hope to breed the mother of these to a bloodred male next year to prove her out, but she has a reduced head and belly pattern that I attributed to the great plains ratsnake parent. Now it appears very probable that she is het blood (diffused) and I have my BloodOranges and BloodBeers a generation or two before I expected to get them. Can hardly wait for these guys to shed - most of them are already eating,
thanks for looking and thanks again to Ryan W. (Scales Zoo) for importing these guys and letting them out of his collection - they have produced some outstanding hatchlings for me.
mary v.
I didn't get any hypos, but was really suspicious when I saw these hatchlings appear
the rootbeers - showing reduced head pattern, diffused side pattern and clear belly suggestive of bloodred
and some intensely orange clutchmates
with clear bellies
top view - in shed in these photos - were taken about 4 days after the hatchling shots above
though some have remnants of pattern typical of het blood
top view
and the center clear zone on the belly of a rootbeer associated with het blood
and the best rootbeer - definitely diffused
belly
top view - can see the diffusion on his sides
I hope to breed the mother of these to a bloodred male next year to prove her out, but she has a reduced head and belly pattern that I attributed to the great plains ratsnake parent. Now it appears very probable that she is het blood (diffused) and I have my BloodOranges and BloodBeers a generation or two before I expected to get them. Can hardly wait for these guys to shed - most of them are already eating,
thanks for looking and thanks again to Ryan W. (Scales Zoo) for importing these guys and letting them out of his collection - they have produced some outstanding hatchlings for me.
mary v.
