I want to start by saying that Chris Huffman proved this trait out and deserves all the credit. He sent me one of the animals early on (prior to producing a super) and I've produced more of the morph and possibly a cross with a Spider. But so far neither of us could come up with a good name so I figured this was the easiest way to get some input.
Below is the story as well as some photos. What do you think should it be called??
Here's a photo of one of the 'Huffman' balls
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Here's the background story from Chris:
And a couple more photos of the morph with a Bumblebee.Quote:
Just for the history I'm going to call them Huffmans
I just happened to be on Fauna I believe and noticed a local ad and contacted the girl. She actually ended up working at one of the petstores I got feeders from so I ended up buying the original female and a male that I turned around and sold. I just assumed she was a normal, she had some nice coloring but nothing extreme.
At the time I had maybe a dozen animals so I bred her to my ghost male to make hets because I didn't have any het ghost females. It wasn't till that clutch hatched that I really wondered what was up. When all the babies were out it was pretty obvious that 4 of them were not like the other one or two (can't remember if the clutch was 5 or 6 right now). I kept 3 of the odd looking ones, and sent you [David Bellis] one odd looking one and one normal looking het. I raised up the babies and bred one of the 2 males back to the original female. If anything I kind of thought they were black pastels and I'd get a solid black snake.
What I got was 0.2 supers, 1.2 huffmans, and a normal or two. One of the supers was a twin with a normal in the same egg. It came out tiny, never fed on it's own, had a hard spot in it's belly around the umbilical cord, and eventually died. But the super that was in its own egg ate like a champ and is about 1400 grams. I put a couple different males in with her this season but haven't seen much action and didn't press the issue too much since she didn't hit 1500 grams.
The next season I bred the original female to a pin male, and one of the first gen females to one of the first gen males. From the pin breeding I produced 1 pin and 3 what I believe to be pin huffmans because of the color differences. I've still got all 3 of them. From the Huffman to Huffman breeding I got 1 super, 1 huffman, and 2 normals. This super never seemed quite right either. It moved funny sometimes and seemed to have trouble killing pinky/fuzzy rats. It too eventually died.
So over time Below is what I have produced from them. I still have all of them except the female I sent to you and the 2 supers that died.
0.1 Original female
Gen 1 (original female x ghost)
2.2 Huffmans het ghost
Normal het or two
Gen 2 (original female x Gen 1 male)
0.2 super (50% poss het ghost) - One super died
1.2 huffmans (50% poss het ghost)
Normal or two
Gen 3 Clutch 1 (original female x pin)
0.3 Pin mystery
1.0 pin
Normal or two
Gen 3 clutch 2 (gen 1 female x gen 1 male)
0.1 Super - Died
0.1 Huffman
2 Normals
I've bred the super some this season but like I said, I haven't seen a lot of action and haven't pushed her since she's small. I've also had one of the Gen 1 females with a Ghost male. She's never produced for me yet so she's quite large. I gave the original mom and the mother of Gen 3 clutch 2 the season off. I didn't really know what to put with them and they both took a while to get back on feed after laying so they didn't get back up as big as I'd want.
Think that's about all the detail I can really recall.
Chris
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Adult morph and Super form © Chris Huffman
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