What are peeps doing with Genetic Stripes nowadays?

Wow; these are gorgeous. I love patternless snakes, and snakes with full stripes, and this morph brings that together for me.

It is really funny that you mentioned Fred Kick; his shop is only about 45 minutes from me, and I was perusing his website last night! I got the pinstripe that I used to have, and the Blood that I have now, from him.

What are people doing with Gstripes these days?

Training them to eat Specters without success.

:)

I am about to join the GS world. I am getting this lovely male from Serenity Serpents. http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=32&de=982794

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Originally Posted by wendhend

I would also be tempted to try for some super lesser genetic stripes. I don't know if anyone has done that, but I would suspect it would look like typical BEL?

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It would probably look like a typical BEL but a sure fire way to produce one that you are certain is also a genetic stripe is obviously breeding 2 lesser GSs together. I personally see breeding value in that combo. I love lesser GSs and to have something that could produce 100% Lesser GSs and their combos is really cool IMO. I say go for it... :D

Wow, the lesser GS Are pretty!

What I want to see is an enchi genetic stripe! I would love to see the enchi pattern give some flair to the stripe!

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Originally Posted by zues

I just bought this little girl from Mike Bell Reptiles. She has a future date with a albino pied male. Pic courtesy of Mike Bell Reptiles.


http://i45.tinypic.com/2vacjma.jpg

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WOW.. That's probably my new favorite albino combo!

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Originally Posted by jinx667

Super Stripe is what has happened to G-stripe in the last few years.

I have never heard anything good about the Kick's and thus would never buy from them.

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I have never seen anything amiss when visiting Fred's shop. I bought a pinstripe from him about 4 years ago, and all of the snakes I was presented with to choose from were healthy and fat. Their store has a wild selection of critters that are all healthy. I was under the impression that the SPCA/case against them was because he kept thousands of snakes/herps in racks/tubs. That's common practice among breeders, as we know, but people who are not initiated into the hobby may think that we are warehousing our snakes into bad conditions by keeping them in racks. I've had to explain in the past to my family/friends why my snakes were in a rack, in "ugly" tubs rather than in big planted tanks. I figure that it was a case of misunderstanding; a snake that had not eaten in months (pretty normal with BPs) could've been viewed as being not-fed. Since Fred is in business now with healthy animals and the charges were dismissed, I don't have issue with him.

All the issues I have read have been with online transactions and shows. Do a BOI search of the Kick's on Fauna.

Either way, by all means buy from who you like. I personally will never buy from them, or anyone else that has such a reputation.

Here is our female G-Stripe!
http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/...pse0ce649d.jpg

Our main plan with her is Lesser/Butter G-Stripes, but we now would like to add either Spider, Pastel or Yellowbelly to the male we plan on picking up to breed with her.