Re: Yellow bellies? weird stripe babies?
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Originally Posted by
yzguy
that would be awesome, I still can't really tell very well, with so many color variations, I've seen normals that look more yellow on the sides.
what do you think about the male adult? seems the consensus is that he is not.
The mother is without a doubt yellow belly. After looking at the pics again I am actually unsure about babies 1 and 3. They do scream YB but the belly is different. Baby number 2 is YB. YB does not mean that they have yellow bellies or even yellow sides. YB can be picked out by their speckled pattern next to the belly running the belly length and most have a head spot. The speckled pattern is much more pronounced and noticable on hatchlings and young snakes. As adults it can be a little harder to notice.
Not sure what your male is. He is not a YB. He could be a specter. He has some of the markings/looks. Baby 1 and 3 also have them. You should have cut open the bad eggs and taken pics of the dead babies. Could be you just didnt hit on a super stripe. I would do the same pairing again. You may be surprised.
Re: Yellow bellies? weird stripe babies?
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Originally Posted by
TessadasExotics
You should have cut open the bad eggs and taken pics of the dead babies.
2 more hatched and died in the incubator, I was pissed at the time and did not think to take pics. They did have full stripes and looked a lot like #3. The other 2 eggs I did cut open, but were not even formed enough to see any pattern.
I keep going back on forth on what I want to do with these, and noting real solid on what they may be. I got a lot more interest in them that I was expecting.
Turns out the non-stripe one is female and the 2 stripes are males.
Several local people tell me to keep them all to see what happens, but I just can’t help thinking that even if it is genetic and reproducible, I’m not sure it would be worth all that much (other types of stripes I see for $5-600). So far my best offer is a male breeder Spider YB and a hatchling male ivory for #2. I’m not sure I can pass that up….
so I think I'm keeping 1 and 3 and either keeping 2 or making that trade.
Next year I’ll put the mom and dad together again, and see what happens. then the year after
Re: Yellow bellies? weird stripe babies?
Re: Yellow bellies? weird stripe babies?
Re: Yellow bellies? weird stripe babies?
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Originally Posted by
beartg
funny you posted that.... I got the mom and dad from Amir about 5 years ago. (they were different sizes, so they were not clutch mates, but now that I think about it, they could have been related.)
So far Spector or Harlequin have been mentioned as to what the dad could be, but I don't see a lot of info as to what you could bread them with to prove them. Like breed 2 TB and get ivories to prove YB.
