New odd hatchling.

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Originally Posted by nixer

that snake bob had did have a few yellow scales.

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Yeah..Hahaha..A few...

Wouldn't know that by the pure white snake pictured on the cover of Reptiles magazine.

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Originally Posted by mason

@MarkS


But this is what i'm saying, they don't. Both lines produce white and blotched snakes but breeders have found the whiter the snake the more money some people wil pay and have therefore showcased these particular animals. The blochted ones have been selling for slightly less but are out there. I'm not saying they are any worse or anything.

I tried to explain that I'm not saying this snake is imperfect or undesirable, that is just not how the "posterchild" examples of this morph (BlackEL) is made out/has been made out to be.

As more and more people do fire x fire and BlackEl x fire they are finding that the "quality" or amount of whiteness is variable.

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You may be right about that. But if that is the case I personally would consider that a marketing blunder. When there is already a half a dozen ways of making a white snake, why wouldn't you celebrate the variability of the yellow blotching and be charging a premium for increased amounts of it? Pure white snakes are becoming more and more common all the time, whereas this snake that Dave just produced I would consider to be a rare and desirable animal.

I've already got a number of females picked out that tend to throw darker or higher orange babies that I can't wait to breed my sulfur to next year.

Yeah, I kind of agree with Mark. You can make a Lucy with probably half a dozen or more snakes, all being a bit different, why not embrace a snake that is not textbook and totally white. I will probably want a clean Lucy one day too, would make for a nice comparison tank at a show.

Dave

Nixer, you have any better pics of your Lucy? Does yours have the purple speckles?

Dave


I like yours by the way!