Garcia Family Update

I hatched a new baby of a morph I'm calling Garcia:

http://snakemorphs.home.comcast.net/...BREM01_med.jpg

The Garcias share some characteristics with chocolates but I'm not sure they are the same, especially not having seen the super Garcia yet, so I'm not just calling them chocolate to avoid possible confusion later.

This 2009 girl reminds me of the 2007 daughter I got when Daniel Garcia proved my founding female on a breeding loan.

http://snakemorphs.home.comcast.net/..._med_2year.jpg

Unfortunately the 2009 is a female and I really need a male to breed back to mom some day. I found mom at a pet store years ago but she didn't start producing until 2007.

http://snakemorphs.home.comcast.net/...ed_12years.jpg

I also have a Garcia Mojave from a breeding loan with Marshall Van Thorre in 2008.

http://snakemorphs.home.comcast.net/...d_11months.jpg

Nice!

Daniel

LOVE that stripe on the last one. Very Beautiful snake

They are looking amazing! I love the new baby, and the mojo garcia!

Thanks for the update! :)

Garcia seems to be the first all female morph. :P

Good luck on getting a male to help prove the super out!

w0w what a find at a pet store, that's crazy cool. AWESOME new morph :D

but but.. travis wants one =D

They look great Randy. Let me know if you ever want to send one my way. I can think of plenty of stuff to do with one.

There is one Garcia male from the 2008 clutch. Marshall Van Thorre has it. It looks more like the typical chocolate pictures I've seen. I don't really know much about chocolates but I've seen a tendency toward this redhead thing in mom and some of her nicest daughters. I do have an 08 Mojave son that I have some slight hope might be a subtle combo (nothing as obvious as his sister pictured above) but unfortunately he didn't produce this year so will have to wait for next year to find out.

This 09 clutch was really terrible and I'm sure it's all my fault. First of all I didn't feed her as well as I would have liked and she only produced 11 eggs down from 14 last year for Marshall. Also I think my new snake room wasn't distributing the heat up to her cage like I thought and I don't think she was warm enough pre lay. Three of the eggs where outright duds, two had no veins when I first candled a couple days after laying and then two went bad part way through incubation. Of the four full term eggs the three out so far (only one Garcia) all failed to suck in their umbilical properly and a fourth is still in the egg (day 63, but all of them where 61 or later) not sticking it's head out and I think dead (but I thought that about the last of the other three yesterday morning so will probably wait a couple more days before cutting it all the way open).

So, live and learn and I hope to give her conditions for a return to a much better hatch rate next year (2007 was 8 of 9 - all female - and 2008 was I think 9 of 14 if I remember right, both out on breeding loans). I tried to give this big girl a big cage but that gave extra surface area to loose heat so will heat her differently this winter and spring when the background temp drops again.

randy those are amazing!!!! congrats