What are peeps doing with Genetic Stripes nowadays?

I have always loved the gen stripes, and still do. I have been out of the game for a few years, and am wondering what's new with GS combos. Feel free to include photos with your replies; I love those!

I am in love with their patternless sides and coloration. I may or may not have my eye on one for sale now ;)

This site does many stripe stuff.

http://www.kicksballs.com/#3137

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Originally Posted by Mr Oni

This site does many stripe stuff.

http://www.kicksballs.com/#3137

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Ok new breeder to stalk... I mean watch.

If that is Fred Kick I have not heard much good about him personally, but I do enjoy his lesser G-stripes. I'm working with a Pastal G-stripe Male, and a Super Pastel G-stripe female. Plan to work my lesser into the breedings later and make some Pastel Lesser het stripes to use on my super pastel stripe female. Not too much is being done though in general. G-stripe is such an underrated mutation.

http://reptileexperts.com/IMG_3094.jpg
Female

http://reptileexperts.com/IMG_3054.jpg
Male

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.

I didn't produce my first stripes until last year. This year I'm breeding a stripe male that is also 25% chance het VPI axanthic to an albino female that is 33% chance het stripe. Really hoping to produce a stripe 100% het albino even though the chance of het axanthic will be watered down to 12.5%. Might eventually get to a snow stripe.

Sittin' and waiting for my het genetic stripe female to lay some eggs and hopefully give me some actually genetic stripe babies for some future projects... It's a beautyful morph, but it seems like there only a few that produce them..

I also love genetic stripes, especially when they have prominent and complete stripes. In 2012 I produced a really nice lesser genetic stripe male. I think his mother is gravid again now. This season I am also working on producing pastel genetic stripes. Next season I may be able to combine those and get lesser pastel genetic stripes if my pastel het genetic stripe female is up to laying another clutch, and my lesser genetic stripe male is mature enough for breeding. 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?

I've always liked genetic stripes but never found any combos that I really liked until I saw this guy. Hopefully, I'll have more in a few months.

Pastel Yellow Belly Genetic Stripe
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...lYBGStripe.jpg

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

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.

I'm doing a few things with it this year. I have Cinny Lesser het Stripe x Stripe and Woma het Stripe, Woma het Stripe x Stripe, and Mojave Red Stripe x Pastel Stripe (Can't wait to see more Red Devil combos)!

You should also check out Exotics by Nature. Sean has done some awesome stuff with the Genetic Stripe Gene! Pastel Calico Stripe, Pewter Lesser Stripe, Enchi Lesser Stripe and so on!

That's a beauty there, C+H! I love the complete stripe.

I have put the deposit down on the GS from Serenity Serpents. I am counting the days until he arrives :))

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I have always loved the gen stripes, and still do. I have been out of the game for a few years, and am wondering what's new with GS combos. Feel free to include photos with your replies; I love those!

I am in love with their patternless sides and coloration. I may or may not have my eye on one for sale now ;)

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Nice to see you back Gin what combos did you decide to pursue with your new acquisition ?

Thanks man; I definitely remember you from years past here :)
I know that I am going about it in a less-than-ideal way; I should've gotten a female GS to grow up, but I did not have the added funds and this male I am getting struck me in a "must buy" fashion.

I am hoping to get a subadult het-GS of some type, female, soonish. Not sure what; some possibilities are pastel or spider. I have always loved Spider genetics, and producing them in years past was one of the most exciting things of my life. (I know, I am weird; lol.)

I would breed the future GS het to the guy I am getting, and go from there. I really, really like the butter GS's, and butters, in general. Maybe eventually go for butter GS and super butters (BEL) because these are both snakes that I really like the looks of. For the time being, I am getting a subadult normal tomorrow, and plan to grow her up and breed her presumably with the GS asap; maybe not this year if the growth isn't there.

So glad to be back into BPs. I do have a ghost stripe Blood with a full backstripe that I have fancied breeding with the GS, to try for Superballs. I am still researching all of that though, and not 100% sure that I want to do that. Not morally against hybrids, and I would get them microchipped if I were to sell them. That's pretty farfetched though.

My short-term goals are to maybe also get a het GS spider or pastel to put into the mix. It feels so good to be planning snakey stuff again!

I like how excited you are to be working with a morph that gets overlooked because of the SS stuff. I think GSs are really cool and under rated IMO and I do intend to incorporate a small project into my breeding plans in the future. Congrats on the new pick up I look forward to seeing your GS project progression! :gj:

Thanks! I am stoked. It is a bit daunting to see where everyone has progressed since I have been out of the game, and to rebuild some sort of a collection. But I want to. I am looking at it in this way: it'll be fun to get new acquisitions and start from scratch with also having the knowledge from before, of how to build an incubator, care for eggs, etc.

I am trying not to focus too much on what I've sold/lost, and more on what I can acquire. And glancing around the house looking for things to sell for snake funds. LoL!