Meet the Screwball

[snake lab]

Heres the story on this animal. I got an imported gravid female back in 2006. She laid 7 eggs and when it was time to cut eggs i was on egg number 4 and after 3 normals i was like what is this. All i saw was a white and yellow looking sheen with pattern. As i cut a little bigger this animal was weird lookin. I put the egg back and cut the rest. All normals the rest they way. So i went back to this funny lookin guy and wanted so bad to yank it out but i let them be. About 5 days later i woke up to 3 out of the egg and this little thing half way out. Then about 12 hrs later he was out. I was amazed by what he looked like. He kinda looked like a super pastel but he had that white look to him like bumblebees have when they hatch. Fast forward 6 months. He was really showing signs at this point of a weird looking pastel. I had a couple other breeders who had followed his story offering me crazy money for him but i knew i had to hold on to him. Fast forward to fall of 2009 i cycled him through 4 normal girls and after a failed attempt in breeding the year before i was sure he would breed. nothing took. So last fall i put him with one girl and kept him with her and finally he bred. April 15th of this year i had 5 eggs to cut from him. First egg normal, second egg normal, third egg a weird looking pastel looking thing similar to what he was as a baby, 4 th egg normal, then jackpot, egg number 5 had an animal i have never seen. It hardly had any pattern to it. But it had the wied yellows in it like he has. If you can imagine a sterling that is yellow thats what it looked like kinda like a fader thing going on i dont know. So the animals come out of the eggs and this weird baby isnt doing good. Had good size but very lathargic. I called my vet who buys rodents from me and he said he would come over the next day. Well it didnt make it through the night. I was so friggin dumbstruck and just destroyed. So now is the time to try it again and this time im going big. Im putting him to 4 girls. A 3500 gram normal, a 2400 gram pastel, a 1800 gram spider and a 2000 gram yellowbelly. Since i am convinced he is something special i am going all out with him to try and see what his deal is. So he has been coined the screwball and i hope to make a mark with him. Sorry for the long story but i am so emotionally invested in him. Here he is[IMG][/IMG]
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[AK907]

Handsome boy. Looks like a lot like a pastel. Belly shot? Can you post pics of the baby?

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Do you have any more pictures? Any pictures of the baby that died? From what you have shown so far it looks like a normal pastel that has just darkened in some spots more then others... Which is pretty common.

[snake lab]

Its most certain a pastel of some sort but theres something else going on with it. And the fact it was produced from an import. And it wasnt an import from captive breeding it was a true bush grabbed gravid female so worst case scenario its a fresh line pastel. And no way id post a pic of the baby until know whats going on with the animal. Ive been in the game along time and have seen what happens when a pic gets out and people start runnin to conclusions. Dont know if you remember but a while back in 2002 and the ruppel pastel thing blew up all over the net or recentlly the chatter about the flatline. Im NOT in any way claiming genetic or anything else. Im just posting the story behind the animal posted. I hope ya understand i just dont want to be that guy that starts calling genetics before its proven thats all. Too many people have done that in the past with dinkers. And this may be just that but my experience tells me theres more to the puzzle

[AaronP]

Not to be a douche but you let the cat out of the bag, you might as well not say anything at all if you won't post anymore info or pictures.

[DemmBalls]

It just looks like a reduced pattern pastel to me. Nice snake though and a new line would be nice.

[snake lab]

I posted all the info on the animal. Why would i post a picture of a one of a kind baby so somebody else can run with it and say they produced it? This has happened in the past. Im not gonna stir that pot till i know what im dealing with if anything at all. I still have the baby vacumm sealed in the freezer.

[CatandDiallo]

^ Watermarks on your pictures.

[Drewp]

What about him as a baby or the baby that looked like him, not the frozen one. Who cares if someone stupid says they produced it, they don't have a specimen to back it up. Am I missing something?

The whole thing with the Flatline is only going to help Ralph garner even more interest about it, no?

Since when is publicity a bad thing for a snake breeder?

Not trying to be a penis, I am actually wondering what the benefit of trying to keep it a secret would be.

[devildog_dk]

Could just be a new line but the most you can do is try to prove him out yea?