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[xanaxez]

actually yes, i posted asa good guy for the only fact that the snake was healthy and was all he said she was and the fact that he appoligized and said he never uses usps and always uses heat packs but it was a spare of the moment thing and that he didnt have a car so he had to hitch a ride to ship her and fedex is a good distance from him. taking that into consideration and talking to a few people he has actually sold to and done business with before after this was posted on here, they all said the same thing all of there animals arrived fedex and with heat and that he was a very good guy to deal with. he kept communication with me at all times and everything a good saler would do other then the way he shipped her to me. he admitted it was wrong to have shipped her usps but thats the only possible way he could have got her shipped before it got cold here due to him having no transportation of his own now. so as far as a good guy yes he is for many of reason just a bad shipping decission. i know alot of people do it and get away with it and try there luck but i just think it should be done without having that to worry about.

[xanaxez]

ok now i see the confusion. in the original post for some reason i put it as a hcq stripped tiger. then later down i said it was a just a stripped coastal. ok the snake in question is a stripped coastal not a tiger. but im still not understand the remarks on the orange tiger or claiming of new morphs. the original is my fault colin and i do appoligise for that. assuming i was thinking about my hcq tiger as i was also posting this. the one in question though is just a stripped carpet produced by anthony caponetta. so it was my mistake that i had it as a tiger and im guessing that what you were refering to all though i mentioned nothing about it being an orange tiger.

[Colin Vestrand]

let me lay this out for ya...

a tiger is a coastal carpet morph that has full striping head to tail... for someone to call a carpet that is not striped, a 'tiger' seems pretty misleading to me. second, names like 'orange', 'citrus line', etc and referring to them as new morphs in ads is pretty much dishonest in my opinion... not trying to bust anyone out but that is my opinion, and the opinion of a lot of other carpet people.

[xanaxez]

by that statement in itself colin is also saying that 1 a tiger that has breaks in his stripe is not a tiger because it isnt a full stripe from head to tail.2 who is all of these others you speak about? i know its not yasser,will,or anthony caponetta, who are very reputable breeders that also do not agree that all tigers are striped lol so who would they be? id liek to talk to them myself and find out why something wouldnt be a tiger because it doesnt have a solid stripe. first off they were names after Tigers and tigers doesnt have solid stripes persay. i would like more information on this myself. im not fighting over it or trying to pick on you its just an issue no one can come up with an answer on. if you think about it then that would mean what you guys call an albino carpet which is white and yellow would be in correct. a real albino would be pure white not cross faded colors if we wanted to get technical on it.

[xanaxez]

here you go colin. read this.

Genetics
For simplicity's sake, consider the Tiger a co-dominant mutation. However, the striping is extremely variable much like the saddles on the Jaguar carpet are variable. The main reason the stripe varies on Tiger offspring is because it can be influenced by the non-tiger parent. Some hobbyists automatically assume that every snake carrying the Tiger gene must have a perfect dorsal stripe, but this is not the case. Sometimes the pattern of the non-Tiger parent works against the striping in Tiger offspring, similar to the way we see an occasional banded Jaguar. However, when two animals carrying the gene are bred together, I believe a number of visibly striped Tigers will be produced.

I believe that breeding Tiger to Tiger produces offspring with increased or more complete striping. My 2002 male Tiger was produced by breeding a male Tiger to a female Tiger. His dorsal stripe is broken in places, but the striping is generally very uniform, even along the sides. In the future, we may hear hobbyists start referring to these animals as "Super Tigers".

[Colin Vestrand]

i'm very familiar with them, thanks...

i stand by my original statement, but i'm not going to argue with you.

[xanaxez]

yes your opinion is that of your own so we can desmiss this. but if you would like further information go to nick mutton and will leary also. they have been trying to explain this same thing to people that think tigers are only stripped for years. thats 6 very highly reputable breeders that has tried to make this clear and yet still we have people with little knowledge claiming else wise. but this post will end now because you have your own beliefs even though some of the biggest and well known dealers/breeders says else wise.

[Colin Vestrand]

yes, are you sure you know how a co-dom morph works?
i've chatted with several of those 'big breeders' on multiple occasions over the years, so i really have nothing more to say to you.

[m00kfu]

if you think about it then that would mean what you guys call an albino carpet which is white and yellow would be in correct. a real albino would be pure white not cross faded colors if we wanted to get technical on it.

Actually, a pure white would be leucistic. Albino isn't the lack of color, it's the lack of melanin.

[littleindiangirl]

Not to mention, there are several types of albinism.