Boomerang (You go girl)

[i_heart_sneakie_snakes]

She is lovely. I can't wait to see these babies too Yay babies!!!

[guidofatherof5]

If you think this is a photo from last night............ you'd be wrong.
This is from tonight. They are back at it.
I was able to get some video which I will post later.

[EasternGirl]

Beautiful snakes....looking forward to seeing the babies!

[gregmonsta]

Eager breeders

[guidofatherof5]

Sorry the video quality isn't there. I didn't have my HD camcorder available.

[ConcinusMan]

I know this might seem like a stupid question since I've asked this before about other snakes you've produced but is there any chance that some of these red radixes will make it off the ranch some day or should we just call them "bigfoot"? Sadly, not many to be found available and as a result, they are still priced higher than albinos and snows, even for WC reds. The only exception seems to be if you buy babies not showing red, and take a gamble.

I know I'm risking ticking people off again by saying this but it's kinda tough to get excited about a good number of these finally being produced in captivity if the breeder intends to keep them all to himself.

[guidofatherof5]

My intent is not to keep all of them. I do want to produce something with red and not a roll of the dice. For this reason I will keep them longer.
I will be glad to see some of my red radixes out in the world when they are finally produced.

[ConcinusMan]

Of course you definitely need to keep them long enough to see how they color up. That would be very nice to produce a line of them that have offspring that turn red reliably. Seems to be rather hit and miss with the bloodlines available now. Even if they breed two parents with the red gene, many of the offspring fail to turn red. Also, I have long suspected that the same gene is not necessarily responsible for the various red radixes out there. I think there's several different types of red ones, or at least red ones out there for which different genes are responsible for their color. I think people are breeding together whatever reds they can get, and in some cases, the same gene is not responsible, making red offspring an unreliable outcome.

[guidofatherof5]

We work with what we have.

[ConcinusMan]

Does anyone know if breeding two reds like Steve has done here, sometimes result in offspring that do not color up even as adults? Just wondering. I do know that many breeders end up taking a wait and see attitude with offspring born to red parents but I'm not really sure of the details of those breedings. Not sure if they were pure red to red breedings like these two.

Can we count on red offspring from a mating like this?