Quote Originally Posted by frostyftw View Post
I was going to breed NWs. I can wait extra time if needed. And I was hoping for at least one like the female. I don't expect them all to look the same.

I was hoping to produce this color:



Red, Black, and Orange.. I can't see if it shows the colors well or not, the colors on my monitor are really bad. You can't see it at all because the colors are backwards of what they should be. At least for me, that is. By the way, I pulled that picture off of my Photobucket account. In fact, that's the female I want to breed.
I can see it just fine. Not all NW's have lateral stripes but when an orange or red striped one has lateral stripes, they're almost always a different color (lighter, cream colored). This particular snake's color/pattern combo is actually fairly common so chances are pretty good you can produce them especially if you match the pair and if they are from the same population. Babies won't be born with the red coloring though. That comes in gradually when they are months old so you'll have to keep all the babies for 6-12 months to get any idea what color they are.

I caught this huge girl in Vancouver, WA. She was 2.5 feet and the biggest northwestern I've ever caught. I traded her off to Don Belnap but she wasn't in the best of health and she was old and didn't live long. Same as yours though, pretty much. She had babies. Maybe Don still has them? I dunno.