How are "my" snakes doing guys?

[kibakiba]

It's kind of cute how they kind of sync up with the shedding
Embers such a sweet little boy. He hung out on my chest for a little while after the pictures.

[ConcinusMan]

Never had that happen. At any given time, some have just shed, some are going into shed, some are in the process of shedding. All stages present in the collection at any moment.

[kibakiba]

They've shed at the same time 3 times since I've gotten them. None of my other snakes do that. I just happen to notice things a tad bit more than most people would.. Thank my ADHD . I wasn't meaning that they purposly shed at the same time, or theres a reason they shed at the same time... but sometimes they do go opaque at the exact same time, I probably just stare at them enough to notice that it's always them that do it, none of my others have It'd be cool if everyone went into shed at the same time... Silky soft snakies, yay!

[RedSidedSPR]

His dad was very blue anery. Still, he seems to be holding onto his normal color. Sure wish I knew for sure what's going on with the blue anery's. I think maybe some, even though they are blue, are hets. And others, also blue, are homozygous. I suspect this because I know another guy bred anery to anery and got both kinds, and a few hypoery's. One of his blues must have been het, the other homo. Just no way to know which one is which (het or homo) until they breed. Obviously the blue male I paired with a normal, isn't the "super" form. He was probably just a het and so I got all normals.

It seems to be a weird and unpredictable trait. Beginning to think Joe is right and it's just polymorphism. But if it is, why do they only exist in a fraction of concinnus' range? Hmmm...

Yeah he ain't changing. Normal looking as they get. Do you think he's like a het for blue/anery or something? If so I'll breed him at some point!

[ConcinusMan]

Perhaps not. I'm still thinking that hets and homos look the same - anery. But then again there's plenty of hypoery's around there and all babies I've ever found were hypo or normal. Never found an anery smaller than 15 inches or so. Maybe it is just polymorphism. In other words, whether you breed two anerys or anery to normal, the outcome is probably unpredictable. It's going to take a few generations of breeding them in captivity before we know for sure. Can't judge how the gene works with just one breeding. We need to do it multiple times.

[Chondro788]

Hey Richard,
The snakes I got from you are all doing well. The Red Iowa Albino radix is in the fridge cooling down so he will be ready for the ladies. Big Momma is eating EVERYTHING I put in front of her, and still seems to be enjoying her long life. The pastel checkered is still feeding strong, I hope to breed her this spring to a male Pastel from Brad. And the two little radix are fine as well. I will try and get some pics soon of the ones not in brumation.

[ConcinusMan]

Amy's first brumation. I hope it goes well. Thanks for the update.