finally....new pics

[ssssnakeluvr]

alright.....I know everyone has been chomping at the bit waiting.....time for some new photos. I have been busy with working on the kitchen and now finally got a chance to get some photos done....
first one....eastern blacknecks...just got them. 2 yr old male, and a huge (33") female
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3018-2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3019-2.jpg
the yellow came out real bright...is more of an orange color
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3012-2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3014-4.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3015-2.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

female snow plains....thanks to Jeff Benfer!!!
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3004-1.jpg
nebraska albino...thanks to Joe Peck
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3007-1.jpg

iowa albino....thanks to Joe Peck

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3046.jpg
iowa albino, thanks to friend Janine Siteman, is a relative of Cariad....is showing a little orange on the side...hard to see tho
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3043-1.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

light phase plains...thanks to Steve (guidofatherof5)
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3020-2.jpg
and a male light phase....also from Steve
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3025.jpg
melanistic ordinoides
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3027-1.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3028-2.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

and finally...big trade with Shannon......
brown water snake
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3034.jpg
hypo florida banded water snake, this one is darker than the others...and is a pig!
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3038.jpg
eastern....Potter co, pennsylvania....I call her the potter county pig!!!!
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3040-1.jpg
red stripe ribbon...couldn't get a pic of the female...too jumpy..has a white spot on her head...
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3048.jpg

last pic for now....my Schuett albino eastern....sucking down rat pups like crazy!!
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/DSCF3030-1.jpg

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

wow, Don! they all look really great! I am glad that potter county girl turned into such a pig for you! By the way, the banded water snake you pictured is actually a normal! Haha, the other 3 are hypo's, and that one was one of the only normals I had born. I also kept one of the normals for myself!

[guidofatherof5]

Great looking snakes, Don.
Thanks for posting a photo of my kids. That female radix is a special girl. She will want to be out with someone all the time. She likes people.

[thinkmore]

Did you have Christmas early or something? Beautiful snakes and fantastic pics.

[drache]

Don - you have way too many
how about you emulate St Martin and give me half (I'm good on coats, thanks)
really - all I would want is the two sirtalis and the melanistic ordinoides

[dashnu]

Nice Don, way to grow the collection :D

[GarterGeek]

Beautiful snakes! - All of them. I especially like the brown water snake.

Is it just me, or is there something peculiar about the eye on the eastern blackneck in the 4th picture?

[gregmonsta]

Very nice indeed :D

[jitami]

Awesome additions, Don!

[Mommy2many]

Very nice group, Don!

[ConcinusMan]

Hey! finally someone else who has found (or owned) a melanistic ordinoides. I collected two, yes, two of them in one particular population that I know of. Seen many more. Good news is, I drove by that spot a few days ago, and it's still untouched, undeveloped. I have high hopes of finding one this spring. Yours looks exactly like the last one I found, faint stripe and everything.

[ssssnakeluvr]

cool! I need a female for him..... :rolleyes:

[ConcinusMan]

Believe me, I'm thinking of you guys. Any burgandy/purple ordinoides, melanistic, high red, or otherwise just fantastic looking, that I find, I'll post pics and possibly send them your way. Going to have to be patient though, earliest it could possibly happen is march 2010. But hey! even if you bred him to a normal, wouldn't the offspring have a good chance of being het for hypermelanism (melanistic) or however the heck you say that? Who knows how many females in this particular population might be het for that, being how I've seen so many melanistics in that area.

[ssssnakeluvr]

if he was bred with a normal one, they would be hets (if it's recesive)

[ConcinusMan]

Well, yeah, that's what I was getting at. Something like 50% hets, I think. I do wonder if it's recessive like albinos. Seems logical that it would be. Sure have seen a lot of them in this one particular population though.