MALE Red Stripe!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

So, at the previous Hamburg show, some guys that always vend had brought me some garter snakes to look through (oregon red spots) and amidst all of the rather plain looking red spots. I scored two beautiful snakes. The first was a red stripe ordinoes male... he was kinda just in there with some red spots hiding! He was in shed so I didn't know how he'd turn out but I took the risk and brought him home. I am really glad I did. He's a perfect 10!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/e6825a2a.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/4cd2772f.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/59a43664.jpg

The only other snake that caught my eye was a beautiful three striped concinnus. I call her my "infernalis phase" LOL. She is stunning! And a real doll on top of that. She acts like one of my marcianus, she does everything she can to get to the top of the tank and climb onto my hand... begging for a snack!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/026-1.jpg

And last, a photo of the Radiant and beautiful (and evil) Carmen.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/024-1.jpg

[snakehill]

Amazing!!!!!

[guidofatherof5]

Good looking group.
Love that Northwestern(T.ordinoides)

[RedSidedSPR]

Wow, those are awesome! Love the ordinoes! And the last one.

Your snakes are always so.... beautiful. idk, maybe it's the flowers you pose them in :D

[snakehill]

Thanks Steve!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Wow, those are awesome! Love the ordinoes! And the last one.

Your snakes are always so.... beautiful. idk, maybe it's the flowers you pose them in :D


The snakes make the flowers look better :)

[RedSidedSPR]

Flowers suck if there's not a snake in them :D

[d_virginiana]

Those are some really good looking snakes! And those photos are great... How do you convince them to pose like that?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Those are some really good looking snakes! And those photos are great... How do you convince them to pose like that?

I'm a parseltongue. ;)

[RedSidedSPR]

yeah, didn't you know that, Lora?

[RdubSnider]

Nice look snakes. Love the erythristic

[Hazeldarc]

wow their awesome

[RicMartin]

Very nice, congrats!

[charles parenteau]

Very nice snake Shannon !=)

[kibakiba]

Shannon, it's okay to admit that you aren't a parseltongue, you've just spent sooooo much time with your snakes that you are quite "one with the snake" ;) :p

[RedSidedSPR]

What, like she's the only one? :D

[Plissken]

Beautiful snakes Shannon. I love the red stripe.

[Hornets23]

Lovely snakes shannon!

[ConcinusMan]

So, at the previous Hamburg show, some guys that always vend had brought me some garter snakes to look through (oregon red spots) and amidst all of the rather plain looking red spots. I scored two beautiful snakes. The first was a red stripe ordinoes male... he was kinda just in there with some red spots hiding! He was in shed so I didn't know how he'd turn out but I took the risk and brought him home. I am really glad I did. He's a perfect 10!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/e6825a2a.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/4cd2772f.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/59a43664.jpg



Miss Piggy's future boyfriend?

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg163/scaled.php?server=163&filename=misspiggy007large.jpg&res=medium

[RedSidedSPR]

I thought the same thing. ITS MISS PIGGY!!! Only not...

[Starling96]

I was thinking that also lol

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

It turns out this IS her future boyfriend. Miss Piggy is coming to live here within the next month or so. :) it will be so interesting to see how tru they breed. I heard ordinoes throw weird babies that you don't expect sometimes

[RedSidedSPR]

Awesome!! Glad Miss Piggy went to someone... capable. Can't wait to see the babies

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

This male is too perfect of a match for me NOT to get her. they are literally like... Twins! And I also have a son of hers, that pretty blue and red boy.

[RedSidedSPR]

Oh, yeah i think i know who you're talking about...

[Didymus20X6]

I've wondered how Parseltongue works when snakes don't have external ears and thus cannot hear. I've also wondered how they can wink if they have no eyelids. The first I can explain by way of it being a magic telepathy-based language. The second makes no sense at all.

As for the Basilisk, I just figured it was an aberrant legless lizard. Either that, or it was tracking by sensing vibrations, not by true hearing.

Either way, I think Rowlings could have benefited from a cursory study of snakes before making them a major point of her stories.

[ConcinusMan]

It turns out this IS her future boyfriend. Miss Piggy is coming to live here within the next month or so. :) it will be so interesting to see how tru they breed. I heard ordinoes throw weird babies that you don't expect sometimes

Part of that is retained sperm or multiple sires and of course there is of course, that one little thing called polymorphism...

It's not just polymorphism as seen by looking all the different forms within a population. It's genetic polymorphism. In that sense they all "breed true", it's just that the phenotype of the offspring cannot necessarily be determined by looking at the phenotype of the parents due to the effects of epistasis.

Epistasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistasis)

Male pattern baldness shows up nowhere looking back several generations in my family. All grandparents had full head of hair into their 80's. Now here we are, my brother and I both, were going bald in our 20's and now, forget it. No hair.:rolleyes: My point is, we inherited it, unseen. Sneaky. You never know how the effects of the parents genes, when combined, will be expressed in the phenotype of the offspring.

So yes, sometimes breeding northwesterns is like a box of chocolates...

You can breed for a certain phenotype over many, many generations and increase the odds of getting that phenotype but you'll never breed the polymorphism completely out of them.

[kibakiba]

That is what's fun about them....
For example, if there was no polymorphism, I might not have had a baby with a bluegreen face. :D