finally....new pics

[gregmonsta]

Very nice indeed

[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.....

[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.