Alabama locality
I hope to eventually make sure the Alabama Corns become as well known as Miami's. I know a couple people that have worked with or do work with the Alabama locality Corns.
After seeing Mica, an unknown aged (adult) female WC Alabama, I got hooked on them in the first place. So I told Walter, that if he had any more Alabama's he wanted to let go of, to let me know. He had a 1.1 pair that were offspring of Mica's, from an unknown (wild) male. Mica was gravid when she was caught, & he ended up with a surprise clutch. So I have that pair as well. Later, I aquired a 1.1 pair of Alabama's het for Hypo, which I will be pairing together this coming season. Making more Alabama's is on my list for this coming season. I will be holding some back, to continue the Alabama line. I will also continue to work with Tara, on furthering the Alabama Tessera project that we started. There are a couple other "Alabama folk" that I hope to work with as well, & I hope to make the Alabama name recognized. |
Here are my Alabama's
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In order of pictures:
Mica-unk age adult female (WC) Katzen-2007 offspring of Mica's-sired by unknown wild male Silber-2007 offspring of Mica's-sired by unknown wild male Tora-2008 Alabama het Hypo (from Hypo Okeetee female X Alabama male) Tane-2008 Alabama het Hypo (from Hypo Okeetee female X Alabama male) *Tora & Tane will likely be available after the 2012 breeding season. |
Those of you with Alabama's, feel free to post pics of them here!
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Heather, thank you so much for introducing me to this type of snake. I've glanced by them a few times and made a huge mistake by looking over them. They are gorgeous. That is an understatement actually.. seeing them in person is unbelievable.
I think research on this 'locality' morph is a great idea and an amazing undertaking. I also wonder if there isn't a recessive (or dominant) gene involved that produces the really dark (and shiny) overcoat. This will be a fun project! I appreciate that you allowed me be a part of it. |
Hi Heather,
I'm in. Let me give you the run down on Sunshine. In 2009, I found this odd looking snake, that resembled a corn but looked also like a gray rat snake. Not knowing what the heck it could be, I posted her on this forum. After a few post, I found out Walter had a pair and immediately we agreed it was a Alabama corn snake. A few weeks later, She laid a clutch of 10 eggs. Awesome...... I ended up sending a pair to Virgina (I think). Later on he said that they stopped eating and passed(bummer). I kept 2 to continue the line. The next season I breed her to an Anery to see if perhaps she was some form of Anery type snake. Nope, most of the babies came out normal with one exception(red), I kept. Loving the silver coration, burnt red(brick red) saddles and the abnormal amout of yellow these guys seem to have, I was wondering if I could get an Amel version and if it would look any different. Perhaps with more yellow, or even that brick red coloration instead of the normal reds. So I paired her up with my Striped Amel Male, Crush. Out of 10 eggs only 5 hatched. 2 females and 3 males. 1 female did not make it. The other 4 are eating like champs. So far that has been my projects with these amazing looking snakes. Sunshine http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6117/6...55052cbe4d.jpg Gray(09 fml AL) http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6223/6...6054263cce.jpg Al (09 male AL) http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6219/6...5aa6dd40a4.jpg Red (10 male AL) het Anery motley ph hypo http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6...833226cbd8.jpg 3 of the 4 (2011 AL) het Amel Stripe ph anery Fml http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6...0b82500da4.jpg Male http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6...5bab5f41d1.jpg Male http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6...0529b07fc6.jpg |
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I am so glad there are others working with these beautiful snakes! Thanks for adding the pics! |
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Here are my babies from the first Alabama project we worked on. They are out of Mica, & Tara's Tessera, Taz. (They're in the Alabama Tessera progression thread as well).
The ground color is turning out really cool, & I cannot wait to see how they look full grown! |
I can not tell on the 1st 2 but the last 2 you can see the AL trait in the back half of the bodies. The next couple of years are going to be exciting for you, I can see it coming :)
Fingers, toes, and eyes crossed for you on that project. |
Yes, you can see it & I'm excited to see them full grown!
I also wonder about what Tara mentioned, that there might be some sort of recessive or dominant gene at play. Another curious thing I noticed, was that a couple of these babies have het Sunkissed type markers, where the other Tessera clutch did not. |
I will have to take a few pictures of mine for you Heather, once I find my camera! :eek:
We've spent the majority of the week looking for it and we have no clue where it could be! |
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