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Originally posted by Marcel Poots
Very nice.. Both of them actually.. But I have a weakness for old dark Bloodreds... That is a Bloodred right? Or else a very nice striped.
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Marcel,
Yes he is a Blood. He is very old and doesn’t have many years left. Many of the old style Bloods had stripes over the Blood pattern. He also has the old classic “dried” blood red color of the Bloods. He will throw everything that I wanted from a Blood into my Blood projects.
This Lava Okeetee laid 13 eggs and 5 plugs a little while ago. I will take it considering the father was this old style Blood. Hopefully, most of them will hatch and I will have a good group to work with toward a Lava Blood. The Lava Okeetee is from a wild line and is only homo for Lava. I am not sure about the Blood since I just acquired him this spring, but he is most likely just Homo Blood. I have bred him to an amel het snow so if he is het for one of them it will show up.
I got another clutch of eggs today from one of my Blood projects. The fertility was worse, but since they are project snakes, I only needed enough to work with. A female Snow poss het lava, bred to an Amel Blood male produced 8 fertile eggs and 11 plugs.
Since I just acquired the two blood males this spring I feel lucky to get anything at all. The other females which are bred to these two Bloods look fuller and I expect better fertility with them. Perhaps the male Bloods just needed to get their blood flowing or I just missed the best days for breeding.