Progression Thread: Silverleaf Kisatchie Cornsnakes

Thanks guys....trust me: I'm counting the days until his grandchildren first start to pip in the spring of 2009!
KJ

Very exciting! Really gorgeous slovinskii´s, especially the silverleaf!

They are beautiful. How exciting to be involved in a new morph like that, right from the start.

They are beautiful. I really love the normal eyes on that anery, and the little smiley face on its head. Congratulations on the new morph..

> They are beautiful. I really love the normal eyes on that anery, and the little smiley face on its head. Congratulations on the new morph..

Thanks. Let's just hope it breeds true now! I never noticed the smiley face before. It looks like a "ghost" smile you'd carve on a jack-o-lantern. Really freaky!

> How exciting to be involved in a new morph like that, right from the start.

Yeah, so much luck that (1) someone collected him, (2) I knew the collector, and (3) he isn't a breeders so he didn't mind lending it to me. Once in a lifetime opportunity for most of us, eh?

I'm putting the horse before the cart, but next year I plan to try breeding the WC silverleaf male to a dark-eyed aner female to produce double hets (if his look is inheritable!)...in hopes of getting something special in the F2 babies.....

KJ

That Silverleaf is amazing!

Sure wish you the best, in producing some, with your breedings.

Heck yeah! The Silverleaf is really interesting looking. Looks like a cool project to get involved in. Good luck with it!

Originally Posted by Rich Z

Heck yeah! The Silverleaf is really interesting looking. Looks like a cool project to get involved in. Good luck with it!

Thanks, Rich. You, better than anyone, knows how stoked someone like me can get over a new morph. You are certainly responsible for more than one new morph getting introduced to the hobby!
KJ

Originally Posted by KJUN

Thanks, Rich. You, better than anyone, knows how stoked someone like me can get over a new morph. You are certainly responsible for more than one new morph getting introduced to the hobby!
KJ

Yeah..... kind of like opening up a door and seeing a whole new world on the other side......

Update....

Well, we still have some offspring of the Silverleaf growing up to breed in 2009. All are still healthy, growing fast, and most of them (all?) should be big enough to breed this upcoming season. Obviously, I can't wait to see if this gene is inheritable or not.

I had zero plans to make more hets - if this is a simple recessive trait - this year EXCEPT that I bred him to a dark-eyed aner Kisatchie cornsnake this year. If Silverleaf is a recessive trait, my intent was to produce double hets this season. (DE Aner IS a recessive trait.) I did succeed in getting the original silverleaf to breed on of my dark-eyed aner females, and I just got 16 good double het eggs off of her! That is a good morning surprise..

I'm trying to get him to breed a second DE aner female, but no luck yet. Since these eggs are fertile, I'm no longer concerned about breeding him to a second female. I just might stop trying and give the second female the year off. I've already got plenty of normal Kisatchie corns coming.....and 3 to 4 females that should give me some DE Aner Kisatchie corns this year. No real reason for me to worry about this one last female!

Anyway, there's an update. Until next year, there isn't THAT much new that can happen with this line.
KJ