Shaky
Ought to know better
I feel like a moron. Here's my story.
Six years ago, I started it all with a pair of normals, het hypo and snow, but threw Miamis, too.
Four years ago, I added an amber.
Two years ago, I hatched out a nice amber x snow clutch, a third of which hatched out hypo.
I was excited, 'cause I was a good way to what I wanted to produce - a hypo butter.
Two buddies of mine sexed them for me (and so did I) by popping.
I kept two females: a Crimson het butter and a Hypo het snow,caramel. Both of these turned out very nice.
I also kept a normal quad het male, the darkest of the bunch.
It was funny - of all the snakes we popped, only two were male??? :shrugs:
Anyway, I ran into a tight spot and sold off most of them, sold off all the parents and moved on, keeping the three I mentioned. I never even considered keeping all of them, and I trusted that my ratio was good, and I really never wanted to keep the adults anyway. I was going to wait until these were grown and hang onto them.
So, here we are, two YEARS later and I find (I finally probed them) that all three are males. That explains why the females weren't interested.
Now, I have a conundrum. I know where only one from the rest of my clutch is, and I'm not sure if he still has it.
I now have two really nice corns that I need to decide what to do with.
Crimson het snow,caramel and a yellow hypo het snow,caramel.
Should I sell them both? Should I keep one and start all over?
I can't imagine that anyone will produce this particular combo of hets......
Any ideas as to what to do as far as breeding/keeping them?
The moral is - don't trust popping unless you see a hemi!
Six years ago, I started it all with a pair of normals, het hypo and snow, but threw Miamis, too.
Four years ago, I added an amber.
Two years ago, I hatched out a nice amber x snow clutch, a third of which hatched out hypo.
I was excited, 'cause I was a good way to what I wanted to produce - a hypo butter.
Two buddies of mine sexed them for me (and so did I) by popping.
I kept two females: a Crimson het butter and a Hypo het snow,caramel. Both of these turned out very nice.
I also kept a normal quad het male, the darkest of the bunch.
It was funny - of all the snakes we popped, only two were male??? :shrugs:
Anyway, I ran into a tight spot and sold off most of them, sold off all the parents and moved on, keeping the three I mentioned. I never even considered keeping all of them, and I trusted that my ratio was good, and I really never wanted to keep the adults anyway. I was going to wait until these were grown and hang onto them.
So, here we are, two YEARS later and I find (I finally probed them) that all three are males. That explains why the females weren't interested.
Now, I have a conundrum. I know where only one from the rest of my clutch is, and I'm not sure if he still has it.
I now have two really nice corns that I need to decide what to do with.
Crimson het snow,caramel and a yellow hypo het snow,caramel.
Should I sell them both? Should I keep one and start all over?
I can't imagine that anyone will produce this particular combo of hets......
Any ideas as to what to do as far as breeding/keeping them?
The moral is - don't trust popping unless you see a hemi!
