Better late than never...summer breedings

My female striped corn is a mystery. I obtained her through a customer calling into work when I lived in Albuquerque. I got her and a male sunglow late fall 2013. Both were housed together within a 40 gallon, 4 years old, and about 250g each. I moved the male as he didn't fit into my colony, but kept the striped. Her name's Rainbow as when I was on the phone the lady called her a rainbow corn (LOL). I paired her in 2014 to Flicker (tessera het butter/amber stripe) after seeing her ovulate. At the time I'd gotten her to about 350g. The pairing resulted in 10 eggs, 1 fertile. The lone fertile went term, only to have a striped normal tessera wind up D.I.E. Unfortunately I don't know what lurking genetics she has.

Fast forward to this season, with an impending possible move last year due to renting, my grandfather passing, and a shift change at work, I opted to not pair everyone for 2015 - a recovery year if you will. This season wound up being a slow start due to my wife and I finally situated to take the plunge into home ownership, closing on our first home in March. Not wanting eggs while moving, we waited until we were situated in the new house.

Long story longer, I tried and tried to get Rainbow to pair back in May, but no dice. She came in at almost 400g back then. I never witnessed a lock up, left her paired overnight, but she never cycled like the rest of my females. Well, this last week I noticed she'd gotten a little more plump, so back in went Mr. Casper....


CasperXRainbow-7-22-2016 by Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr

Casper is a Ghost Stripe, ph sunkissed. Here's to eggs in ~30 days. Now if I can just get my anery tessera het lava, ph albino diffused to successfully pair to a redcoat lava het anery....

What a pretty pair!

Thanks...

I feel like I've wasted Casper's genetics so far. I haven't really put much thought into what to get female wise for him. So far he's been paired here to Rainbow, and earlier to an anery type a I call Blush (she has a faint pink patch between her eye and back corner of her mouth). Blush was given to me along with a female granite after a young lady I'd sold a pair of leopard geckos to passed away. I know the granite is het hypo, but this is Blush's first season - figured hypo and stripe might be good starting points, but with my dumb luck she's het albino.

Sitting here with my wife, I got to thinking maybe one of Steve's orange things would be neat, a coral ghost, or maybe a hypo kastanie? I need to find something nice to pair to him that goes with his orange undertones.

I cleared my inbox some if you want to shoot me a PM reply on what we were talking about recently. Also didn't know you could download your entire PM correspondences (done).

Wow, that IS a late breeding! Casper is probably my favorite of your snakes, so I'm glad to see you using him as a breeder.

I'm pulling a Steve Roylance with this pairing. :crazy01:

If this takes, and if I get viable eggs, I'm looking at a late August laying and Oct/Nov hatching.

Just keep pushing it and eventually you'll be able to have January hatchlings like he does!

hypnoctopus said:

Just keep pushing it and eventually you'll be able to have January hatchlings like he does!

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I'm shooting for Thanksgiving (in and around my birthday) and Christmas. Because...who in their right mind wants to deal with all those eggs and hatchlings during that time of the year. Steve, stop lurking and call me back ya slacker. :nyah: