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Freshly shed hypo Okeetee

Just wondering, if this guy doesn't have the thick black bands does he still count as an Okeetee?
 
According to Rich he does! I bought him from Rich at MARS last year. In any case, because he is a hypo Okeetee, we should not expect the bands to be as wide as they normally are, right??
 
This is the problem I've been having... my Okeetee doesn't have black bands as thick as people expect and it made me wonder was he actually an okeetee... but he looks EXACTLY like that snake in the pictures up there... so what is the difference between an okeetee and a hypo okeetee? Maybe Jake is a hypo...
 
Well... since hypo reduces the intensity of black areas and/or the size of black area's, a 'true' hypo Okeetee (phase) would look like a hypo with thick purplish borders around the saddles IMO, which is possible. But... if this a locality Okeetee homozygous for hypo, the label hypo Okeetee also applies IMO.
 
Blutengel said:
Well... since hypo reduces the intensity of black areas and/or the size of black area's, a 'true' hypo Okeetee (phase) would look like a hypo with thick purplish borders around the saddles IMO, which is possible. But... if this a locality Okeetee homozygous for hypo, the label hypo Okeetee also applies IMO.
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I've no idea what any of this means...

Only info I have on him is what came from Rich, so... :shrugs: Dunno. Thanks for the compliments on him.
 
Hokie looks like my locality hunt club Okeetee girls. Apparently the perfected line bred look of extremely beefed out borders and blinding colors has outworn the group of locality Okeetees it is based off. :sobstory:

I don't mind the line bred Okeetee Phase normals, they are absolutely stunning. But when members cannot recognize a possible locality animal and would not consider it an Okeetee... makes me wonder what happened.

Edit:

All seriousness aside, I forgot to mention- Those belly checkers ROCK! That's probably my favorite thing about Tetris and Scarlet, my Okeetee girls. :cool:
 
Very nice looking snake; maybe it's just me, but he looks like a normal tho, not hypo...het hypo maybe?...has a lot of black...

Giantblue said:
But when members cannot recognize a possible locality animal and would not consider it an Okeetee... makes me wonder what happened.
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It's pretty easy to do. The wild caughts are so variable, you can find different "normal phase" corns in one geographical area...The "Okeetees" when first described were just one persons favorites found in the Hunt Club, they weren't all the orange and red, black bordered beauties we all love to look at. That leads into Okeetees vs "Okeetees". The phase morph, represented by the orange-red background, deep red saddles surrounded by thick black borders is so synonymous with "okeetee's" people forget how variable they (w/c's) can be, and consider them normals :*)
 
cka said:
Very nice looking snake; maybe it's just me, but he looks like a normal tho, not hypo...het hypo maybe?...has a lot of black...



It's pretty easy to do. The wild caughts are so variable, you can find different "normal phase" corns in one geographical area...The "Okeetees" when first described were just one persons favorites found in the Hunt Club, they weren't all the orange and red, black bordered beauties we all love to look at. That leads into Okeetees vs "Okeetees". The phase morph, represented by the orange-red background, deep red saddles surrounded by thick black borders is so synonymous with "okeetee's" people forget how variable they (w/c's) can be, and consider them normals :*)
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Cka,Very well said. Nice looking snake,whatever it's called.
 
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