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I would have to dissagree about the testing. They were able to tell and to what degree of bull snake i in most La. pines and were able to tell wich ones were pure La pines . They did this with CB and WC . I know that there is only a small population on pure La pines in the range of the speacies. Most of the range of La pine are intergrads with bull in all diffrent degress

I think it is that most of the breeders with ultra are affraid to find out that there is gray rat in there corns. The fact is that if you did DNA testing you would find out that a lot of wild corns have some rat snake in their lineage.

As far as a unrelated line of ultras , please that is too funny. What did you think that no hets were ever sold into the hobby by the three dudes in question. The ultra gene has been around long before you and me knew anything about. It was here for years. They had been breeding these snakes for many years. All those animals they produced and you got a unrealted line .What is more of the case is your anr most likely animals that were desendants from their early breeding projects that were sold into the hobby. It is no big deal the fact remaims that this gene came from 3 people that were shifty. They change their story , you cant get a strait answer from any of the three. after all this conterversy on tis forum and other . You would think if it did not come off a gray rat or a wild intergrade someone would have wanted the credit in their name for finding a new corn snake gene/morph. It is just common sence to figure it out . You dont have to be a rocket sicentist to come up with the right answer. :dancer: Crossbred

Now the peach peach thing . Just to rehash. R.humre got his adults off me as babies. I did the orginal cross with the HLB to the amber. I was the one that got the mixed clutch that should have been all hypos. I have been telling you and everyone else that I almost sure that there 2 hypo genes at work . It is funny that another breeder on this fourm did a simular cross and their animals dont look anything like Rich H/my stock. See I also have the orginal hypo from the HLB line. No one else does except Rich Z. I sold him my breeder HLB male. and cornmorphs . Nige bought a adult blood multi that is the son of the HLB. I crossed him to the hypo female and got normal bloods and hypo bloods. So I know that they are carring the same hypo gene. I can do the test breedings and have been doing so. This year I'm breeding a mystery HLB to that hypo female to see what I get . You know with your breeding you crossed a charcoal ghost mystery to a amber ( I dont know if the amber was mystery stock) and did not get any hypo morphs.

I can give a rats ass what most people oppions are of me im this hobby and the forum, because most people are of avge, intellangence. Very few people in this hobby are above the norm and it is a true reflection of the general population. Most people you meet in the world are liers, and are 2 faced. Even though I cant spell very well because I goffed off in school. I may be a little crazy but have a higher sence of interlect verbilely over most of the GP in the world. That seams to be the case with most very smart people difficent in one place and above avrage in another. like my Dislexica
 
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yes the ultra gene has been here for a long time and there very well can be two different lines,the thing is ultra was thought to be just hypo and since amel masks most hypo genes the two were never bred together in most part by most big breeders. When its has been found out ,it was said that most of them came from I believe mike motleys who bred them into carmel that has made the goldust.I have alot of ultramels that arent het for carmel,so the has to make you wonder. I have also heard that Mike Falcon found one that was supposed to be ultra and if thats who you are reffering to being (shifty),thats the furthest thing from being the trueth I have ever heard he has been breeding snakes for 30+ years! I personally have done alot of business with the man and respect him. His animals are of top quality and handles his business very professionally. We have held back the clutch from the phantom looking male x the amber and plan to line breed them to see what besides ambers we produce there should be animals that look like two forms of hypo and carmel if we get lucky:shrugs:
 
I belive all trhe ultras came from one source. As I said before and you agree that the gene has been here a long timt and since Mike F. been breeding snakes for over 30+ years and that is where most of the ultras can be traced . So you think every animal that the sold can be traced to them??? Nop. Being both frosted and ultra came fro the 3. Give me a break . The ultra came from a gray rat or a gray rat/corn mix. That is the sttock that they were working with who know's how many normal looking corn mix's were filtered through these guy's over the years.
As for honesty Like I said before If the ultra. came from a pure corn there would not be all this drama about it and someone would have clamed the glory for founding it instead of hiding from the issue. So as the story goes it it came from a natural gray rat / corn cross what about any of the orginal snake offspring or it's sibs babies did it breed with a corn or a gray rat or with both to produce 3/4 cross of either speices. What if the oringal snake breed back to a corn and some of those babies carried the gene and someone caught those and got ultras fro wild caughts from the same aera of the oringal snake . There would be no one questioning the purity of the morph. As I said and will allways say obsoleta and gutta intergrade in the wild. I myself found one in Jasper Co. a big 4-1/2 foot green rat with bright red red/orange side pattren. I show it to a guy that been hunting snakes as a child that lives there named John Green (A.K.A.) Boggie. He told me he never seen a green rat with trhat color side pattren. Why do Okeetee corns grow so big and have a more keeled scale than other corn snake populations. Why is that Hmm sounds like a little bit of ratsnake in there . grandma get around, is the old saying
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Sorry that I didn't address this issue in my last post

Stephen
yes the ultra gene has been here for a long time and there very well can be two different lines,the thing is ultra was thought to be just hypo and since amel masks most hypo genes the two were never bred together in most part by most big breeders. When its has been found out ,it was said that most of them came from I believe mike motleys who bred them into carmel that has made the goldust.I have alot of ultramels that arent het for carmel,so the has to make you wonder.

I have bought many of snakes off Rich Z that were hypos het for amel and amel's het for hypo without him or me knowing it at the time of purchess. Only when breeding the his stock to eachother or his stuff crossed to my known hets or PH did I find out what other genes his snakes were carring. I used to and still do call his stock guess a het . You never know what extra genes you are getting when you buy from him . My stuff is in the same boat now. I just love suprises, never knowing what may pop up from the clutch. For over 15 years I know of people crossing hypo to amel or animals that are het for one or the other gene bred to a het for either gene. So that blows that theiroy out of the water that they are 2 diffrent lines. You realy think none of the 3 breeders in question animals that were het for ultra got sold to dealers or at a show. Many of people bred amel and hypo some to see what they will get and others because they might of had a extra female laying around. The fact remains they sold many snakes through out this hobby , some of those every year het ultras. All you need is some one to get a snake that is a unknown ultra het and breed back the offspring back to eachother ( like nobody has ever done this :rolleyes: ) and bingo ultras pop up and cant be traced to the 3 so it must be unrealted stock right,Fooy that's a bunch of bull . The only way you would have a leg to stand on if your ultras came from breeding 2 Wc, breeding 2 F1 sibs, or someone was working with all ther stock traced back to WC with no hobby stock added into the stock and a ultra poped out. My stock have been sold all over this country, weather wholesale, retail and jobber. I have know idea who may have my stock with all the Breeding, buying, sell, and trading that goes on in the hobby in many different leavles . It is impossibile to trace all of there stock back to the 3 breeders where the ultra gene came from. Yea, like if I get motleys out of some normal hobbystyock corns that I had no idea that they were het for motley, I guess they are unrealted to all the other motleys in the hobby according to you guys. Look the whole thing in a nut shell is your trying to doge all the flack and drama associated with the ultras. I aint buying it , either is anyone that has a good head on there shoulders. I'm not being mean just blunt and truthful. I truly think you are nice people and have some great looking animals ,never heard anything bad about either of you. I would have no problen refuring someone to buy animals off you guys:) Dont take this personaly its just getting to the bottom of things.
 
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I can't prove they are not hybrid, I can't prove or disprove any corn is a hybrid.. You can't eithier and you know that.. Unless your going to foot the bill for the Corn snake gnome project no one can say with 100% certainity ( What a bill that would be... ).. Good luck.....

Please do, post our e mail conversation, it would not bother me in the least.. In fact it might give me a refresher about what I figured was going on.. Heck Tom, I might just have things remembered wrong and I digress if I do..



I think thats funny too, because I know there was a few listed for sale too..Of course you wanted a breeding loan.. My bad, but $40 and the cost of shipping shouldn't be to much for you.. I can't sell you one, because I don't have one.. I only know for sure of one person that has a grey oak, and there might be another person I remember meeting here in the forum that has one, other wise they seem to be rather uncommon to say the least.. However, I have provided a link to someone who sells them..

http://www.sunshineserpents.com/Rat snakes/White Oak.htm

Regards... Tim of T and J

Tim, Thanks for the link, but I'm not looking for hatchlings. I advertised for a breeding loan,but was also actively searching for an adult cbb female. You act as if you know me. Quite frankly nothing could be further from the truth.
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Well, heres the thing Tom.. The ultramel line is so muddled with so much at this point.. I would rather start at the begining in my perspective..

Of course it goers back to Panic and his Cohort.. Two seperate lines of ultramel seemed to have showed up in their breedings.. Two things happened as we know, one was a grey rat "White Oak Phase" X Corn.. The other as we know was supposed to have been present in Corn to corn cross.. The problem stands, is that these guys never kept records, in my best understanding.. Of course this plays into everyone questioning the integrity of these two men, something I have not done.. Maybe this is a gross over sight on my part... Maybe it is silly of me to believe this, but its what I honestly think.. Where did those animals go? Who knows, I don't..

Now lets come back to the ultramel ties in California.. The breeder I got my original group called them T +, and he was a fairly well known breeder on the West Coast.. Natrually, T+ is frowned upon in the Corn Snob world, but considering the typical ( which varied greatly ) appearance it seemed like a good idea.. Now the big joke is, people have been running around for the last few years saying that T+ is a sales scam etc etc.. Not that matters to me..

Now there is a likely connection between the Panic's ultramels and the So Cal animals I believe.. The breeder that I got my animals from, it is my understanding, used to be in cahoots with a man named Tim Rainwater, if my memory serves me correctly, Rainwater at some point and time got ultramels from, you guessed it, Panic.. Keep in mind, I can't remember if I read this online or had heard this verbally from someone.. From there, animals obviously were produced in So Cal, which seems to be reasonable to me on why I seem to find them fairly often.. Now what animals were shipped here? The crosses or the supposed pure corn.. No one can say with certainty at this point..

Now here is another twist.. I had talked with a breeder at show that used to deal with corns.. I understand quite a few years back, she did a breeding of White Oak Phase to a Corn.. Yes, this breeder also ties back to people in the previous paragraph.. Apparently she produced some corns, and she called them Rustys.. Where did the term Rusty originate from? Likely from the aforementioned breeder. Now Tom, we can see that someone admitted to doing a hybrid cross.. Now this is what makes my head hurt.. So of course, the information has been out there for a long time, but seldom shared..

My question Tom, is what if the ones that came from out east to California were the real McCoy's, were incidentally they appear to be the same looking animal.. I have not heard of any one sharing information about breeding an Ultramel to a white oak phase yet.. So I am not completely convinvced that Ultramel and the crossed animals are the same.. If they are, so be it. Of course Tom, as we already see it, the market has slowed down big time on Ultramels.. They will be devalued as much as rootbeers and creamsicles.. So of course it has me up in arms, when there is not total completed testing known.. From what I mentioned, I am hoping you can see the same picture I am seeing.. Keep in mind Tom, from my perspective, because I have been told many times over, my animals do not resemble ultramels as we know them. A lot of people are convinced they are just some odd looking normals, ghost and a hypo.. Of course there have been others in So Cal that have proved the line out to be
Ultramel or something else..

I hope you have a clearer perspective of view points of the animals Tom, because to me it has not been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that something else might be going on..

Now you had asked me about our website. The site was built from scratch by my Wife. This is what she does on the side, as she will likely never return to work due to prior injuries.. She has done work on numerous Breeders sites and is always looking for more to do to occupy her time.. She has even done work on the Source, CCCorns, Lowbelly Reptiles, Critter Auction, Calla's Corns etc etc etc..

Anyways, now that I wrote an epic here, I need to go and take care of a few things..

Regards.. Tim of T and J

Now Tim,it is a well known fact that "Rusty" is a trade name for T+ albino black ratsnakes that Mike Jollif produced. I have also offered to do a test breeding to the White Oak phase. Do you remember reading your suggestion in your email?:shrugs:Now you flip flop to needing Gnome testing.:roflmao
I will continue breeding Ultra & Ultramels since I find it to have some unique possibilities. So please continue on thinking that your Ultra/Ultramels in CA are different than everybody elses yet do nothing in the attempt to prove it yet remain so quick to criticize those that do!But then as your email states "none of that matters to you"
Rusty's (that's the name of the snake that I bought from Joni Garcia ACR # is 2834 ).His offspring are advertised as 25% gray Rat!
 
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Vinman You hit the nail right on the head!:dancer:Congrats!!

Stephen, You produce some very beautiful animals! I will most likely be purchasing some more from you!
 
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It is just common sence Tom . Being in the hobby for such along time you see and exsparence so much . Ultras and frosted came from the same 3 guys . They were working with gray rat/corn crosses just as some worked with emory/corn crosses. How many of these and other breeders let these crosses into the hobby . Impossible to trace with out DNA testing. I remember over ten years ago buying some screaming miami corns off this breeder at the White Plains show, they were F1. All he labled was ratsnakes and corns on The tank for 5 bucks a peace . He said that he caught all the adults himself. I went back to after a couple of hours to question him about the location of the snakes I bought. They looked a little weird so I figured to ask some questions. Well it ends up that he keep gray rats, yellow rats and corns in one big tank . I dont keep track of who breeds to who. I catch them breeding sometimes . The all inter breed together. It dont make a differnce they are all ratsnakes. Well the screaming miami's I bought were gray rat/corns intergrades. i sold them to the local pet store as intergraded ratsnakes. How many of those animals did breeders buy to add to there breeder stock with out asking the questions that I did. How many of those desendents are in the hobby today . He has been selling them for many years before I met him.
 
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It is just common sence Tom . Being in the hobby for such along time you see and exsparence so much . Ultras and frosted came from the same 3 guys . They were working with gray rat/corn crosses just as some worked with emory/corn crosses. How many of these and other breeders let these crosses into the hobby . Impossible to trace with out DNA testing. I remember over ten years ago buying some screaming miami corns off this breeder at the White Plains show, they were F1. All he labled was ratsnakes and corns on The tank for 5 bucks a peace . He said that he caught all the adults himself. I went back to after a couple of hours to question him about the location of the snakes I bought. They looked a little weird so I figured to ask some questions. Well it ends up that he keep gray rats, yellow rats and corns in one big tank . I dont keep track of who breeds to who. I catch them breeding sometimes . The all inter breed together. It dont make a differnce they are all ratsnakes. Well the screaming miami's I bought were gray rat/corns intergrades. i sold them to the local pet store as intergraded ratsnakes. How many of those animals did breeders buy to add to there breeder stock with out asking the questions that I did. How many of those desendents are in the hobby today . He has been selling them for manyyears before I met him.

Yep, I've been doing this since the late 70's & have seen so much it's a wonder I'm still sane.:)Feild collecting in the 70's & breeding since the early 80's. We may need to call Grissom & his team to come up with an answer;) In the meantime the naturally occurring intergrades will continue. And I will continue doing what have I have for many years now,producing high quality animals for those who want them.:)
 
Now Tim,it is a well known fact that "Rusty" is a trade name for T+ albino black ratsnakes that Mike Jollif produced. I have also offered to do a test breeding to the White Oak phase. Do you remember reading your suggestion in your email?Now you flip flop to needing Gnome testing.:roflmao
I will continue breeding Ultra & Ultramels since I find it to have some unique possibilities. So please continue on thinking that your Ultra/Ultramels in CA are different than everybody elses yet do nothing in the attempt to prove it yet remain so quick to criticize those that do!But then as your email states "none of that matters to you"

Gnome testing would be the one to get to absolute bottom period.. Its as simple as that...

Now Tom, I never said all the ultramels in So Cal are different. Your a fool for thinking I even suggested that.. What I suggested Tom is that there appears to be two different lines of animals.. One that appears to look like Rusty/Frosted ( as I have seen them for sale in Rep Stores ) that IMHO, don't look much like an ultramel, and then there are the ones have came from other sources..

Now Tom, what did not matter to me was the name the breeder used and what the masses thought about the T+, not what you have insinuated..

Tim, Thanks for the link, but I'm not looking for hatchlings. I advertised for a breeding loan,but was also actively searching for an adult cbb female. You act as if you know me. Quite frankly nothing could be further from the truth.

I don't know you Tom, and that is the truth, thank goodness.. You were looking for a grey oak, I directed you to a place that has them. Who cares if they have hatchlings, you should have the time to grow them out, unless you drop dead. What your going to get ( when bred together ) is what I said above, is what has been called Rusty's or Frosted Rusty's that I have seen for sale.. There is no fictional or imagined cover of grey rat crosses.. :shrugs: I personally don't give a ratsnake ass if it is 100% proven that ultramel originanted from grey oak crosses, I am content at this point to think, and believe that there is something else going on. That is where I stand and have stood regarding ultramel, don't like my views or my opinion, I don't care, its a public forum and I will let it be said..

Regards.. Tim of T and J

Please note: When I am refering to the lines above, I want to make sure the clarification is there, one line being from a hybrid and one line being pure corn..
 
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