Lava Butter!

[Mitchell Mulks]

This clutch was a surprise to say the least. The dam is on breeding loan to me and she was only known as a lava het caramel. I had planned on pairing her with my topaz male to produce a bunch of topaz, but for some reason my topaz was just not into it, so I threw in my male lava het caramel ph amel. Weeeeeeell, it appears that both sire and dam proved out het amel! We were able to produce a bunch of lavas, three topaz, two lavamels, and one stellar lava butter (I like Butterflow). The only other photo I could find of a lava butter is on Ian's, but it doesn't look anything like this one. If anyone else has photos of a lava butter I'd really like to see yours.

Below are all four possible morphs from this pairing. At the end I've included a collage of all four.

Lava 66% ph amel caramel

Lavamel 66% ph caramel

Topaz 66% ph amel

Lava Butter (Butterflow Corn)

All four lava morphs

Thanks for looking!

 

[crackerhead]

Beautiful animals! Lava makes everything sooo bright. I like the way you put all the morphs in a pictorial matrix for fast visual comparison. It makes it easy to see the differences between each. I hope someone posts more pics of Butter Lavas for comparison.

Terri

 

[hypnoctopus]

I've never seen a lava butter before. I really like all of them. I hope you will post updated pictures of the lava butter (if you keep it) as it gets older. I'd love to see what it looks like as it grows.

 

[ecreipeoj]

Nice Results

New Lava Combines are being produced all over the world this year and the year is just getting started!

 

[steve roylance]

Awesome critters Mitch!!!

 

[Bowlshot]

Wow that's an amazing animal.. Congrats please start a progression thread on this one...

 

[Toddsnake]

NICE!!!

Those are some Beautiful Babies and your photo skills are Awesome! Are you using some kind of white photo-box setup like I have seen described in the Photography Forum?

Congrats on some NICE Babies! :bowdown::bowdown:

Todd :cheers:

 

[UniqueSnakes]

Amazing snakes!!! Congratz!!! I could use Lava gene in my future projects

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

Thank you everyone for the kind comments! It was a blast seeing this guy emerge, even more so that he was the first to pip.

Those are some Beautiful Babies and your photo skills are Awesome! Are you using some kind of white photo-box setup like I have seen described in the Photography Forum?

Todd, I am using a white photo-box setup. I use an old Nikon D50 with a 35-85 mm zoom. I use a dual flash system with diffusers that softens any shadows. The flashes are actually never positioned towards the subject, but instead upwards at a 45-degree angle so that it'll bounce off the white backdrop. To create my photo-box I simply line a 15-quart Sterilite container with white printer paper. My subjects are always photographed on a new piece of white paper so that any feces or excretions from previous subjects won't impact the health of the current snake (not that hatchlings have much to offer in the way of pathogens...but always better safe than sorry.).

Amazing snakes!!! Congratz!!! I could use Lava gene in my future projects

Hector, I already have a butt-ton of lava based hatchlings to rid myself of. I have visuals such as lava bloods, topaz, and lavamels that I need to sell, plus there's always the plain lavas with cool hets too. Shoot me a PM if you'd like.

 

[dwyn127]

Nice looking animals Mitchell!!

 

[Tom Tuttle]

Congrats Mitch! Very nice looking animals.

 

[El Jefe]

Very well done!

I produced what I thought was one of those but it was very runty and failed to thrive. Could always have been something else but the genes were in there.