Great looking snakes Orlando! My Mahoganies are the same. Extreme Variation with them. It'll be interesting to see what happens from Kastanie X Mahogany this season!
I love the plain mahogany. Imagine if you could selectively breed a wide-border!
Well I have to be honest, I have not followed the "Mahogony" very much at all. Last I read anything about it was that they were thought to possibly be Kastanie.
I take it that has not been proven as of yet?? Also, not sure if they are all like this, but I find the Mahogony pictured here to look like a typical corn possibly displaying the redcoat/redfactor trait..........it that possible ??
If so, could that explain the variations in the Hypo forms ???
Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!
I've recently been wondering if Mahogany isn't Dominant??
I say this because I have some that "look" like Classic corns. The person I got them from swear they are coming from Mahogany breedings. I also spoke to one of the people that got in on the Mahoganies first and they told me 2 years ago they thought it could be a Dominant gene, because when bred to a Ghost Corn some of the F1s came out Mahogany. I thought they were pulling my chain, but now I'm seriously reconsidering their thoughts!!
"hmmm interesting"…….. The breeding I did this year with the male mahogany paired with a WC swamp green yielded all classic corns but after a few sheds some of them are turning out to be mahogany-like. I will post picture sometime soon.
Thanks for the info!
Orlando
My Kastanie X Christmas Hypo Mahogany might be a waste if the Christmas Hypo Mahogany isn't actually a Mahogany![]()
Orlando- Lee and I were just talking about this very thing. From my groups results; I think your first one pictured is a norm het mahog. I have two girls that look exactly like yours, with the rich red bleeding through. I'll post pix of how I have mine identified. I could be totally wrong, but just my 2 cents. Yours look super nice btw.
Steve- I still owe you a male. You keep avoiding me in Tampa.lol
I have a possible mahogany I am testing out next season with one of John's kastanie bloodreds. She looks just like that snake in the OP. As a hatchling she looked just like a typical kastanie but turned into a beautiful red adult. This whole variety between mahogany/kastanie/copper is very fascinating to me!