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My Pact With The Devil

jazzgeek said:
As I've mentioned many times here on the forums, the "thing" that inspired me to move from having "pet snakes" to becoming a "hobbyist breeder" were Rich's photos of Lavender Bloods/Diffused Lavs. I thought that if I could produce those, I'd have accomplished something pretty cool. The double-homo "diffused" morphs (Pewters, "Whiteouts", and Diffused Lavs) are my favorites.

Which leads me to introducing my two new additions pictured below. I was originally going to name them "Fleischman" and "O'Connell", in honor of the two main characters of one of my favorite TV shows of all time, "Northern Exposure". But when I opened the box this morning, I was reminded of something that I completely forgot. I'll get to that in a second.

But before that, a shameless plug. These two are from Carol's stock; her service was impeccable. Outside of asking me what my best time would be to receive 'em, I got an (unexpected) email notice from FedEx giving me the tracking number. The only shipping "issue" I had was with the delivery driver. Anxious as I was this morning, I was outside my front door before she got out of her truck. As she approached me, she realized she was carrying the box upside down, and did one of those "toss and flip" manuevers to get it right side up. I practically soiled myself, and then I practically did violence to her.

It didn't matter; the box was fantastically packed (newbie breeder shipping lesson: outside of the standard styrofoam panels and heat pack, mechanically shredded paper stock is a good, solid, and inexpensive packing material....), and I don't think anything could have "shifted" during shipping. Ya gotta like that.

OK, so knowing that these were F2s from her lavender bloodred project pairings "06-03 to 06-06", I knew I was getting snakes that were 66% possible hets; in other words, I knew to expect that the male lav was going to be 66% het for bloodred, and that the female bloodred was going to be 66% het for lavender. Fine and dandy, I thought, I'll take those chances. What I completely forgot...until I saw the labeling on the deli cup.....was that the hypo gene was in the mix as well.

And so, I've sold my soul, in order for all "possible" hets to prove out. From these two, we're looking at a potential for normals, bloods, lavs, hypos, hypo bloods, hypo lavs, diiffused lavs, diffused hypos, and diffused hypo lavs.

Forget about the fictional characters from fictional Cicely, Alaska; I'll give some future snakes those names. Meet Faust and Marguerite.

Faust's a bit more pinkish than shown in these photos (thanks to wash from the flash, and my caffeine-induced oversharpening in Photoshop ;) ), and that's just fine with me (especially if the hets prove out). I've been told that if a ventral on a corn has a "white stripe" down the center, then being heterozygous for diffused is highly likely. Anyone wish to verify that from their experience?

Marguerite's nice and dark, just how I like my bloods; both handled like puppies when I took them out of the deli cups.

So here they are. Thanks for looking, and I'll see you all in hell. ;)

regards,
jazz
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Thats awesome Dale!! My favorite corns morph is the diffused lav also...I really hope to get a lav-het blood and a blood het lavender....soon!! Im also realyl intrested in the ice and lavas.
 
jazzgeek said:
Wow, for someone 4 years old, I commend both your keyboarding and math skills. ;)

regards,
jazz
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:laugh01::roflmao: I was thinking the same thing, then scrolled down to see you beat me to it :cheers:
 
jazzgeek said:
Wow, for someone 4 years old, I commend both your keyboarding and math skills. ;)

regards,
jazz
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Gotta love our wonderful school system! And people wonder why I spend so much time teaching my children at home. They are both currently way beyond their classmates in both reading and math.
 
ho-hum............i have nothing to say but nice snakes dale. there are already too many "wise-cracks" in this thread, so i will leave it alone (even though while reading through it i had at least 4-5 pre-written comments in my head). awesome descriptor leading up to "THE PICS". :cheers:
 
Hey Dale,

Can you please PM me the address or phone number to contact someone in regards to buying souls?

You see I have ordered (arriving today, YEA) Normals, Hypos, Bloodreds, a Lavender, and a Hypo Lavender from Carol. All from that same Hypo Diffused Lavender project. Now I just need the contact info to sell out that I make the right pairings to actually accomplish getting just 1 Hypo Diffused Lavender in 2008 or 2009.

~Jeff C.
 
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