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Pewter yearling...

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Serpwidgets

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I was at the local annual reptile show yesterday and found this one. He should work nicely into my "pewter" breeding projects (I also plan to work on hypo pewter and other variants)
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Kinda hard to see what's so impressive about him from the top.

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Very strong bloodred traits on this one. Otherwise I would have passed him up.

And the belly is squeaky clean.
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My "stable" for these projects now consists of...
Females:
'97 Bloodred het charcoal amel anery
'02 Bloodred het hypo charcoal
'02 Hypo outblood
Males:
'00 Charcoal Ghost
'01 Pewter (pictured here)
'02 pewter
And next year I plan to hatch charcoals het hypo and bloodred, woowoo!
 
Wow....
you seem to have a lot of pewter in your collection!! I love those pewters!!! If you want to get rid of some, please tell me I still have quite a bit of roomm....
 
you seem to have a lot of pewter in your collection!!
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Yep, that's the idea. :)

I plan to create several bloodlines of pewters and pewter ghosts so that I can intermingle them--initially producing a lot of variety within the morph--and then really work on selecting for those subtle variations that I like the most. :)

I'm also going to work on creating at least one other bloodline pretty much from scratch, using certain types of normals to introduce other tendencies which I think would be attractive.

I also want to work on Lavender Bloodreds, but that's still a project in its "planning" stage.
 
I've never been much of a bloodred fan, but the pics that I've seen of pewters has got me a bit interested. Are the bloodred lines still difficult feeders or has that been pretty much "bred out" of them? I'd like to see a couple of pics of adult pewters if anyone out there would care to post them.
 
From what I understand, bloodred hatchlings are no more difficult to feed than any other morph. I think it was only a few of the original lines that even had that problem to begin with.

Also those that were "difficult" simply required anoles. They would eat anoles just as readily as others would eat pinks. My big concern is more directed at hatchlings that simply won't eat anything... now THAT is really annoying and disheartening. ;)
 
>My big concern is more directed at hatchlings that simply won't eat anything... now THAT is really annoying and disheartening.

I'm with you on that. I just let two go in my yard that wouldn't feed after two months. One ate once and the other never did and he was a beautiful, for lack of a better term, sunglow motley.
 
I recently got a hypo bloodred hatchling from Rich, and she's out to prove that bloodreds are NOT difficult feeders. I fed her last night (in her little deli cup), and I hadn't even gotten her all the way in before she'd clamped down on that pinkie's head. I haven't seen her hesitate at all any of the three times I've fed her so far. She's the most eager eater I've had, and I've never had a snake that qualified as a problem feeder.
 
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