Tessera Pied Bloodreds

[Richard Hume]

The first tessera bloodred, a male produced in 2011 (featured in Reptiles magazine in August 2012) is het pied, as he is the product of a pied male x tessera het bloodred female that I got from Don Soderberg. In his first year of breeding, I decided to cross him to multiple pied bloodred females in the hopes that a tessera pied bloodred would be a head turner.

Well, the eggs have hatched and the hatchlings have shed, and the results are everything I had hoped for. Shown are pictures of four different tessera pied bloodreds. Interesting the variability in the appearance of the animals, although they all have in common the "dashes" down the back of the snakes - they all look similar in that regard. I'm assuming that it is the pied gene that is doing that, because tessera bloodreds (at least the handful that I've produced the last two years) don't look like that at all. Like regular pied bloodreds, the amount of white is highly variable, but they all have those red sides that is characteristic of the pied lines.

Pictured below is the one that I consider the best so far, in that he is the reddest and also has the most white. The last picture is the obligatory "pissed off" shot, he isn't happy about posing! I will post three other examples immediately below.

Thanks for looking!

Rich Hume

 

[Richard Hume]

Three more

Three more very different looking tessera pied bloodreds.

Thanks for looking!

Rich Hume

 

[Crazy Colubrids]

Very cool!

 

[SODERBERGD]

Really amazing Rich

Those exceeded All of our expectations. Huge congratulations on making such awesome babies. Cannot wait to see them mature. Keep us pictorially 411'd on their visual progression.

Don

 

[MotleyMedusa7]

awesome babies :cheers:

 

[hypnoctopus]

Wow, so awesome! I hope you'll keep us updated!

 

[mikem]

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing these grow up.

 

[screamindemon17]

Great looking kids... congratulations

 

[insomniac101]

Absolutely breathtaking, Rich!

Kathy

 

[HighVoltage]

I think I just died and went to heaven!

 

[yojoe05]

I think I'll be looking at a pied bloodred finally, the way it breaks up the tessera pattern is really amazing. Great looking snakes Rich.

 

[Chip]

Great looking batch, Rich! Wow!

 

[crackerhead]

Big Congrats!
It's interesting how the dorsal pattern is so broken up. I wonder if that is the result of the Diffusion or the P/S? Would you post pics of the parents please?

Terri

 

[Viroque]

Awsome...!!!

 

[steve roylance]

Well, I have a new favorite Tessy morph

 

[Richard Hume]

Parents

Terri

I don't own the father anymore, nor do I have any pictures of him, but here's mom, a tessera het bloodred from 2009. She's a real nice classic looking tessera. My guess is the broken pattern comes from the pied gene, because they all look like that.

Hope to see you in Daytona soon!

Rich

Big Congrats!
It's interesting how the dorsal pattern is so broken up. I wonder if that is the result of the Diffusion or the P/S? Would you post pics of the parents please?

Terri

 

[UniqueSnakes]

Wow!!! That's some Amazing Animals you got there Rich!!!!! Huge Congratz!!!!!

 

[Tom Tuttle]

Congrats Rich! :dancer:

 

[JoannaD]

Tessera and pied never wowed me but those are stunning! Love the crazy pattern.

 

[multicorn]

Very nice Rich..!!!
very very nice infact congrats..!!

Not 100% yet I need one more season to prove out but It would appear to me that the 'crazy pattern' Tessera diffused is directly connected to Masque..

So far I have 10 diffused tessera (non masque) perfect stripe
and 7 diffused and non diffused tessera masque that have crazy patterns..!!!

can you have a look through your collection and prove this theory right or wrong ?????
this could be useful depending on the desired look of any future morphs