Ghost House 2015 anticipated pairings

[ghosthousecorns]

I have had a good year in 2014 and have decided I will do a few corn matches this year (I just did one last year) as well as repeating some non-corn breedings. I am hoping to prove out some snakes and work on some line breedings I have had in mind for a while.

"Fangorn" X "Zebra" The male is a hypo het cinder, produced by me from a banded line, the female is an old school cinder I got from Walter. I would like to test her for het hypo and am hoping for some banded cinders.

"Zodiac" X "Reyna" The male is a hypo cinder I have always suspected he is also homozygous anery (a cinder ghost) I am pairing him with my striped silver queen female and if I am right they would be all ghosts het cinder and stripe (and even if I'm wrong I'm still keeping a couple of these)

"Cthulu" X "Zap" The male is a suspected striped tessera anery het hypo. The female is a hypo het anery motley and cinder. I am hoping for tessera ghosts and this should be a varied interesting clutch, tessera or not.

and... maybe 1 more corn pairing to be decided.

"Shoto" X "Jaganga" Hypo everglades rat snakes (they had a clutch of almost all females last year and I need some males)

"Siniestro" X "Sinagirl" Splotched sinaloan milk X sinaloan milk het splotched

 

[rich333]

Can't wait to see the results!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

It's been a slow start so far. Zodiac and Reyna have finally hooked up though, and I think Zap and Cthulu did also (but did not witness the deed, only found "evidence") but the others are not quite ready.
How do some people already have snakes in prelay shed

 

[wendhend]

Those splotched Sinaloan milk snakes are so gorgeous! I keep thinking that I "need" one!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

Cinder Queens on the way

Here's Zodiac and Reyna. They are a hypo cinder (anery?) male and ghost stripe female, both with silver queen lineage. It's a project I've had in the works for a while, and decided to go for this year.
(also please do not put child in tupperware container... those stickers make me laugh)

 

[ghosthousecorns]

A couple more hookups, first 2 pics are Cthulu and Zap, hoping for a ghost tessera, and then the last two pics are of Fangorn and Zebra the cinder girl...

 

[MysticExotics]

Fun pairings! I look forward to seeing those babies!

 

[Jessicat]

Jen, Zodiac and Reyna look great together! Fingers crossed for you on that one. I'll call you on Saturday to see if Sunday will work to meet up!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

It's been a while since I have had time to update, but I have some eggs incubating!

Zap and Zebra have both had nice clutches, Zap's clutch is about a month away from hatching (hoping for ghost tessera) and Zebra the cinder just had her clutch last week (sort of a banded cinder project). I also have a clutch of hypo everglades ratsnake eggs incubating.

My sinaloan milksnake girl is usually last to lay every season and is looking very gravid. I will try to get some photos up soon.

Unfortunately, the clutch from Reyna was infertile, so I have to give up on my cinder queen project until next year and possibly repeat the pairing. But I am looking forwards to the 2 clutches of corns I do have going!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

Here's Zap and her clutch. These are about a month along incubating. Zap is hypo, het cinder anery motley. I have a feeling the clutch will be real varied. Such a good mom

 

[ghosthousecorns]

Oh happy day

This clutch has been driving me crazy, these are the eggs from Cthulu and Zap. They have been denting and looking about to hatch for a while and I have been trying to just check once a day. Looks like they finally decided it was hatch day - at last!

 

[beccassseven]

Oooooooh! Yay congrats on the little snoots! Can't wait to see them out of the eggs!

 

[Jessicat]

Congrats Jen!!! Glad your hard work payed off!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

I should probably make their own thread for them soon but here's some of the Tess out In 2013 when their dad hatched I thought he was a striped tessera and others thought just a stripe or real nice pinstripe motley. But I am now convinced Cthulu is a motley tessera het stripe. Also the mom of this clutch is het motley not stripe, so given the appearance of these striped babies I am willing to agree that what people have been calling "striped tessera" are really motley tessera or motley het stripe ones.

 

[MysticExotics]

Awesome! Congrats!

 

[wendhend]

I should probably make their own thread for them soon but here's some of the Tess out In 2013 when their dad hatched I thought he was a striped tessera and others thought just a stripe or real nice pinstripe motley. But I am now convinced Cthulu is a motley tessera het stripe. Also the mom of this clutch is het motley not stripe, so given the appearance of these striped babies I am willing to agree that what people have been calling "striped tessera" are really motley tessera or motley het stripe ones.

Jen, I'm totally convinced now that these tesseras with the prominent full stripe, unpatterned or lightly patterned sides and usually a break in striping at the neck (like you have here) are actually tessera motleys rather than tessera stripes. Seeing my own male like this purchased as "tessera stripe" prove out with several het stripe females to actually be a motley / stripe tessera (obvious from the disproportionate quantity of motley non tessera siblings produced and seeing the huge difference in appearance between his actual tessera stripe offspring and the motley or motley / stripe ones produced). Anyway, seeing someone that I trust produce this same phenotype from a female that can ONLY produce motleys is very convincing! Thank you for sharing!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

If anyone cares to see individual photos of the tessera clutch, they are posted on iherp (link is in my signature) under "2015 babies". Results were, 4 apparent tessera motley, 6 tessera, 5 "just motley" in appearance, and 2 that were neither tessera nor motley. I got a few ghost tessera, my target! Here's a couple of those and one hypo...

 

[ghosthousecorns]

The cinder clutch has hatched!

With most of the clutch out, it seems Zebra is not het hypo and there were no other het in common, since all these babies are normals and cinders. I didn't get a ton of photos of the hatchings but here's a few. They do have nice patterns, I will have to look for the ones with the best banding when they have shed.

 

[MysticExotics]

Congratulations on the new hatchlings!!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

Murphy got me a little on this one- only 3 cinders in the clutch (of 12) so hopefully when I get to popping them there will be at least one female to keep for the project. I can't complain too much because the normals have really nice patterns and might keep the ones with the best banding...