Got Orange???

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ok, so my good buddy and fellow Honduran-fanatic Cranwill kicked my a$$ in the arrberant category this year (couldn't happen to a nicer clown........heh heh :p ), but check this little one out. The red bands and orange bands are reversed! Well, not really reversed, just different in size, the opposite of what I usually get! Large orange bands and smaller red bands!! Red is overrated anyways!

Funny thing was, I went to check on the eggs at 1am, and this one hatched out. I thought it was a damn hypo!!! (parents are possible het hypos). I ALMOST ran to the phone to call Marc B. ha ha but it was 4am his time, so I just couldn't do it.

http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/got_orange1a.jpg



Went back to bed, and took this photos this afternoon. The part I like best, is that there is NO black band immediately behind the head (right on the neck). Its just PURE orange! :D


http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/got_orange1b.jpg


http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/got_orange2.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/got_orange3.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/got_orange4.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/got_orange5.jpg

[marisa]

Wow that's really neat looking Jeff. You and these pics are sucking me into a snake species I have never ever really liked.....

Crap.

Marisa

[MarcB]

What is wrong with you guys out west, can't you guys produce normal looking tri-colors, must be the water!!!..lol..

Jeff my friend, I should of never sold you that trio!

Congrats, looking good.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Heh heh.....

Nice Hypos you hatched by the way man! Insane! :D

[Simon]

Wow...
and we can all see that you're extremely happy with this little one with the amount of photos taken already...LOL!!!

Nice looking animal~
you're right that 'reverse' coloration is really neat~!

[Stockwell]

Yeah, what a bunch of non symmetrical freaks you Western guys are pumping into the gene pool...:)

Jeff, that thing is killer... I think you can safely call it a "Sockhead Tangerine"

My 04 crop is hatching today, and my female also laid her second clutch this morning.. Most were duds as per usual for the second clutches I always get, but what timing.

[Scales Zoo]

Jeff, that is an absolutely amazing looking snake! Cranny's clutch was amazing, but that one is the nicest honduran I've ever seen.

Ryan

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thansk Ryan. You know, I'm almost starting to like that she's not that arberrant. Wonder what a hypo would add to her? Or albino? Crazy man! I think its safe to say that there won't be any tipping on this snake, LOL!

Roy post some pics brotha! You started this whole deal, so come join the fun man!

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

Damnit Favelle! All this hondo stuff of yours, its killing me, now I have to get some hondos(well at least a pair of albinos!). Man good luck and kick @$$ snake! Thanks for the pics!

C.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha thank YOU bro! :D

[Colonel_SB]

Wow Jeff that is awsome you Da man!

[Stockwell]

Jeff, I'll bet that killer snake you posted above is a male... let me know. I've hatched perfectly clean ones like that, in fact many and ever damn one was always a male

Ps
I'll put up pics of mine when they are all out.
They've just started pipping

[Will]

Jeff, THAT is one nice looking Hondo. I assume that came out of your spotted line, or is this coming way out of left-field...?

[Tim_Cranwill]

Pretty sweet snakes, especially that reverse one! :)

Have you ever bred the pair that produced these before?

[Jeff_Favelle]

Yep. Last year. And they gave me this: Remember? LOL!

http://members.shaw.ca/gallerya/TaF3_babies_spot4.jpg

[vanderkm]

Very nice Jeff - that extension of the orange in place of the red seems to be the way these spotted patterns develop. From what I have seen, in virtually all of them, the 'spots' are really areas where the red bands have been reduced to the point where they are absent.

The elongated orange bands - like Roy produced in his selective breeding of the foundation stock with perfect but long triads - have just become longer with more selection in that direction and have eliminted the red bands. Noticed this on your baby from last year and it is even more apparent on the ones from this year.

I have seen some tri-color spotted photos and they are all white with black markings instead of the orange you have here. Have not seen any that are red with black markings. That long neck marking (pushing the first black band backwards) seems to by typical of the extended orange.

Let us know if that is a male, like Roy says - very clean hatchling!!

Congrats - gorgeous babies as always,

mary v.

[Classic]

Very Very Nice. So when's the hondo convention?

Brian
hwh

[Canada_Club]

OMG, those are just AMAZING! Congrats!

[Clownfishie]

Yup. I'll take that one :p Thanks!! ;)

[Stockwell]

Here's the first one out..they are huge this year
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1801tangerines04small.jpg

[Clownfishie]

OoOoo... very nice Roy! Can't wait to see the rest of them :D Any ideas where the babies will be going? I'm pretty sure you don't sell directly to the public anymore, eh? :p


Jen

[vanderkm]

Gorgeous Roy!! Love the head markings on those youngsters. Definately showing the results of selection for clean color and even bands!!

mary v.