New Hognose Morph??
 

Soooooo, my fiance and I recently got into the hobby of breeding hognose snakes. In 2011, we started out with two females that we purchased at a local pet shop (one that appeared to be a normal western, and the other that appeared to be a green morph). About a month later, we traded the normal female at a reptile show for a normal male.

After cooling them for a few months over the winter, we decided to let them have a "go" at breeding. In April 2012, the female had a clutch of 20 eggs. We put the eggs aside and waited...

Just a couple days ago, the eggs began to hatch (BTW, only half the eggs survived). The attached picture is what the babies look like.

Over the weekend, we took them to the reptile show to let our friends look at, and everyone seemed to be impressed by what we produced and they were eager to buy them. However, they were also baffled as to what the "morph" was.

So now we are posting them here to get opinions on what the morph may be. We've decided to hold a couple back for future breeding projects and to see if we can prove the morph that we are producing. We haven't sold any yet, but we may end up posting some online after we are sure they are eating well.

We also hope to have more eggs soon, since the pair that we have are continuing to breed! :)

Let us know what you think.

Enjoy!

Jeff

http://www.jeffersonleonard.com/hognose.jpg

Wow!
 

Appears to be a reverse stripe AKA tiger/banded and very nice ones at that. :thumbsup: There's a few lines of it going around, I hear about Charlie Shanklin's most often and supposedly his albinos have been throwing tigerish animals for years, also I believe it's considered to be some sort of line bred trait at the moment. I've also seen it randomly pop up in a few animals from a hypo clutch.
Hopefully your new line will prove to be something more concrete. Personally my fingers are crossed for more dominant/incomplete dominant things~ :yesnod:
Congratulations though, that's awesome!!! :?party: I'm wishing you the best of luck with this project! :D

Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the input. Just about all the ones hatched appeared to have this trait, so hopefully we'll have some very concrete lines coming from our pair. :D

Awesome! Do you think you could get a pic of the entire clutch up?
Also I won't be back on until tonight, but I'm sending you a PM now. Just can't help it, I love me some good tiger stuff~ :D

Absolutely! We only ended up with 7 good hatchlings, but they are all gorgeous. I will get something posted in a bit. :)

Here's a pic of the entire clutch (with and without flash).

http://www.jeffersonleonard.com/hognose_clutch.gif

If you can't see it good, go here to see them:
http://www.jeffersonleonard.com/hognose_clutch.gif

Let me know what you think. :)

I hope you guys are planning on keeping JA01. That one is absolutely stunning, and probably the best looking tiger I've ever seen. JA04 is really nice looking as well.

Good luck with these guys. They are definitely a really striking tiger.

:iagree: Nice, wide stripes without a single connecting band - they're gorgeous! And I'm loving their symmetry! :thumbsup:
They're all very nice though, thank you so much for sharing these pics! :D

Awesome! Any of these for sale? I'd love to have one in my collection!

those are so cute, congrats! I like JA04

Please take it to PMs.