Kyle James

<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> spam_<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> Where is this guy? I struck a deal with him in the Spring and he is not returning my e-mails. He is from Texas and has a Ball Python collection. Any clues for me? Please help. THX!

Full name, otherwise I'll delete.

Also, elaborate a bit more. Was he supposed to buy something from you or sell you something? Also, what was his email addy? Details are what make this board work.

It seems to take kyle james a while to get back to people.
Usually a week to a few weeks or he just forgets.
I did a deal with him and while were exchanging emails about the snakes he was real quick to write back but now after the deal is done, it takes him a while to answer my questions.

-Mike Gearino
www.TOTALLYREPTILES.com

Kyle James' email addy is (was) jamesjd@earthlink.net &nbsp;that email is registered to a Sarah James.

I am waiting for a pair of hets to be proven out before I make my final decision on this person.

I cannot recomment his customer service or his ethics.

I have his physical address but will not post it here publically.

James Bryan

He sold us 0.2 het for albino, but did not ship the snakes until we threatened legal action. He shipped them immediately afterwards. We received two nice females but no paperwork as was clearly stated and promised. I still have the 0.2 "het" for albino he sold us. He never did send paperwork as promised. He repeatedly promised to send paperwork, even going so far as saying it was sent on several occasions but it never arrived. He stopped answering the phone and stopped replying to emails.

We bought a male albino to prove out these females sooner than our het male could. We now have eggs incubating as of two weeks ago so will find out soon whether they were hets or not. If they are hets, I will post it here.

I heard from another breeder that he was attempting to once again sell "het" albino females showing the paperwork that was never sent to me.

If they are hets, then we were not ripped off, but were also lied to repeatedly.

Update to come after hatching.

James Bryan

The eggs hatched. 7 normal appearing babies from one of these so called "het for albino" and our VPI High Contrast Albino male we pruchased from BARR. Should have some albinos right? WRONG
Kyle James scams again.





See any albino

James Bryan
Who was scammed by kyle james along with plenty of others.

I don't know anything about this situation but I'm a little puzzled as to why you feel you have been scammed because you have 7 normal looking babies.

What did you mate her to?? If she's normal het for albino and you mate her to another normal, the babies will be normal, wont they?

Or, if you mate her to a normal het for albino, there's only a chance you'll get an albino in the clutch but if you mate her to an albino, you should get some albino and some normals. Am I wrong here?

Also, isn't "het" just a possibility based on hidden traits, not a guarantee??

"het" means the animal is carrying half the genes required to display a recessive trait.

James I questioned you on one of the other threads and hadn't read this one, I apologize.

Still however unlikely, the odds might be against you this clutch.

I'd say its safe to go with your instinct on this one though

He said those eggs were from the "het" from Kyle James bred to an albino male.

Somewhere around half of the babies should have been albino; any normal looking baby from that clutch is 100% het albino.

While there is a very SLIM chance of producing no albinos from an albino x het clutch, it is pretty safe to assume that in this case that the "hets" from Kyle James are normals.

I'm sorry...I'm still having trouble with this. Like I said, I don't know the seller or anything but I think he's being treated unfairly here and it bothers me.

If you have two Ball pythons, that are positively, without a doubt het for Albino and they are mated, the offspring will have 4 possible outcomes; AA, Aa, Aa, aa. This means that 1/4 will be albino. 3/4 of them will appear normal and will possibly be het for albino but only 2 of those 3 will actually be truly hets.

So, when one sells the offspring, they will say they are "het for albino." There's no way to know for sure until the snake is mated later and the offspring are accounted for. However, the seller has not misrepresented the snake...they've done the best they could and as a buyer, you're taking a chance. There are no guarantees with genes that don't outwardly present themselves.

And, in this case...with only 7 eggs, isn't there the possibility that the snake is truly het but the normal came through on the high side?