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Desert Females?

Occidentalis said:
That's a nice looking animal, but with the eye issues and the feeding issues, if it lived in my house it would be certainly spending the night with the kingsnakes.
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I have to agree.

If was a better eater, I would give it a chance. I don't assist feed too many times before I've had my fill & either give them 2 feeding chances to eat on their own, then I will cull. Luckily, I deal with mostly boa babies and it is rare that one won't eat.


I will be seeing my friend this weekend that has the hypothesis about the desert females needing to be big girls & I'll ask him, if I remember.
 
Snake-Queen said:
I will be seeing my friend this weekend that has the hypothesis about the desert females needing to be big girls & I'll ask him, if I remember.
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That would be great to hear what they say. Perhaps it is too late for the Desert morph, but perhaps if this situation arises again in a new morph, it would be nice to perhaps have a plan/idea in place.
 
Robert Walker said:
That would be great to hear what they say. Perhaps it is too late for the Desert morph, but perhaps if this situation arises again in a new morph, it would be nice to perhaps have a plan/idea in place.
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That theory has been passed around for a few years now...I guess people just WANT to believe it
 
hhmoore said:
That theory has been passed around for a few years now...I guess people just WANT to believe it
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Sure, I have heard it before as well. It would be great to know if someone actually put it into practice and attempted some kind of Sub-Saharan beast of a female OR did it never make it that far and it stayed at the theory level only.
 
Is this what you guys are talking about?
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No - desert ghost is a recessive trait, and unrelated to the desert morph.
 
The first reference via Google I can find for the idea is back in 2011. So, assuming someone started the project and procured a breeding age desert male and some sub-Saharan females around then, put them through QT, paired them, etc. then the resulting desert female offspring, assuming any were produced, would be starting to breed about now, yes?
 
bcr229 said:
The first reference via Google I can find for the idea is back in 2011. So, assuming someone started the project and procured a breeding age desert male and some sub-Saharan females around then, put them through QT, paired them, etc. then the resulting desert female offspring, assuming any were produced, would be starting to breed about now, yes?
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Depends ... the theory I've heard have been that the female should be 2500g+ and a minimum of 2 yrs or so.
 
I was cruising Royal Constrictor Designs and found this girl. She's adorable. If I had my set ups ready I would have purchased her.

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