jleonard
New member
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
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
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. 
I'm wishing you the best of luck with this project! 
Nice, wide stripes without a single connecting band - they're gorgeous! And I'm loving their symmetry! 
