‘23 Holdbacks and The Rest of The Collection

[deanaii]

Thanks! There are other posts with pics in them too. The Bantams took over my posting too!

‘23 Corns From Solar Serpents?

[deanaii]

This one is a Miami Sunkissed Stripe het Cinder female.

[caron]

@tommccarthy

Now you got me thinking of getting one of these some day.

Dean has a way of putting thoughts like this into our heads…….

[caron]

You got a lotta catchin up to do! . But it’s going to be a lovely journey!!!

[deanaii]

Some girls. All ‘23s. Most made by @solarserpents, but one made by me and one by Serpentine Works.

[snakes_of_shadowlake]

@tommccarthy This is Dumpling, a full brother to the one you like. He’s still not quite like a grey-banded king, but he has larger spots down the back and more red. He still has some growing to do, and I wonder if he’ll pull more yellow as he does.

[snakes_of_shadowlake]

@deanaii I think this one of mine has some common heritage with Piperita:

Calla Lily: Buttermint tessera stripe 66% lavender

Are you planning to cross her into the bantam line?

[cmills]

@snakes_of_shadowlake

Are you planning to cross her into the bantam line?

I was just about to ask this, a peppermint bantam might be too good for me to pass up

[deanaii]

So pretty!! I don’t have that plan for Piperita yet, but it might happen. I have Bantam Amels now (Inferno and Saffron). Other people I know are doing some outcrossing. Right now my only actual outcross target is Bantam Topaz.

[deanaii]

The genes are already there in the Bantam family, but Bantam Cinder + Amel (Peppermint) is hard to hit alone because of the prevalence of Sunkissed and Caramel in the family.

Bantam Amel Shatter (Cinder + Sunkissed) is much more likely.

[snakes_of_shadowlake]

I’m aiming for one of those, for sure! Amel shatters are so cool!

[deanaii]

My friend Mikelle at @serpentineworks is breeding a male Amel Shatter to a Bantam this season.

[deanaii]

Impulse pairing. Evidence in lower left of pic. 1.1 ‘21 A-Grade Miami Tesseras from Low Belly Reptiles.

[caron]

There ya go again!!!

[deanaii]

None of us is getting younger, so it was time.

[snakes_of_shadowlake]

Looks like you’re having some fun outside of Bantam. Good for you!

[deanaii]

We’ll see!

[caryl]

Nice pair, Dean! Hope they give you lots of pretty babies. Impulse pairings are fine when you have such stock to support those impulses.

[deanaii]

Thanks Caryl! Bantam wasn’t unwelcome, but it killed lots of other fun plans that I acquired beautiful snakes for. But I couldn’t let this one go. They’re five this year. In their prime. I didn’t prep her, but she’s huge (600g). The male’s even bigger. I gave the female a jumbo after their session.

[caron]

Really really pretty Dean!