I’ve been making some changes recently to my breeding plans, scaling down on ball pythons and expanding to come colubrids I’ve become passionate about. I decided to add variable king snakes! I got my original male Tyrion as a pet but he’s gorgeous and I’m really excited to work with this species.
My original male:
And the girl I just picked up for him:
Does anyone else work with these and have any tips?
Very cool, I love these guys! It’s so neat how they have such an array of colour schemes, and as I understand it, you tend to get that variety regardless of what the parents look like (though please correct me if I’m wrong about that). They always seemed like they’d be a really fun species to breed because of that. I love “rainbow clutches/litters,” where there’s a bunch of colour variety in the babies.
Your pair is gorgeous!! That yellow, orange and black colouring is one of my favourites for variable kings. Can’t wait to see what they produce for you in the future, super exciting!!!
Amazingly beautiful kings!
That’s a great looking pair.
Definitely should be a neat project. Lots of surprises I hope.
I am hoping for some surprises too! I’ve always worked with ball pythons, which have very obvious morphs and genetics. It will be interesting to work with a species like variable kings that have so many different phenotypes that aren’t predictable by Mendelian genetics. My understanding is that the parent phenotypes do play a role, so if I have two similar-looking parents I should get more similar-looking babies, but we’ll see if that holds true!
What bewitching animals they are! I love clutches with a lot of variations in appearance. I wish you many beautiful future babies!
Those guys are totally too cool! Can’t wait to see what babies they produce!
