Who are the pituophis fans here?

I’ve got two little sassmasters (bullsnakes) at the moment. I would like to get a Cape Gopher at some point, they’re gorgeous animals.

Male Ballium Axanthic het Whiteside, Patternless, Albino, poss het T. hypo

Female Whiteside het B. Axanthic, Patternless, Albino, poss het T. hypo

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Finally pulled the trigger this past year to keep a species I’ve admired forever. I’ve had bull snakes back before morphs started showing up, but northern pines always took the cake, for me.



Our future includes, hopefully, a pair of albino whiteside (the original “snow”) bullsnakes, and I have been trying to locate one other project that seems will take an additional year, I’ll keep my mouth shut so I don’t jinx it for myself!

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very nice examples and both looking super healthy too :+1:

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Great decision , great snakes. Best of luck with the ‘secret’ project.

Pituophis ROCK!

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Calamity was in a mood today, but she needed to be cleaned up after regurging and laying in it.

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Great video there buddy , would you agree with me that 90% of the time this behaviour is borne out of fear not pure aggression. I find this is certainly the case with annectens

Got love an animal with spirit and Calamity sure has that :orange_heart:

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Here’s one of my breeder males , a T+ annectens who just kinda popped out unexpectedly from my albino hi-red lines.

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Another annectens , this one is a young female and is a result of my quest to ‘turn up the orange’ to 11 :orange_heart:

The eye colour/s are something I tend to pay close attention to , this is often a key to determining new and potential new variants.
This is clearly illustrated in the pic below , note the non all red eye colour traditionally associated with the albino (amel) variant ( same animal as above pic)

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It is 100% defensive. Aggressive behavior is much more forward moving. There is a distinct difference in an animal holding its ground or moving in aggressively. As far as I can see the only time these guys move aggressively is when food, or perceived food, is involved and possibly with territorial disputes.

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Woah! She’s crazy beautiful, super bright and colorful.

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Here’s one for all my Pituophis Brothers on here.

Produced from my OG Lemke bloodlines stock , been growing up nice and slow.

F2 aberrant deppei jani.

THANKS for Looking!

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Thanks for the positive feedback bud , much appreciated for sure!.

I certainly feel very blessed to have created so many beautiful and unique annectens over the decades , never taken for granted and always a honour.

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Oh munchies goodness!!! That’s a gorgeous jani, always one of my favorite locals and that one is top notch :+1:. I’m jealous man.

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Thanks jrc , I’m so glad I opted to keep that one back , the aberrant markings were the initial reason. I’m so happy that the colours eventually developed so wonderfully.
Over the decades I’ve been lucky enough to hatch out some outstanding examples , not to mention a purely unique hypo male. :+1:

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The tail of my hypo deppei jani . note the complete lack of any black / dk brown compared to his lady friend (on the right edge of pic)

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Another pic for comparison , this aberrant female has a nice red tail , but unlike the hypo some black remains

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Seems like I’m part of this club, too. Howdy!

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Just went through the thread,@pituophisart you’re killing me, amazing animals. I love deppei jani. I love all the Pine wild types too. Your morphs are gorgeous, yarhhhhh! Love it.

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I love my Bull and Gopher but damn they sure do poop alot lol

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Thanks Gem,

Appreciate the positive feedback , more awesome stuff hatching out right now inc. triple visual rarities :+1:

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