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