Re: Subocs are great animals

Posted by Kelly on August 14, 2000 at 23:56:25:

In Reply to: Subocs are great animals posted by TDMac on August 13, 2000 at 14:32:19:

: The very first snake I got was a female Suboc eight years ago. They are absolutely awesome. I now have two normal females and a Blonde male. By the way, the Blonde form of these animals is a normally occurring color phase in the wild. Almost every year there at least a few of them captured in Brewster and Presidio counties. Every year I produce het for Blonde babies and I had a lady tell me that she didn't want het babies, that she was looking for "pure" babies. I just surmised that she wasn't very well educated about the species.
That's an interesting story. I wonder if that lady had more of a misunderstanding
of genetics rather than a lack of knowledge about the species. I've kept snakes for years, but when I first got into the hobby seriously I took a biology course just so I could understand what the term "heterozygous" meant. You'd be surprised at how a lot of people have trouble understanding simple Mendel based genetics.

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: : The very first snake I got was a female Suboc eight years ago. They are absolutely awesome. I now have two normal females and a Blonde male. By the way, the Blonde form of these animals is a normally occurring color phase in the wild. Almost every year there at least a few of them captured in Brewster and Presidio counties. Every year I produce het for Blonde babies and I had a lady tell me that she didn't want het babies, that she was looking for "pure" babies. I just surmised that she wasn't very well educated about the species. : That's an interesting story. I wonder if that lady had more of a misunderstanding : of genetics rather than a lack of knowledge about the species. I've kept snakes for years, but when I first got into the hobby seriously I took a biology course just so I could understand what the term "heterozygous" meant. You'd be surprised at how a lot of people have trouble understanding simple Mendel based genetics.

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