ALTERNA
I have a pair of w/c Juno Rd Alternas that produce anerythristic babies. They were collected in '93 & '94 on the same set of cutts but a year apart. I was lucky enough to end up with a anerythristic female (98), a possible het female and a possible het male not to mention I now have the parents as well. I will be breeding the anerythristic back to her father this year in hopes of producing more anerys.

HALLOWEEN, OREO, REVERSE HALLOWEEN PUEBLANS
These are the only snakes other than the Rootbeer Corn that I have coined myself. Back in '93 I purchased some adult apricot Pueblans from a guy named Steve Henderson. He had bought them from three people, (Applegate, Sipperly, Hammick). The first year I bred the best looking pair together and the not so good looking pair together. I got average babies so the next year I decided to switch males to see if the babies looked any better. Well, out of six eggs from one clutch all six came out weird (Halloween) they were all apricot with black saddles. There were two perfect ones and one was yellow and black, one yellow black and a few red rings and one that was pure black with red dots in every scale. That snake died shortly after birth and I have never seen another like it.

I was so excited, I started running ads in the back of the Reptiles magazines in '96 for Halloween Pueblans. My whole focus turned towards Pueblans and before I knew it I had close to fifty adults. To my surprise I didn't produce a single Halloween or even a aberrant one the next year. I kept all the babies thinking they were hets? The next year I produced two more? I was really confused now but was still very excited. I started producing some black and whites that were outstanding as well. I started calling them Oreo Pueblans and even went as far as to label some of the better ones Double-stuff Oreos cause they had wide white and little to no red. I also came up with some weird ones from another group of Pueblans that I started calling reverse Halloweens. They were cream color background with big long pure black saddles like a Eastern King.

Back to the Halloweens. O.K. so now after four years I am ready to put one of my killer Halloweens back to his mother. She laid eight eggs her first clutch and six on her second clutch. The first clutch started hatching the day I was leaving for my annual Texas Alterna trip. I slit the eggs because I could not stand not knowing? There were no halloweens? how could this be????????? The second clutch hatched a couple months later and they were ALL halloweens but I had to freeze them cause they were so badly kinked? Now I was really lost on this whole thing. By '00 I had produced only 12 total Halloweens and I had no idea how the gene worked. I still don't know so I still produce a couple here and there but mainly sell them as a novelty. They are awesome looking snakes but I can't say that you will re-produce any if you buy some.

As for the Oreos and reverse Halloweens, I have produced alot of the reverses and they are genetic but I think the Oreos are much like the Halloweens and its a crap shoot every time a clutch is hatching.
Buyer beware if you ever see anybody selling a het for Halloween Pueblan.

PIEBALD BAIRDS RAT
I collected a yearling female Piebald Bairds in '97 in the Davis Mts of Texas. The spot is about the size of a quarter but looks like the real thing. I aquired a male two years ago from the same spot and last year bred them together. She laid five eggs and all hatched just fine. I ended up with 1.4 so I kept the male and two females and gave two female to my best friend Aaron to raise up. I hope to produce more (hets ?) this year and by next year the male from last year will be breeding size and I can prove this thing out? I won't be selling any of them till I know if its genetic or not.

Shannon