KNOBLOCKI
I have been working with Knoblocki for seven years now. I have produced some outrageous animals in doing so. I started by buying some snakes from Dave Long back in the early 90s. His snakes were first generation babies from Buzz Ross. He produced some even nicer ones (second generation) and that's the ones I bought. I also purchased some others from Buzz in '97. I raised up the second generation offspring and bred them together- WOW! Now I had some third generation babies that were outstanding. They were almost hypo,just pinstripe black that only goes down from the top of the snake about half way. They are very orange and are missing some black bands all together creating a washed out hollow spot here and there. These third generation babies are big enough and will breed this year (02) for the first time. I can't wait to see what they will produce. This will be the end of the line breeding on these guys and I have some others to outcross to the next generation.


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.


NELSONI
I have a couple different Nelsoni strains that are aberrant. I have some that are co-dominant (showing up in the first generation) and some that are just recessive. I have bred some of these with the albinos and now I am raising up the dbl-hets in hopes to produce some albinos that are aberrant as well.

SINALOANS
I am working with the Applegate splotched Sinaloans. The are highly aberrant and some have some pied on them.


RUTHVENI
I have some of the most outrageous aberrant Ruthveni you will ever see. They originated from Lloyd Lemke snakes. I have bred these to albinos and I now am raising up some dbl-hets to produce albinos that are aberrant.

APPLEGATE PYROS
What can I say? I am sure you have seen these. They are the most awesome pyros out there. Red and white with just a hint of black here or there.

SPOTTED MEXICAN MILKS
These are Applegate Spotted Annulata. Some are perfect all the way down and some just show spots here and there. The one thing they all seem to have in common is that they all have black bellies.

AXANTHIC AGALMAS
I am working with the axanthic Agalmas. If you have never seen these you are missing out. They are kinda pink/purple and are just gorgeous. I only have hets so it will be a few years before I have the real deal for sale but there are only a couple people with these. I got my stock from Matt Smith.

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