Thanks for all the nice coments. Yes she is at day 75 i really can't believe she is gravid either. I just hope she has babies in there at least a couple anyway. If she does have babies in there I'm hoping they will have more of a pattern than she does.
I am a texbook lover myself and she is a mess. She is one of the craziet basins I have ever seen, at birth, color change and end result. Her father was born with more white at birth and did not develop anymore during his color change. Noel was born with almost as much white as her dad similar pattern partially green with red dots all over her. It was obvious that something major was going to happen to a snake that was already smokin. As the red circles disapeared white developed.
I think she was a fluke and it will be hard for anyone to reproduce her or her sister Flower girl. Her Mother produced 4 litters and nothing close to Noel has ever popped out again. Flower girl took her fathers snowflaking and took it to a whole nother level.
I lucked out and ended up getting the 2 pics of the litter from Paul Miles Noel and Flower girl. It cost me $18500. I have already turned down 25k for flower girl and would not take double that for Noel.
Here is a pic of Noel at a month of age. If you look close you can see posible white everywhere. Its funny because whenever I talk about Noel my wife is like She has some big crossbars under all that white.
Took this shot over the weekend
EdM
Freaks or not
I think for sure the "Freak Gene" was in Paul, look at the litter, 1/3 ended up with more white than dad, 1/3 with comparable white, and the ohter 1/3 less.
So if you breed those females to almost as nice of males, or if you can get a male sib, you might endup with somthing even more insane than Noel.
Im excited to see what kinda freaks of white come out of that thing, but way more excited about the textbook projects you have comming.
The best part is your the keeping the best of the best, so your stuff just keeps getting better! Each generation better than the last!
Amen to that brother! I have been harrasing them all, setting up purchase just to tell them to go themselves and stay off our Forum. Hopeing for a face to face introduction. But for now as my employees say Ed will just grind you to the ground with his words!!!!!!
Yea Paul defintely had the freek gene on. But you really had to look for it his crossbars a stripe grabbed everyone attention. But he had flecking on 3/4 of his markings. He was born in a litter of 3 from a mother who was below average in markings. I did not get to see the dad he has passes. I think if he would have been bred to something like Tiger that Tony owns all of our jaws would be on the floor.
Yes I am pretty excited with my textbook projects. But in the next 2 years I have some diamond project that will hopefull produce some of the craziest diamond snakes on the plannet. Its hard to imagine snakes what they could look like.
Ed M.
Ed, Noel's pic as a baby is amazing. i never saw a Basin baby with all that color going on. Def. one of a kind. She is looking great in the following pic also as a gravid adult!! THanks so much for sharing.
Ed , do you have pics of her siblings per chance?
How's Noel doing, Ed?
Eli