Adult Pair of Albinos

Here's a great picture to illustrating the size difference between a Kenyan Male and a Kenyan Female. This female albino is about 400 grams and the male albino is about 100 grams. We're hoping for a couple nice albino babies at the end of August or early September.

Mark@LHALegal.com

Requested Pictures

Albino Female 2008

Albino Female 2009

High Orange Female 2009 (Miller Line)

Anery Splash 1

Anery Splash 2

Anery Splash 3

Tomorrow is the Dixie Reptile Show...here's the inventory list!

It has been a tough week for the Huntley family. Jennifer and the kids have shared two seperate bugs with each other along with their Grandmother who would normally come to the house and care for the kids when Jenn is sick......with Grandmother not being available, it left only one alternative....ME! The positive of me spending the week at home with the sick was I had time to get organized for this show...

Remember http://www.dixiereptileshow.com/ has directions to the Zambonie (Shriners Zamora Temple) which is the exit right after the Summit heading towards Atlanta on 459, I think....I'm going to map quest it and I've been there, to be sure.


2009 Normals
2009 Anerys (black and whites)
Albinos (2 2009 females and 1 sub adult female)
Egyptian Male 2009
High Orange Flame Male 2008
Normal het Anery 2008
Dodoma Female 2009 (superflame)
High Orange Tiger Male 2008 Breeder
Snow Male 2009
Stripes Male and Female 2009
Anery Male Breeder
Normal Female Breeder
and a couple other surprises................

Western Hognoses
Plain
Het Albino
Red Phase
Green Phase

Hope to see everyone there. You can email me at Mark@LHALegal.com if you have any questions.

This Seasons Breeding Pairings

First off, I'd like to thank Scott Miller for helping me sort out the matchups. Its a pretty daunting task when you have 100 different directions you can go with multiple morphs that can be produced.

When making the decision on what to pair with what, Scott and I discussed what I ultimately hoped to produce. My personal favorites are stripes and reduced patterned KSBs (you may know them as Dodomas which is actually a locality but that's for another day). Scott produced white stripes and white tigers last year by breeding a rufescen to an anery and then breeding the resulting stripe (het anery) to an anery to get white stripes and white tigers. It was the first white stripes and white tigers produced that we know of. Consequently, they were not cheap to purchase, new morphs never are, after years of patience and a little luck, it's understandable. Unfortunately, the stripe het anery I purchased from Scott isn't quite old enough to breed so the first thing I did was holdback two anery female breeders for later this year.

Initially, if you wanted a stripe you had to have a 100% Rufescen. You could breed this rufescen to any KSB and could expect about 50% visually normal stripes and 50% visually normal tigers or tigerishes. I say visually because if you bred your rufescen to an albino female, you'd get a visually normal stripe/tiger het for albino, as an example. However, you can increase the odds of producing stripes by taking an adult male stripe and breeding it to any female KSB. You will still receive visually normal stripes but your litter should consist of all or almost all stripes.

High Orange Stripe Male:

Being a fan of stripes, I have paired a male High Orange Stripe with an anery female and an high orange female. Somtime in August I expect high orange stripes and stripes het anery from these two pairings.

True Dodoma Male:

Another favorite of mine is the reduced patterned snakes, with little to no black on the face and spots along the body. This type of pattern has recently been bred into anery's (black and whites) that results in a large amount of white with the contrasting black pattern similiar to the below dodoma. I have paired my dodoma male with an anery female and am hoping I get a reduced patterned visual normal het anery. My plan is to hold back 1.2 (one male and two females) that are the most reduced and in about three or four years breed the male to the two females. In the mean time, I hope to breed the holdback male to an anery sometime next year when he is ready. I also have this male paired up with a normal female that appears to have a naturally reduced pattern (not anywhere near this guy below) and am hoping they are able to produce some nice normal reduced pattern Kenyans.

(Running out of time, many more pairings to discuss...keep checking back and I'll update them as I get time)

Thanks for looking
Mark

Dixie Reptile Show April 24th!

I am going to bring a lot of great stuff to the upcoming show.

I have gone through my holdbacks and have decided what I will keep and what we are going to let go from our 2009 stock. All the holdbacks will be at this show, albinos, snows, stripes, etc. A lot of good morphs, including some high white type anerys.

I also have some breeders and sub adults I'll be bringing. If there is something specific you'd like to see (you don't have to commit to buy it) email me ( Mark@LHALegal.com ) and I'll bring it along.

I will be doing this show alone so feel free to come by and sit and chat for a while. It gets lonely at the tables sometime!

Don't forget the Dixie Reptile Show has moved to the Zamboni Temple (ok, the Zamora Temple) off of 459 right past the Summit exit.

For directions and more information http://www.dixiereptileshow.com/

Look forward to seeing you there.

Mark Huntley

Inventory list is relatively up to date at our website http://www.sandboamorphs.com/

Spell Check

I can no longer spell. I am a slave to spell check. My spelling at times has gotten so bad that spell check can't even help. Case in point, this morning I was drawing a map to our home (we live a few miles down a dirt road in very rural Alabama, mapquest cannot find us) for the pest control guys to eradicate some carpenter bees that have set up shop on my children's playground. As is customary with rural maps, locally known landmarks are placed along the way to encourage the increasingly doubtful driver to drive just a bit farther. One of those landmarks is 'florist' shop and because I was hand drawing the map, spell check was not available. I handed the guy the map and he looked through it to make sure he understood and probably most importantly, he could read my chicken scratch. Next thing I know he is making fun of the way I spelled 'florist'. At first I was slightly embarrassed because some of my employees were around and they were all getting a good laugh at my sad attempt. Then as if the skies opened up it dawned on me, who the hell cares if I can spell 'florist', I'm a dude, in fact, it probably is a good thing I can't spell 'florist'. As the laughter grew I settled the situation by asking the guy to spell 'douche'. He turned red and I'm hoping he is headed to my house past that florist shop to spray for bees, if not, at least I now know how to spell 'florist'!

I had spelled it on the map 'flourest'......I know, sad.

Have a great weekend.

Mark Huntley

Our BRAND NEW Western Hognoses!!!!

Tuesday we received two Western Hognose Males and two Western Hognose Het Albino males. Then on Thursday we received  Western Red Phase and Green Phase males.
They hiss, they bob and weave and generally entertain.

Green Phase Western Hognose Male

Red Phase Western Hognose Male

Western Hognose Het Albino (Amelanistic)

Western Hognose Male

Some New Pictures of Old and New Kenyan Sand Boas

Jennifer has been working with angles of the light in her photo cube for these mirror shots. Some have turned out pretty cool.

Female Lavener Albino 2009

Trio of Female Albinos....sunglow albino (picture didn't pick up the color) up front, lavender albino on right and back left is a spider albino.

High White Female Anery

High Orange Male Kenyan

Female Snow

2.2 Snows....both parents were yellow snows...they are slowly turning yellow after each shed...will take a year or two before they are fully yellow.

The below pictures are of my Female Albino Splash. You can read more about the Splash Morph in my March blogs.....

Upcoming Show - April 24th - DIXIE REPTILES SHOW

From 9 to 3 on April 24th we will be at the Dixie Reptiles Show http://www.dixiereptileshow.com/ I will have over 30 Kenyans for sale and am planning on bringing some of my better ones for display.

The show moved to the Zambora Shriners Temple off of I-459 a few minutes from where the show use to be in downtown Birmingham http://www.dixiereptileshow.com/map.htm . Make sure to print out directions to the new location. It is a much larger room and has easier access to parking. The Summit on 280 is one exit down the road and we tried Flips Burgers for the first time at the last show.

I am happy to deliver any purchases at the show along with bring specialty Kenyan Sand Boa morphs for sale or just to take a look.

Purchased some Western Hognoses

I pulled the trigger on a couple Western Hognoses last week and am 'patiently' (maybe not so patiently) waiting their arrival.

I ended up purchasing 6 to start out with.....a red, a green, two normals and two normal het albino. I had originally planned on purchasing only 1 hog but I was also in the process of purchasing multiple Kenyans and the people who had the Kenyans also had some hogs and next thing I know they are packaged all together in one big order. The history of events is a bit fuzzy but basically, I think I was given a good deal from some real reputable folks.

It appears they are a good species to couple with the Kenyans. Hotspots are similiar, care appears to be similiar, and their color variations are also similiar to the Kenyans. I'm interested to see their bluff defense where they can flatten their heads like a cobra and hiss and carry on until you call them on it. Stay tuned, I may be liquidating some Hognoses shortly...lol.

Inventory List Updated

I have updated the inventory list on my web page. http://www.sandboamorphs.com/ I purchased a few quality subadult and breeders this weekend so keep checking back for additional snakes to be added. You can always email me Mark@LHALegal.com or call 1-888-498-8952 if you are looking for something specific.