Tremendous Tricolors

2013 Potential Offspring & Price List

Mexican Milksnake

Prairie Kingsnakes

Lampropeltis triangulum annulata

Mexican Milksnakes are a great addition to any colubrid collection. Docile,readily eats mice, and does not grow much bigger than 36”. There are plenty of color and pattern mutations to choose from. Tremendous Tricolors is currently working with three different inheritable mutations of Mexican Milksnakes.

Normal.....$50.00 Amelanistic(Albino).....$1,000.00 Spotted.....$250.00 Pin-Banded.....$100.00

Heterozygous and intermediates.....(Inquire)

Lampropeltis calligaster calligaster

Prairie Kingsnakes in our personal opinion are one of the most underated species of kingsnakes available to the colubrid enthusiast. They can reach lengths of 50” but usually top out at 40-45”. They are very docile and come in a few different color and pattern mutations.

Normal.....$45.00 Amelanistics.....$65.00 Heterozygous Hypomelanism.....$75.00

Hypomelanistics.....(Inquire) Striped.....Price determined by the amount of striping

Louisiana Milksnake New Mexico Milksnake

California Kingsnakes Ruthven’s Kingsnake

Lampropeltis triangulum celaenops

New Mexico Milksnakes are smaller than Mexico Milksnakes usually never achieving a length of more than 28”. Unlike the Lousiana Milksnakes this smaller subspecies readily accepts pinkie mice as their first meals. There are many locales avail-able in the hobby and we are currently working with the only color mutation, anerythrism.

Hobbs, N.M. heterozygous anerythristic.....$250.00

Christmas Mountain, Brewster County, Texas.....$100.00

Lampropeltis getula california

California Kingsnakes are by far the most common kingsnakes available to the colubrid collector. They are found in the south west United States and North West Mex-ico. These snake can easily reach lengths of 50” plus. They start off as young powerhouse feeders and quickly grow into adults by their second to third year.

With many color and pattern mutations available and com-binations of them all it is hard to pick a favorite. There are hobbyists now working with locale specific animals. Tremendous Tricolors is working with the well known 50/50 de-sert phase. These snakes are typically black and white banded or aberrant. The amount of white and black are usually equal or having more white.

50/50 Desert Phase.....$$50.00

Lampropeltis triangulum amaura

Louisiana Milksnakes are a smaller subspecies than the Mexican Milksnake. Usually reaching no more than 24”. They are a little more delicate and not reccommended for the beginner enthusiast. These hatch out very tiny and usually only accept lizards as their first meal.

Liberty County, Texas Locale.....$100.00

Lampropeltis ruthveni

Ruthven’s Kingsnakes are also known as Queretaro Mountain Kingsnake,.Tremendous Tricolors is working with two locales, Amealco, Queretaro, Mexico and Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico. Only the Amealco locale has shown the amelanistic mutations but both locales have shown an aberrant/stripe mutation.

Amealco

Normal....$50.00 Amel.....$75.00 Aberrant.....(Inquire)

Tapalpa

Normal......$125.00 Aberrant.....(Inquire)

Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnake

Neonates - Subadults

We keep our neonates and subadults in typical kingsnake fashion. We house them in a rack system and provide a temperature gradient of 84F on the warm end and 72-76 on the cool end. Neonates are housed in shoe boxes and don’t move to a larger tub until the age of 1 1/2 to 2 years of age. We also provide a moist hide filled with damp sphagnum moss or moist cocopeat. The young hatchlings seem to utilize this more than the subadults and adults. Fresh water is essential at all times. We keep them on aspen bedding which is spot cleaned on a regular basis and changed monthly.

Adults

Our adults are kept in similar fashion as the younger ones but on a larger scale. We keep them in larger tubs that measure 28” long, 16” wide, and 6”tall. We also provide them with a moiust hide that is filled 2/3 of the way with cocopeat and the top third being moist New Zealand Long Strand sphagnum moss. As the moss dries out we spray to soak with a spray bottle. Females and males are housed separately through out most of the year. In early October we stop feeding our adults but keep the temperatures the same. After two weeks we turn off all heat and keep them at 72-76 for another two weeks. We do this to make sure there is no food left in their gut prior to going into brumation. At the beginning of No-vember we cool our adults to 50-55 F until February. When spring comes we bring the adults out and keep them at 65-72 for a week before turning heat back on and resuming feeding. We have seen no issues with not cooling neonates as they will usually eat all winter if kept at their summer time temperatures.

Lampropeltis knoblochi

Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnakes also known as Chihuahua Mountain Kingsnakes are some of the easiest mountain kingsnakes to keep. It is surprising that they are not more popular. This species takes up the largest part of our collection with multiple locales,lines, and color and pattern mutations.

Our Husbandry

San Juanito LineThis line has proven to have a genetic trait that greatly reduces the black. The very first hypomelanistic from this line was produced by Shannon Brown in 2008

Normals(pos. heterozygous hypomelanism)....$150.00

Heterozygous for Hypomelanism.....$500.00

Hypomelanistics.....$1,500.00

Generic HypomelanisticsIn 2008 a breeder in California produced a hypomela-nistic that was unrelated to the SanJuanito line. There is no lineage with this line. We were able to acquire the parents and also the hypomelanistic in 2012. This will be the first yea offering this line.

Normals(pos. heterozygous hypomelanism).....$150.00

Hypomelanistics.....$1,250.00 Hets.....$400.00

Aberrant/Clown Face/and High speckled sideThese are all generics and have been a combination of Dave Barker,Steve Osborne, and Buzz Ross Lines. We will be offering these at variable prices depending on pattern, amount of red on the top of their heads and also how much speckling on the sides.

$50.00-$150.00

Buzz RossBuzz Ross line animals are typical looking, but will pro-duce a very speckled lateral side pattern. Coloration can be from a deep red to an orange red coloration.

Normals.......$75.00

The first Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnakes were brought into the United States back in 1988. Dave Barker of VPI collected specimens up stream from Cascada de Basasiachic. After Dave brought them back Steve Osborne of Professional Breeders and Buzz Ross both brought some into the country. Steve’s animals came from Mojarachic in the Maguarichi Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico while Buzz Ross originated from the Copper Canyon area. The last line to make it into the hobby is from the San Juanito area and was first reproduced in 2008.

Hobby History of the Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnake

Dave Barker LineWe are working with F5 offspring from this line. Our re-search shows that this line has also produced aberrant and “Clown Face” offspring.

Normals.....$75.00

Steve Osborne LineThis line seems to show a lighter red to almost or-ange blotching. The white background also does not seem to turn to a dirty white as they age.

Normals......$75.00

Honduran Milksnake

San Luis Potosi Kingsnakes

Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis

Honduran Milksnakes are possibly the most common of all milksnake spe-cies. Their pattren and color mutations along with their larger size (up to 7 foot) make them a great choice to the amature colubrid enthusiat. We are currently only working with a few different mutations.

Tricolor Hypomelanistics.....$50.00 Tangerine Hypomelanistics.....$40.00

Tricolor Hypomelanistic Pin-banded......$60.00

Tangerine Hypomelanistic Pin-banded.....$50.00

Lampropeltis mexicana mexicana

San Luis Potosi Kingsnakes are a small size Mexican Kingsnake that is highly variable in coloration and pattern. There are two color phases, black line and normal. There are also two pattern mutations available, normal banded and granite. The granite mutations changes the typical blotches to a fully speckled snake, with red and black speckles.

Normal.....$60.00 Black Line.....$75.00 Granite.....(inquire)

Yucatan Milksnake Black Milksnake

Durango Mountain Kingsnakes Variable Kingsnake

Lampropeltis triangulum gaigeae

Black Milksnakes are another great choice for the ama-ture colubrid enthusiast. Their large size,ease of care, and the ability to thrive in cooler conditions make them very popular. They start of as your typical tricolor milksnakes but change into large solid black adults resembling Indigos. There are a few lines available to the hobby, we are currently working with one that originated from the San Antonio Zoo.

Normal.....$75.00

Lampropeltis mexicana greeri

Durango Mountain Kingsnakes are a small mountain kingsnake found in Mexico. The neonates are typically lizard feeders but quickly are changed over to mice with no problems. There is no pattern mutations but there are a few different color mutations available. There is a hypomela-nistic and also a super hypomelanistic phase. The hypo-melanistic reduces the black pigment but still leaves some black pigments dorsally. The super hypomelanistic phase reduces the black pigments so drastically that the offspring almost look amelanistic (albino).

Normal......$75.00

Hypomelanistic.....$150.00

Super Hypomelanistic.....$350.00

Lampropeltis triangulum blanchardi

Yucatan Milksnakes are fairly new to the hobby and ours are offspring from a Quintana Roo male and a female from the Moscow Zoo. These are not “pure” L.t.blanchardi due to the unknown lineage of the female. Still the best examples of Blanchard’s Milksnakes available in the Hobby

Normal.....$275.00 Patternless.....$325.00

Lampropeltis Leonis

Variable Kingsnakes, also known as Thayeri Kingsnakes are the most variable kingsnakes available to the hob-by. They have three natural occuring mutations. Milk-snake Phase, Leonis, and Melanistic. All three natural occuring phases can come out of the same clutch with the melanistic phase being the most sought after. The background coloration can be from yellow to orange to earthtone browns and greys. The bands or triands are typically some shade of red outlined by black.

Milksnake Phase.....$75.00

Leonis Phase.....$75.00

Melanistic Phase....$150.00

Nelson’s and Sinaloan Milksnake

Nelson’s Milksnakes

There are two known mutations that originated from this subspecies and both affect the coloration of the black pigment. The first was amelanism, which causes the lack of melanin. This changes all normal black pigment to white on neonates. Some adults will change from this white to a vibrant yellow.

The second mutation changes the black pigment to chocolate coloration. This is called tyrosinase positive or T+. These hatch out a purplish color and change to the chocolate color as the snake ages. These were first produced in the early 2000’s.

Sinaloan Milksnakes

There are three mutations associated with this subspecies, Patternless, Splotched, and Hypoerythristic. The first two affect the pattern of the snake while hypoeryth-rism affects the red pigments. Hypoerythrism changes the redpigments to an orange coloration. It also lightens as the snake ages and can turn almost a pink coloration.

The patternless mutation was found in the 1980’s and was line bred to produce a totally red snake with a black head. These are highly variable and can be solid red with no pattern to showing signs of the black and white triads laterally.

The splotched gene was found in a line of animals in the 1990’s and has been bred to produce fully striped snakes. This is a very highly variable pattern mutation that can produce spotted, elongated spots and also striped snakes.

Lampropeltis triangulum nelsoni, Lampropeltis triangulum sinaloae

Nelson’s and Sinaloan Milksnakes are two different subspecies but due to a reduced availability of Nelson’s Milksnakes in the early 90’s when the first amelanistic Nelson’s Milksnake was produced they have been bred to each other. They are both closely related and at one time were classified as the same subspecies.

Mutation Origins

Amelanistic Nelson’sWe will be offer amelanistics and amelanistics that have other mutations and also can be heterozygous for others.

Amelanistics.....$30.00 Splotched Amelanistic.....$75.00

Amelanistics Heterozygous Hypoerythrisic.....$150.00

Amelanistics Het HypoErythristic & Splotched....$150.00

Tyrosinase Positive Nelson’sWe will hopefully producing a wide array of T+ snakes this year.

T+.....$200.00

T+ Patternless Heterozygous Hypoerythristic.....$600.00

T+ Heterozygous Hypoerythristic......$400.00

T+ Heterozygous Splotched.....$400.00

Heterozygous and Possible Heterozygous We will be offering various heterozygous, possible hete-rozygous and combinations there of when eggs start to hatch in late summer. Due to the multitude of combi-nations and genetics sometimes it is hard to distinguish before hand what will be available..

$30.00-$300.00

Splotched SinaloanUnfortunately at this time our splotched Sinaloan Milk-snake breeders were not big enough to breed. We will be looking forward to this line in 2014.

There are few differences that are noticeable even for the amature colubrid enthusiasts. First, is the red band count. In Nelson’s Milksnake they range from 13-18 red rings and in Sinaloan Milksnakes they range from 10-16. As you can see, counting just the bands will not identify the differ-ence between them as the band count over laps. Next, look at the underside of the throat and the first black band. In Nelson’s it is usually straight across where as in Sinaloan’s it is in a “V” formation. The last noticeable factor is the amount of black pigment dorsally. Nelson’s black rings typical-ly encroach into the red rings more than 2.5 scales, where as Sinaloans are usually no more than 2.5 scales wide.

Taxonomy Differences of Nelson’s & Sinaloan Milksnakes

Patternless SinaloanWe have many adults and should produce a large se-lection of patternless and semi-patternless animals this year. These are from Robert Seib’s line.

Patternless.....$40.00 - $200.00

Hypoerythristic SinaloanUnfortunately at this time our Hypoerythristic Sinaloan Milksnake breeders were not big enough to breed. We will be looking forward to this line in 2014.

Pueblan Milksnake

Grey Banded Kingsnake

Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli

Pueblan Milksnakes were one of the first milksnakes to be bred in large scale and were very popular. Apricot phase have been line bred to produce some tremendous orange triads. There is also hypomelanistics that reduce the black coloration to a silvery grey color. Some of the most well known phase are Oreo and Halloween. These two phase decrease the red colora-tion to show a black and white or a black and orange ringed snake.

Normal.....$30.00 Apricot.....$35.00 Hypomelanistics.....$50.00

Hypo-Oreo.....$75.00 Hypo-Halloween.....$75.00

Lampropeltis alterna

Grey Banded Kingsnakes are a very popular snake and have a solid grey background with red or orange bands outlined in black. There are two naturally occurring pattern phases, Blair’s and Alterna. There are also a couple of colormutations and one known pattern mutation. We are currently work-ing with the Coffey Line aberrant, which is the pattern mutation that is highly variable. We are also producing non locale animals.

Normal Blairs & Alterna Phase.....$75.00 Coffey Line Aberrant.....$250.00

Locality Sinaloan Milksnake Aurora House Snakes

Arizona Mountain Kingsnakes Tricolor Hognose

Lamprophis aurora

Aurora House snakes are found in Africa and are one of only two species that we work with that are not in the genus, Lampropeltis. These snakes are medium sized docile snakes that are a vibrant green with a yellow/orange stripe running dorsally. The neonates typically are lizard feeders but quickly become ravenous feeders on pinkie mice in a short time.

Normal.....$250.00

Lampropeltis pyromelana

Arizona Mountain Kingsnkes are another wonderful tricolor mountain kingsnake found in southwest United States. These snakes are highly variable in the amount of black , red and white each individual shows. We were able to acquire a partially spotted female back in 2009 . We will be line breeding for the next few generations to see if this pattern aberrancy is genetic. There will be very few available for the next few years as we will be holding back the majority of the offspring.

Project Offspring.....(Inquire)

Lampropeltis triangulum sinaloae

These sinaloan milksnakes originated from parents that were caught just outside of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico in the late 1970’s. This line has fortunately stayed pure and was not bred into Nelson’s Milksnake in the 1990 amelanis-tic craze.

Mazatlan Locality.....$100.00

Lystrophis Pulcher

Tricolor hognoses make wonderful captives. This smaller snake species from South America is not as popular as the Western Hognose but shows some of the better characteristics. These babies hatch out very small but accept new born pinkies fairly readily. Once eating mice they quickly become eating machines. They do need to be kept warmer in the winter months than your typical Milksnake or Kingsnake. (60-65F) We will be offering these again this year after selling our collection a few years ago.

Normal.....$150.00

Tremendous Tricolors

PO Box 2654 Valrico Florida, 33595

Tel:(813) 610-0729 Email: jtintle@tremendoustriclors.com

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