I was not the first to ever keep these great looking snakes, and have never claimed to be. But I did come up with the Blond name dispite what Bwanna may state.
In 1982, whilst visiting Neil Charles in Brisbane, I was shown this startling form of mac for the first time. Neil had 2 pairs of adults approx 4.5 ft long. It was at this point I came up with the Blond term. I was informed by Neil that these had come from Tully(which turned out to be incorrect) For the next few years I spent large amounts of time in North Qld looking in the wrong area for this form.
In approx 1986 I met Bwanna who had in his collection a male mac which was the closest I had seen to the Neil Charles form. Bwanna did inform me that it was infact collected from Port Douglas area. I informed him that this appeared very similar to the Blond form I was chasing.
In 1987, with the help of Rob Bredl, I finally obtained 2 specimens of what I deemed full-on Blonds from a keeper in Cooktown(Barry Grey). Over the next few years Barry supplied me more specimens which became the basis for my lines which are now in collections all over Australia.
From 1987 till 1994 I did many field trips in these areas and found that the form I called Blonds were found from just north of Cairns to Cooktown.The closer to Cooktown, the better they appeared on average. Once past Cooktown they appeared to revert to the standard form. I also found a race of Blond lookalikes living on the western slopes of the Athertons as far south as Greenvale to north of Mt Malloy and as far west as Georgetown. Even though this form did have reduced patterning resembling the coastal blond form, they all lacked the yellow flanks and were mere pygmies compared to true Blonds.
I try to keep my lines as locality specific as I can. By doing this you know you have a pure form. If Indicus was to market his intergrade line as Platinum macs, and if you named the western form something different, then you now have 3 totally different quality forms to keep. But as Boa stated, its a bit muddy when all 3 forms are labeled as Blonds and are crossbred, even though they are all different.
If you guys wish to call any pale mac a blond, be my guest. Next you will be calling all your Womas Topaz's lines like Simon Stones form.
In 1982, whilst visiting Neil Charles in Brisbane, I was shown this startling form of mac for the first time. Neil had 2 pairs of adults approx 4.5 ft long. It was at this point I came up with the Blond term. I was informed by Neil that these had come from Tully(which turned out to be incorrect) For the next few years I spent large amounts of time in North Qld looking in the wrong area for this form.
In approx 1986 I met Bwanna who had in his collection a male mac which was the closest I had seen to the Neil Charles form. Bwanna did inform me that it was infact collected from Port Douglas area. I informed him that this appeared very similar to the Blond form I was chasing.
In 1987, with the help of Rob Bredl, I finally obtained 2 specimens of what I deemed full-on Blonds from a keeper in Cooktown(Barry Grey). Over the next few years Barry supplied me more specimens which became the basis for my lines which are now in collections all over Australia.
From 1987 till 1994 I did many field trips in these areas and found that the form I called Blonds were found from just north of Cairns to Cooktown.The closer to Cooktown, the better they appeared on average. Once past Cooktown they appeared to revert to the standard form. I also found a race of Blond lookalikes living on the western slopes of the Athertons as far south as Greenvale to north of Mt Malloy and as far west as Georgetown. Even though this form did have reduced patterning resembling the coastal blond form, they all lacked the yellow flanks and were mere pygmies compared to true Blonds.
I try to keep my lines as locality specific as I can. By doing this you know you have a pure form. If Indicus was to market his intergrade line as Platinum macs, and if you named the western form something different, then you now have 3 totally different quality forms to keep. But as Boa stated, its a bit muddy when all 3 forms are labeled as Blonds and are crossbred, even though they are all different.
If you guys wish to call any pale mac a blond, be my guest. Next you will be calling all your Womas Topaz's lines like Simon Stones form.
)who just keeps getting better and better and more recently I became the owner of Blonde Mac, Josie.
