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Chuck called mine a Ruby Dragon. I found yours while searching the name. Here are 3 more pics of mine. I can't seem to get a 100% pure representation of the color for some reason, even after messing with the white balance and ISO. It's half a shade bluer in the pics than it really is.

Dang, I hate to hear about the Hot Wheels! I traded most of mine for marbles. When I was a kid, I was on a trip to my grandparent's house. While we were there, my mother found her marbles from childhood and gave them to me. She gave them to me not expecting much, but she told me they were old and special, etc... etc... and so I saved them. We then moved from the city to the country and the kids in my neighborhood played marbles, which I had never done before. I was good. It wasn't long before I had amassed a pretty good collection. I kept mom's separate though and she saw my interest and got me an early Everett Grist book about old marbles. It mostly had handmades in it and didn't give much value to machine mades, but I started collecting. I found a fractured frog sulphide at an antique store in town for $2.00 (the book showed it could be worth hundreds!!) and the hunt was on! I've been hooked ever since and the fractured frog sulphide is still in my collection. I took a haitus for several years but always kept the interest. I did a lot of arrowhead hunting and metal detecting but I came back to marbles a few years ago and have been hard at it ever since.

Yeah. I've learned the key is to have plenty of them and not types they like much. I have success with eelgrass, amazon swords, and even anacharis. Hornwort does okay and java ferns do really well. I have a natural bottom too but to keep them from making huge holes, I put good sized river rock all mixed in so that they can't dig too much.

I've got a cichlid tank too. These pics are old, there are a lot more fish in there now. There are a lot of fish in the tank during these pics too but they used to hide all the time, which is why I got a lot more fish... to keep it stirred up. Now I have a bunch of baby yellow labs in the tank from a hatching... anybody need some yellow lab cichlids?

I would have put the first two with CAC, the next might be Cairo, then Alley for the next, and Cairo maybe for the last.

My first thought was Sistersville Alley.

Here's one that was posted by Jeeperman that I used to compare with. i included a pic of mine to have a side by side comparison:

Huh. I'll give it more thought. Do you have cullet like it? Don't worry about "rubbing my fur the wrong way", I am more interested in the correct ID of a marble than the need to be right.

I agree with Alley too. Especially with the second pic. Nice!

These just got IDed as likely Heaton by Ron:

Ric, in your group shot, the big one in the center...does it look like this? This one's about 11/16" in with my pelt NLRs. Chuck G. called it a Ruby Dragon. Sorry for the crappy pics... they are old and from a cell phone.

Wow, that second one is really nice! Kind of puts me in mind of a blue lagoon pelt but maybe even nicer.

Wowzers! Ya think these will float? It just occurred to me how uniform in size and spacing those bubbles are! How in the world it has a smooth surface is beyond me.

The center one looks more CAC than the others do (to me anyway).

I need to go through my "not alleys" pile of swirls and pull out some more heatons. I like this one a lot though:

Not the best photos but

I don't know if I have or not, for some reason this particular color combo pelt is blah to me and I don't pay them much attention. I just recently ran across this one and found out the name for it so I shared it. Nixe poxbloods! MCS ones too. Seems like pelt used a better oxblood in the mcs than in the rainbos.

Well there's one! Better example than mine too! Bottom one is an NRL, right?

Here's a group shot of some nice alleys I took a good while back.

Here's a group shot of some nice ones

Called a Smoky Blue

Now here's something interesting. I've never seen an oxblood rainbo. I've seen oxblood with other colors (usually teal green or blue), but never just oxblood on white on a rainbo. Anyone else have one?

I don't know if John posted a sistersville that looks like that but the one I posted d.oes somewhat.. is that the one you're talking about? A few of us thought it was Alley and Ron agreed it was a "possible Sistersville Alley". No-one offered an ID other than Alley and Alley was waht I originally thought before asking others for their opinions, so I went with it.

I'll try to fix that Steph. I moved some photos around into different folders and it messed up the links. Many pics are missing of mine in that thread and others. Regarding your alley/ravenswood John, I saw Ron ID it as Alley and I respect his analysis of the marble much more than my own, and alleys can look a lot like ravenswoods and visa-versa. I don't think anyone would be able to 100% prove it's an alley or ravenswood and not the other.

I wondered about ravenswood for that one too when I saw it on another board. Here are a few that I've made nicer pictures of.