Very good and detailed photos! Now I am convinced it is meahllmorum. A very typical looking specimen.



Yes, some of mine do have some peach and light orange coloring in the lower lateral area. The faded checks on the ventral are also very typical of meahllmorum. Some specimens have bolder and darker checks like my big female in the picture, but most are faded like yours. It also looks like a very dark animal in some of the photos as someone else pointed out, but this happens in meahllmorum also. A few of my cb offspring from that female are much darker than her and their father. The head shape and eye size are also very typical. The faint dorsal striping is common in this subspecies as well as guttatus.



The second pic is a photo of my old male. He has faint dorsal stripes also. I last measured him in 2003 and he was at 56 inches then. I don't know if he has grown any since then. I think he is a very old animal, but still an active breeder. He weighs in at around 980 grams. I have a younger, but longer male that I got last year, but no photos of him yet. I estimate him at 5 ft or a little more. The first pic is an '05 baby from the female in the previous post and this male.



-Toby

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