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A few questions

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Posted by: sean1976 at Sat Aug 11 23:05:26 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by sean1976 ]  
   

Heya guys I just thought I'd ask a few questions and show recent pic's. Luckily my dad was willing to help me get some recent pics by holding the BRB's while I took pictures.



By the way, anyone have some good tricks/techniques to get snakes to pose/coil on a surface for pictures? Because every time I try they just want to crawl arround. I know someone mentioned putting a bowl over them and leaving them for a few minutes but how do you get them to let you put them under/in a bowl? I have dificulty convincing mine to stay put and let go of me long enough to get the lid on the 3x2 feeding containers I use.



Is there a minimum weight/size for a male BRB to successfully breed? I can't remember ever hearing a min size for the males but wasn't sure. My male is currently 1 pound 13 ounces. My female is currently 3 pounds 6 ounces.



Secondly I was curious how people would describe the male as he is much closer to my preffered appearance on BRB's. Particularly the contrast between saddle and background color in addition to overall bright colors.



Anyways here is a few pics of the male "Navel"



Head shot



Picture in sunlight (closest to true color)



Picture in shadow





And here's a few of my female "Brunhilde"



Head shot



Picture in the sunlight



Picture in the shade (closest to true coloration)





Also I was curious if eclipse phase is a selectively bred for trait or a reccessive inherited trait? I assume it is selectively bred for but thats just a guess.



Mostly I ask out of curiosity of how much crescent size/presence variance there is within normal population. Especially since my male has very prominent crescents but my female for the most part has 1/2 to 1 scale thick crescents where she has any at all.



Sorry for the picture size, I didn't realize how large they would end up until I was posting this. Does anyone have a recomendation on pixel size to use for posted images?



Thanks again,



Sean.


   

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