Here is the pair I purchased at the 07 Sacramento Reptile Expo, The first 4 pictures are of my fatso male, I really wish the pictures did the snakes justice but they never seem to right? He has a lot of yellow on his back. The last 3 pictures are of the female, Again no justice here. She has a lot of white on her sides and whats up with that pattern? The pattern is why I chose her over the other seemingly normal snakes. Any thoughts? Is the high yellow in him and white in her nothing to call home about? What about her pattern? Again nothing abnormal or did I get lucky? Thanks for looking, enjoy.
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Pictures as promised
JasonW
Jan 10, 2008 10:46 AM
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EmberBall
Jan 10, 2008 10:47 AM
The second pic is nice, lots of flames, cool snake.
JasonW
Jan 10, 2008 11:09 AM
I am sorry but flames? Please explain? I am amazed at how fast the male is growing. They were both about the same size when I got them in September and granted the female had a couple feeding issues but he is just packing on the pounds, it=s this normal for males to outgrow females at this rate? With my Corn and King Snakes its the other way around, especially because I feed my females twice as much as my males.
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littleleeper23
Jan 11, 2008 09:09 AM
HI Jason,.... Perfect normals by the looks. The Blushing or burnouts are the faded areas between the alien heads on the sides. If the irises were lighter I would have you look to see if they were yellow bellies....I have a male YB that is nearly normal until you see his belly. The YBs have a white belly freckled with yellowish spots and then where the side pattern meets the belly you have a very freckled look to almost marbled for lack of better terms.....If nothing else the white highlights to the alien heads often carry on to the babies and really enhances the look of a pastel if you had a female pastel to breed to him.....As far as growth rates it is animal and feed rate dependent. One of my friends has a male Pastel that was purchased in Oct at 110gm and is over 600grams now. But I had a female do the same thing too. One of my girls required forced feeding for a couple of months then BANG she figured out feeding is a good thing. At 1 yr old she is 1175gm. I am pretty pleased with that and Have high hopes for her in another year or 2 as she is poss DH Snow..............Lee
