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These guys are really starting to grow! The male is really getting big bit he's in shed.


This pic is on the same stick taken 2 months ago

Nate

Beautiful!!!!!!!!

Looking good! You know his tail is starting to look more unicolor. I once purchased a captive hatched "black tail" cribo from somebody and it ended up being a unicolor. It takes about a year before the tail was the same color. Of course it could just be the lighting in your picture.

It's funny, I have heard of that happening before and while her tail is not the black I've seen on others it's still pretty dark. The lighting also makes it look alot lighter then it really is. I know this was a sore subject a few years ago as weather bt's and unicolors were actually just locale variations of the same species, has anybody came to a conclusion?

She is also around 1.5 years old and is only around 4 feet but still seems to be growing, Has anyone else had any late growth spurts?

I also here there are some bt's that will max out at 5 feet or so and others that can hit the 5 foot mark in the first year, any ideas regarding this?

I just went and checked my notes on my '05 former bt, now known as a unicolor. I was convinced by the time it was a year old that it was a uni and not a bt. Since I take lots of photos of my snakes, it was easy to see after looking at pictures taken over the first year. When I saw your pictures I had the same feeling. It didn't really hit me by looking at it day to day, but was obvious after seeing a very dark tail turn to brown by the end of the first year. It's now about 2 1/2 years old and very uniform in color. I was actually very happy to find out mine was a unicolor and was kicking myself for not picking up another sibling at the same time. I have an '04 male unicolor too and it's a monster for it's age.

Either way enjoy!

Yeah I was starting to think the same thing. I don't think I'll have a problem if she turns out to be a uni, it just means I'll have to buy to more snakes, oh well.

On another note I was wondering if you breed 2 bt's together can you end up with any uni's or vise-versa?

This is just a question as I would not plan on doing it. If you breed a uni to a bt do you end up with all "brown tails", a mix of uni's and bt's or a little bit of all?

One more? If you breed 2 red throat couperi together do you end up with all red throat of can you get solid blacks too? And vise-versa. Or If you breed a black to a red throat do you muddy the red or do you get two seperate forms?

Also after talking to Terry V last night he mentioned something about people reviewing the taxonomy of the eastern Indigo and perhaps moving them into three different sub's what are other peoples opinions on that touchy subject?
Nate