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Thought it was about time to share a picture or two. This is a female after her second meal.

and number two of the same girl

I'm still not sure where the laddertails came from in this litter?! These babies are blowing my mind. Their pinks, blues, and purples are just amazing! Then all of that color gives way to the baby gray and I remember that their patterns are just awesome!

Interestingly, the ventral scales are fairly heavily patterned on most of them. What's noteworthy is that the mother to the litter had speckle-free ventrals until about 4 years of age and the father to the litter has lots of very tiny specks.

Thanks for looking!!

jb
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Jonathan Brady
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I like that color, here is one for you.

wow! now that's one i would love to have in my colection,very nice.
greg c

Dang Amer!

Can you say: " CONTRAST! "

JJ

That's a beautiful Suri! Derek did a great job with that one!
jb
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Jonathan Brady
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so much color at such a young age, she's a beauty jonathan.
greg c

And you're right. It's amazing the color some of these can pull up when they should only be just GRAY!

jb
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Jonathan Brady
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Ya, Baby!!

Great youngsters from the nicest Guyana in the country!

Thanks JJ!!

Sadly, I think that one or two of these might take that title from Rose... We'll see, with time.

jb
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Jonathan Brady
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Jonathan,
those are really growing up nicely. Can't wait for more pics. Keep us updated.
Andy

sharing more of these beauties with you all!

jb
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Jonathan Brady
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Already looking nice Johnathan!!
Joel

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Jonathan Brady
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That snake is absolutely beautiful. That's about as close to perfect as they come in my eyes!

Ronnie Nocera

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Jonathan Brady
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She is very beautiful. How many of the babies have the ladder tails?

I say that's an interesting question because I didn't even think about it! So I just went and looked.

I'm not sure how you would "define" a laddertail, so I came up with a rather objective rating. I looked at the number of white square or hourglass shaped "ladder-steps" and anything with 3 or more is definitely a laddertail. If it had 2, I said "kind-of" a laddertail. And 1 and it gets the rating of "the makings of" a laddertail. lol How's that?? haha

So, 3-5 have laddertails. I know that doesn't follow my objective ratings, so let me explain. 3 have definite laddertails. 2 have 2 or 3 white steps with the 3rd being subject to interpretation, but I feel like they could be laddersteps. So, they're not extreme laddertails, but based on the criteria above, they fall into the catergory.

There is 1 that falls into the "kind of" category having 2 markings indicative of laddertail.

4 fall into the "makings of" category with 2 of those potentially being in the "kind of" category.

Only 1 animal has no indication of a laddertail.

The animal pictured above was one of those that falls into the laddertail category with 4 "steps".

Thanks for making me think Lee!!!

jb
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Jonathan Brady
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Gotta have color!

Take care,

Kevin

SHE IS ALSO LOADED WITH COLOR. THAT WAS AN AWESOME LITTER