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so heres my little zahara. i bought her in oct. shes the one that ive posted about before. she seems to be fairly healthy now, but i have a question----she doesnt seem to be strong. shes a great eater! but physically she doesnt squeeze very hard at all. i take her out regularly so she gets a good stretch out. i recently put her in a bigger enclosure with plenty of room to move around and a bit of a climbing area...so what can i do to make her stronger? or is she just being really gentle with me? like i said, she seems healthy otherwise...
so anyways...heres a bunch of pics of her...
im not going to ask if she is anything other than a normal, but if yall see something please let me know...k, thanks

*heres just one of me holding her*

*and a closer view of her head..wish i could get a good one of her eyes. they are lighter, toward a goldish green brown. lol i can see her pupils anyways*

*and from the top*

*a side shot & my new still yet sore tattoo lol*

*a belly shot*

*a close up of one of her several weird flames*

*heres another cool flame*

thanks for looking... i might share my boys on another day...
they might not be morphs or het for anything but they are beautiful kids anyways and i just wanted to share em

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~Snake Charmer~
0.1 russian tortoise (natasha)
3.1 dogs (church, bandit, willy and tonka)
0.2 cats (squeaky, cami)
2.1 'normal' ball pythons (zenith, butters, zahara)and i want more snakes. guess you can say im developing a "reptile addiction"- lol

Well she is still little, when shes bigger she might be alot stronger, from the look of the picture I'd say she is 300-400 gram range so she could add 1200-2000 grams to that in the next 5 or more years if your lucky. As for climbing, lol my girlfriend loves for her animals to be in tanks with alot of room and a stick to climb on but balls don't need that to live and she wonders why her male will go off feed for sometimes 6 months.
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Spider 1.0
Normals 1.2
Het Pied 1.0
Leopard Geckos 1.1
American Bulldog 1.0

She is a very pretty girl with some pretty sides. I would have to agree with the Cheese Guy (lol), and say that strength will probably come with age. My largest 3000 gram girl is probably my strongest ball (go figure), and you really have to pry her off you sometimes. And more so, I think it varies from snake to snake -- I have balls with a killer grip and balls that don't mind just gliding over my hands. I find my boas are much more clingy/grippy than my ball pythons, but I think that's probably because they just naturally climb a lot more.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)