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From Herb:

Blaze

Corazon

From Gerold:

Zappa

Yazmin

Bitzi

Everybody eats every five or six days, all very healthy vigorous little babies.

I wish I could do really nice photos like the guy who just did the head shots. These photos are mainly just for a record, in case I should mix them up and need to ID them to sort things out.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

Geez, how many pyros you got now haha! awesome snakes man! Blaze has got to be my favorite of this bunch, love the black down its back!

Thanks! I have 11 pyros now; four 2.2 '08s, two 0.2 '09s, and five 2.3 '10s. This is pretty much all I intend to buy at least for now. Next step is to get some babies of my own.

When I went to Herb's to get Blaze and Corazon, he made a cryptic remark that "If anything happens to this snake I will replace it free..." I think what he meant is Blaze was a less than enthusiastic feeder but since I have had him he is eating just fine with lizard tea and a bit of blood from the lanced pink. Putting a paper bag over the feeding jar helps, too.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

Nice Pyros Bob.....
Blaze is KILLER....It's going to be an impressive adult......

You are surely creating a diversified collection of these......
How many electronic gadgets are you buying to counter these?.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Thanks!
Blaze has the highest band count with heavy black crossovers, a feature I hope to propagate. The nest highest band count is Zappa. My small collection of pyros is from three different breeders, and from assorted pairings.

My mystery girl:

Zunchara. I got her from the Serpentarium in '08, but Bill does not remember what breeder he dealt with, as he had many breeders. I would for sure buy another pyro if it looked like her!

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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

>>My mystery girl:
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>>Zunchara. I got her from the Serpentarium in '08, but Bill does not remember what breeder he dealt with, as he had many breeders. I would for sure buy another pyro if it looked like her!

Bob...
You got that strange looking "Pyro" from Bill Haast in Florida?
Or from the Serpentarium in Lodi, California?
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

the Serpentarium in Lodi, California. I drove there and picked her out amongst a few pyros, most from Herb. I would have possibly passed her over but the young man working there said "THAT'S a pretty one!", and so I chose her.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

How many electronic gadgets are you buying to counter these?.....LOL
Am considering another laptop, a new camera, more hard drives...but then some of these items will be for me as well! LOL! One thing nice about electronics, everybody can share them.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

>>How many electronic gadgets are you buying to counter these?.....LOL
>>Am considering another laptop, a new camera, more hard drives...but then some of these items will be for me as well! LOL! One thing nice about electronics, everybody can share them.

Yes....I know....my wife uses my Ipad more than I do.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Blaze and Zuchara are very interesting!

Thanks! She weighs in at around 190 grams and he weighs about 8.5 grams, so it will be a few years before he will be big enough to mate with her, a thing I would like to do eventually.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

All are awesome because they are pyros. Blaze is super neat with that red on the sides against that black and white back. Too cool.
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Mark

Thanks! Another neat feature is some of them have orange bellies.

Herb is breeding a line for orange bellies, and Blaze and Corazon have bellies almost like his holdback pictured here.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

These photos are mainly just for a record, in case I should mix them up and need to ID them to sort things out.

that's always a great idea. It's especially useful if you're breeding morphs: having two-three babies get out and not being able to sort the triple hets from the normals could have serious consequences. The full-body shots of tricolors always made me feel like I was recording each animal's “barcode”.

I also kept a written note on each animal's cage card, noting some distinguishing pattern characteristics: “4th=Y on left” for ex would indicate a tricolor whose 4th triad split into a y on the left side side. It was almost always possible to note just one or two things like that, that would distinguish a baby from several hundred others.

For your pyro "zappa", for example, I'd note that odd 40th triad. It might be easy to remember that the day they hatch, but what about six months later? Or a week later, after six more clutches have hatched-- including one baby with a similar triad?

For getula, notes about head markings may be the "key". And don't forget ventrals provide getula, obsoleta, guttata, etc with very utilitarian "barcodes".

Ventrals have a much better variety of individual markings than dorsal, for sure.

Found this which would maybe be useful for snakes who have all one color on belly:
www.jstor.org/pss/1562986
Not that I would want to take a sharp object to any of my babies! LOL!
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

>>Ventrals have a much better variety of individual markings than dorsal, for sure.
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>>Found this which would maybe be useful for snakes who have all one color on belly:
>>www.jstor.org/pss/1562986

nice.