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This is "Sweet Pea". She is my smallest female patternless green rock, but is the prettiest in terms of very light, lime green uninterupted by any freckling or partial patterns. She has not been bred yet, though two other females have. I am holding Sweet Pea back until she hits 11 or 12 feet. She is only about 10 feet now and 2 1/2 years old. She was a problem feeder for the first year and was only 5 feet at one year and 8 feet at two, but then her appetite exploded. I should be able to breed her in a few months or less.

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I'm glad your breeding season went very well. It's nice to see pictures of some of your snakes Isn't 1.5 yrs for a female awfully young?? How many female burms breed successfully at that age?
Burms are nice, but lets see those retics! How are those supers coming along?? Hope the hatching goes as well as the breeding. Have a good one!

~brian ott

Thank you much. This is just the tip of the iceburg. I didn't want to get too carried away here, but I have been promising pictures of these girls for a long time and since I was taking the time to post one picture in the retic forum, I thought I might as well also post some here.

Burmese are very prolific. I don't push the females to breed. They kind of choose when they want to breed and I concede. These particular 1.5 yo females were going to be held back until next Oct-Dec but then they went off of food. To me this is an indication that their bodies are going into breeding mode and that they want to breed. So when they go off of food I will give them a male. Sure enough, each and every time they have gone off of food they accept the breeding attempts of the male and ovulate. I don't do this with smaller retics,... but then,. I have yet to have a smaller, younger female tic (9'-11') go off of food like that, lol.

>>I'm glad your breeding season went very well. It's nice to see pictures of some of your snakes Isn't 1.5 yrs for a female awfully young?? How many female burms breed successfully at that age?
>>Burms are nice, but lets see those retics! How are those supers coming along?? Hope the hatching goes as well as the breeding. Have a good one!
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>>~brian ott
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Believe in yourself and your abilities and you can accomplish anything.

I've got a large python that looks like your female, but she was sold to me as a Burmese do you know how i can tell the two apart?

Usually the most discernible differences are to be found in the head. The patternless green rocks retain a lot of their natural pattern in their head. Plus the rocks have a somewhat slimmer build than the patternless burms. And the body scales are a little different. The rock's scales tend to be oval or round and the burmese scales are more "angled" or diamond shaped on the edges. The rock python's scales are also a bit bumpier or "rougher" to the touch. Burms tend to be smoother when you rub them. And lastly, attitude; When you rub a burm the tend to pull or flinch away and the rocks will often flinch back, toward your hand.

>>I've got a large python that looks like your female, but she was sold to me as a Burmese do you know how i can tell the two apart?
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Believe in yourself and your abilities and you can accomplish anything.