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New Adult female flame and a ton of pics

asnakelovinbabe Oct 04, 2009 01:31 AM

The "male" flame I went to pick up today turned out to be female. YESSS. It's a NICE snake. Not to mention the free vision cage. Best $50 I ever spent! Here is a photo of her, as well as a bunch of other snakes. She does indeed appear to be erythristic and flame. (well, thats kind of redundant because a flame IS an erythristic)

Next up are the promised but terrible photos of the natrix! They are shy, and very grumpy. I didn't want to bother her for too long! first is natrix natrix, then natrix tesselata!

This is the stare of DOOM

Here is my iowa albino axanthic. This snake, went from being, oh that's pretty cool, to WOW that snake is freaking AWESOME when I realized that even though she is albino her entire body has a BLUE sheen. I kid you not! A blue albino snake! It's just about impossible to capture with a camera yet, she is too small, so I waited for the sun to be almost set and photographed it in low lighting. For the most part, I captured it, the photos are edited a bit to bring it out but I swear up and down, that is what it looks like, there is a BLUE stripe and checkers on this snake and it only gets darker with every shed!

here she is with the iowa albino male.

Now here is my female atratus, she HATES me.

albino red sided!

Red Striped ribbon holdbacks are growing beyond belief!

And so are my cherry hypo water snakes! Here is the vanishing pattern female and the nicest male, they are HUGE.

And this beauty was an extra that Scott sent me, I just love her. She is a low end flame. But gorgeous!

I did my own version of the "turn a tub into a cage" deal

One of my high black oregon red spots

Just your neighborhood friendly similis! She is actually a very nice blue, but as we all know flashes remove all hints of that.

and meet Jack, my Electric Blue Jack-Dempsey. These are one of the most coveted of all fish.

Replies (4)

boxienuts Oct 04, 2009 10:13 AM

Nice pics Shannon. I love the electric blue jack demseys, I had one for 7 years that I raised up from a 1" to a beautiful adult male, but sadly he died last month, not sure if it was old age or what, 7 years is a long time for a fish.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

asnakelovinbabe Oct 04, 2009 11:07 AM

7 years is very good for an EBJD. They have numerous troubles with growing to adulthood, and they are incredibly deilcate and are actually nothing like a normal jack dempsey. I have done a lot of reading up on them and often you fail with them before you finally get one that makes it. My last one was very very scared all the time, only lasted a few days. This one was my free replacement, (actually though the previous one was gifted for $5 from our supplier to me and they were still nice enough to replace) he is bigger, not shy, and he's got a great appetite. Before 3 inches in length they are known to spontaneously stop eating and drop dead. Mine is pretty outgoing so I think he's going to grow up big and strong. They are sterile when bred to one another so to get more EBJD's you have to breed one with a het for the gene. His tank mates are an albino polypterus senegalus, a featherfin catfish, a hujeta and a dragon goby!

boxienuts Oct 05, 2009 06:04 PM

Yep you're right about having to breed to hets. Originally I was going to breed them, I had two full grown males and they got along fine but I sold one of them, and kept the one in with my diamondback terrapins, they were full grown when the terrapins were hatchlings, so the turtles grew up with them always in the tank, so they never saw them as food, just tank buddies. Here is a pic I took 2 years ago of the big male, he was every bit of 6-7 inches.

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Steve_Craig Oct 04, 2009 04:51 PM

Beautiful animals. Love the atratus & Oregon Red Spot. Steve

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