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    Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    I'm a botanist and novice in the
    royal husbandry hobby, I'm about
    to get two males from Texas maybe
    just one of them though he's giving
    me a really good combo deal so I'm
    still thinking about it.. I've had this
    amazing and sweet Spotnose female
    for about a month now, and the male
    Pastel Jigsaw and male Mojave Spinner
    may come in a month or so; I want
    them both though might have to stick
    with one.. the Mojo Spinner has a little
    paradoxing on one side too. Here's my
    girl named Love.. she's a little over a year





    Her behavior and heart patterns named her..

    RustlewoodReptiles

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    Re: Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    Welcome to the site. You will find a lot of information here.

    Are you getting either of the two males from the same person you got your female from? The reason I ask, is while she is a pretty snake, there is nothing that indicates she is a spotnose. Here is a link to a site with to see examples of a Spotnose. http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/spotnose/

    Your girl looks to be a classic/normal ball python. If someone sold her to you as a spotnose, I believe you were decieved. Spotnose ball pythons have distinct head patterns as well as the typical busy overall pattern along the body. You girl doesn't show any of the traits that make a spotnose the morph it is. As long as she is a female she will still be able to produce nice babies for you in the future. But you definitely want to do your homework about a specific morph you have an interest in before you purchase.

    Best of luck
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    Re: Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    No sir, also I'm aware of what
    makes a spotnose a spotnose,
    though this was a second-hand
    girl from a petstore basically..
    being sold as a high-white spot
    nose for 70, I didn't even intend
    on getting a Spotnose nor my
    very first ball at that point but
    I fell in love with her she's an
    amazing snake, and beautiful
    along with a great temperament.

    Even if she wasn't a spotnose
    I'd be glad to have her she's
    just an amazing snake! But I am
    quite sure she's a spotnose from
    her specific spots right under her
    nose, I do too question the lack
    of head pattern (the lady there
    tried to sell me the snake as a
    scaleless head because she had
    a bit of last shed's skin on top
    making the coloring a little bit
    different) but the two spots
    right under the nose are the
    signs that convince me of her
    lineage but if a normal, which
    I will test when bred to either
    my Pastel Jigsaw or Mojo Spinner,
    which I am now glad to announce
    I am officially as of today confirmed
    to order both of those male snakes!

    I'll grab more pictures of my baby
    girl today to prove what I mean but
    you can see one of her nose spots
    vaguely from the first picture. I've
    seen breeders' example Spotnoses
    from their collections and they don't
    even have the signature spot-nose
    trait, just often a merging of yellow
    around the nose, while my specimen
    has completely separate yellow dots
    that do not connect to any other
    patterns or coloring. Hence Spotnose.

    If for some chance I have a normal
    that's expressing the spotnose pattern
    I would laugh and crap myself a bit
    I'm not sure if that's more abnormal
    than a spotnose morph having a close
    doppelganger normal snake ahahahah.

    But she is also brighter and busier
    compared to my neighbors old normal..
    and she also has patterns that merge,
    would love to see more pertaining to
    this I would definitely want to let the
    owners of the store know to get a hold
    of the guy they got the snakes from.

    RustlewoodReptiles

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    How about some better pics?
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    Hello and welcome. Nice to see more PNW people on here. Even if she's a normal there's nothing wrong with a nice Normal girl That kind of upsets me that the lady would suggest it was a scaleless head, I've heard that might become an issue in the future. Congrats on the other new comers too, I love the Pastel Jigsaw. I'm not that much of a Mojave fan at the moment but that is only because I don't own anything Mojave yet. Overall that's a really good 3 to start with. Were you were able to make the reptile expo that just came to Portland?

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    Re: Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    Thank you for the replies!! I have some
    pictures of her face now, it's clear now
    to anyone that there's clean spots under
    her left and right nostrils, and I forgot
    to mention it before but compared to the
    neighbor's normal where there's dark brown
    normally on her it's a near jet black inbetween
    the patterns with the dark-brown blushing
    through on the spot maybe twice throughout
    her. I really want confirmation that my
    snake with spots on it's nose is indeed
    not the Spotnose morph, regardless of
    whats what she's still going to have two
    really nice males to mate with in the future.







    She has a discoloration thats reduced
    a bit with her first shed, on head, which
    was a solid shed so I was glad as I was
    told she had shedding problems in the
    past before; but she's definitely not
    a scaleless head for sure.. no way I'd
    get that lucky not ever. Would be nice!





    As a bonus for this thread, here are
    pictures from the breeder Chris that
    is sending over these boys when they
    are ready to go! I'll have them in about
    a month or so..first is the Mojave Spinner
    and second the Pastel Jigsaw, and now
    a picture of his Mojave Spinner Blast
    that he recently chanced out..be sure
    to check him out
    guy's his snakes are
    absolutely beautiful! This is a holdback
    you can already assume lmao just amazing



    Thank you for stopping by everyone please
    let me know if my snake is actually not a
    Spotnose I'd really like to know from a lot
    of different hobbyist to professional opinions.

    RustlewoodReptiles

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    Re: Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    @alan12013: Sorry for forgetting
    to reply, was focused on trying to
    figure out if my snake is actually
    a Spotnose or not. With the spots
    on it's nose, but lack of head patterns
    it's hard for me to honestly tell but
    there's damn clean spots on the
    nose!! There's no mistake in that.

    I didn't and wasn't aware, I was
    planning on going to the Puyallup
    Fair's reptile show in October this
    year though I may not be able to
    buy a snake this time due to the
    two 3-gene animals coming to me
    in a month, but it would be great
    to look around and such.. haven't
    seen or heard of anyone going on
    places like these so IDK if there's
    going to be really nice morphs or
    anything like that for sale or browse.

    RustlewoodReptiles


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    @alan12013: Sorry for forgetting
    to reply, was focused on trying to
    figure out if my snake is actually
    a Spotnose or not. With the spots
    on it's nose, but lack of head patterns
    it's hard for me to honestly tell but
    there's damn clean spots on the
    nose!! There's no mistake in that.

    I didn't and wasn't aware, I was
    planning on going to the Puyallup
    Fair's reptile show in October this
    year though I may not be able to
    buy a snake this time due to the
    two 3-gene animals coming to me
    in a month, but it would be great
    to look around and such.. haven't
    seen or heard of anyone going on
    places like these so IDK if there's
    going to be really nice morphs or
    anything like that for sale or browse.

    RustlewoodReptiles

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    I'm a little skeptical of calling her a Spot Nose. I have a normal that could almost pass because of a snowflake head pattern but he's still just my normal het Ghost.

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    Re: Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    Definitely a Normal. A lot of Normals have those dots.


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    Re: Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

    That's somewhat disappointing..
    she's still a great snake but jeez
    I guess I can say I didn't get hit
    by the petstore in another sort
    of way and learned from this kind
    of gentle experience, it was sort
    of on a whim that I bought her too.

    The only thing I actually am irked
    about is trying to get her to feed,
    according to her old feeding chart
    its officially a month as of the 24th.

    I can't wait for my boys though and
    will post them up when they arrive,
    I can't think of anything to share of
    or ask about at the moment folks!!!

    RustlewoodReptiles

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