Pictures and questions (please comment)
male het pied
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08610.jpg
he has come strange markings.
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08611.jpg
no railroad tracks but some belly markings
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08613.jpg
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08616.jpg
speckle sides that the camera could not catch well
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08621.jpg
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08619.jpg
strange face mark - see the yellow half circle. he has one on each side. also see the spots on the lip? What does that mean?
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08623.jpg
female het albino - I almost can not believe how chocolaty dark she is.
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08624.jpg
look at that belly (turned a bit pink today I think a shed may be coming)
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08625.jpg
I tried to capture the dark circles within the alien heads but you can hardly see them in the photo. Very similar to a black pastel.
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08631.jpg
male het albino - I do not see anything special about him really
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08633.jpg
nice belly though
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08638.jpg
my hot female pastel
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08641.jpg
more blushing with each shed
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08644.jpg
male pastel - this guy worries me he is kind of thin and has stuck shed.
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08645.jpg
he loved his bath and did not want to come out
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08647.jpg
I do not know if I should be worried about this spot. Right in the middle of the photo there is an alien head with a dot that looks blurry or something. It is more noticeable in real life but I have no idea what it could be.
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08655.jpg
male spider
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n...h/DSC08656.jpg
female spider
Re: Pictures and questions (please comment)
Looks like the start of a very nice collection. :) I like the pattern on the het pied....nice faded head and reduced pattern...very pretty. And the "hot female pastel" is very nice!
As for the comments on specific pattern elements...well...I think sometimes we tend to over emphasize and over analyze every little scale. The variations that can occur in "normals" (which includes hets in this discussion) are tremendous. It's kind of like looking at me and intently studying the freckles on my face and wondering if the really big freckle on my left cheek means something special. No...it's just a big freckle that is unique to me and has nothing to do with the genetics that got passed on to my children, except that they all have a small smattering of little freckles across their cheeks. (None of them ended up with the mass of freckles that I have, nor my big "beauty mark".)
That's one of the wonderful things about ball pythons....is how variable they are and how beautiful each and every one of them is, BECAUSE they don't look like every other one. I love green vine snakes, for instance....but I wouldn't ever consider having more than one or two in my collection because they all pretty much look alike. But with ball pythons...no matter how "normal" they are, we can always find "beauty marks" that make each and every one of them special.
Re: Pictures and questions (please comment)
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Originally Posted by
JLC
Looks like the start of a very nice collection. :) I like the pattern on the het pied....nice faded head and reduced pattern...very pretty. And the "hot female pastel" is very nice!
As for the comments on specific pattern elements...well...I think sometimes we tend to over emphasize and over analyze every little scale. The variations that can occur in "normals" (which includes hets in this discussion) are tremendous. It's kind of like looking at me and intently studying the freckles on my face and wondering if the really big freckle on my left cheek means something special. No...it's just a big freckle that is unique to me and has nothing to do with the genetics that got passed on to my children, except that they all have a small smattering of little freckles across their cheeks. (None of them ended up with the mass of freckles that I have, nor my big "beauty mark".)
That's one of the wonderful things about ball pythons....is how variable they are and how beautiful each and every one of them is, BECAUSE they don't look like every other one. I love green vine snakes, for instance....but I wouldn't ever consider having more than one or two in my collection because they all pretty much look alike. But with ball pythons...no matter how "normal" they are, we can always find "beauty marks" that make each and every one of them special.
Very Very well said. Thank you.
Re: Pictures and questions (please comment)
Nice collection I love your spiders thin pattern good luck with them.;)