Champagne butter fire and friends

Hey! Haven't been on this forum for a while and due to work I havent had the time to keep a large collection so I have had to slim it down. Currently I only keep eight snakes, and here are three favorites. Quality isnt great since my camera is at my girlfriends house so I had to use my cellphone, but I hope you can enjoy the pics anyway!

First up is a Champagne butter fire male about 6 months old. Hoping to breed him next season, he eats like a champ.

[IMG]http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...ps98qicylb.jpg[/IMG]

Second up is my Blonde pastel butter enchi blaze 50% ph pied female.

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...psfqx1razs.jpg

And last but not least my 2014 Super blaze butter fire female which I am also hoping to breed the coming season, shes a little over 1200g.

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...psgtvjwctd.jpg

For those who are wondering about the blaze its a fairly new subtle enhancing gene originating here in Sweden. Doesnt seem to be allelic to any other genes (atleast not so far) but I do think it cleans up patterns and lightens colors a bit.

Thanks for looking:)

"only 8 snakes" lol. Wow these guys are stunning! The blaze girl is just.. Wow. Congratulations, your collection is something to be jealous over! :)

Thank you for your kind words. Going from 35 snakes and having hundres of breeding rats down to 8 snakes and 0 (living) rats is quite different. For me, keeping 35 snakes and breeding lots and lots of rats (selling more then I used to feed my own snakes) just took to much time when having a full time job.

Im sure I will get more snakes eventually even though Ive promised myself not to... They are so addictive! "Just one more...".

I'll post some more pics soon on the others in the collection:)

I know what I mean. The other day I almost picked up another baby ball but decided against it. It can be super addictive to keep these guys!
Do You feed frozen now? I would like to try it again but he just goes on strike if I offer anything but live :/
Anyhow, your morphs are stunners, and the best part is that they look healthy :3

beautiful BP's. those Blaze combos are absolutely gorgeous!

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Originally Posted by NoStepOnSnek

I know what I mean. The other day I almost picked up another baby ball but decided against it. It can be super addictive to keep these guys!
Do You feed frozen now? I would like to try it again but he just goes on strike if I offer anything but live :/
Anyhow, your morphs are stunners, and the best part is that they look healthy :3

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Yeah I only feed frozen/thawed. Actually, here in Sweden feeding living rodents to any reptile or other animal was made illegal a couple of years ago due to the suffering of the rodent being relatively slowly killed by the snake/other animal.

The law has never been enforced as far as I know, it's just kinda one of those laws who exists to encourage people to feed f/t to minimize suffering of the rodents.

And thank you for the complimenting my animals:D

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Originally Posted by Ax01

beautiful BP's. those Blaze combos are absolutely gorgeous!

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Thank you very much:)

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Originally Posted by sweballp

Yeah I only feed frozen/thawed. Actually, here in Sweden feeding living rodents to any reptile or other animal was made illegal a couple of years ago due to the suffering of the rodent being relatively slowly killed by the snake/other animal.

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I don't feed live, but how do you legislate against a natural prey/predator relationship? They prefer the slow death of a starving snake that refuses to eat F/T? Seems a bit silly to waste time of legislature in such a manner. How do they know the deaths of the rats is humane prior to shipping? Ehhh, well anyways im off topic a bit. Gorgeous snakes! I love your blaze combos, haven't seen many.

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Originally Posted by DTK

I don't feed live, but how do you legislate against a natural prey/predator relationship? They prefer the slow death of a starving snake that refuses to eat F/T? Seems a bit silly to waste time of legislature in such a manner. How do they know the deaths of the rats is humane prior to shipping? Ehhh, well anyways im off topic a bit. Gorgeous snakes! I love your blaze combos, haven't seen many.

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I of course know what you mean and do feel the same way on some level. However, nature isn't always good, in fact, nature is fairly often very cruel. So I think minimizing suffering, natural or not, must generally be considerad a good thing. But as you said; kinda waste of time. Then again, it's politics, wasting time is a big part of what they do;)

Since I actually sent us off topic im gonna try to put us right back whit a pic of a blonde pastel super enchi blaze which is a sister to the blonde pastel butter enchi blaze I posten before.

[IMG]http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6fbr7box.jpg[/IMG]

Absolutely stunning reptiles you have there sir! I would love to have 1 of each. Lol. Thanks for sharing. :gj:

Look at her head! I've never seen one like it. How much would a morph like that go for? Not that I need any, my hands are full with my one regular guy, but just out of curiosity?