Almost Yearlings

Out of the 12 eggs my jungles gave me last year I still have 11 youngsters - one animal failed to thrive despite my best efforts and expired a couple months ago. I always planned on holding the clutch for a full year so I could observe their color changes and make more informed decisions on holdbacks. While a couple have thrown monkey wrenches in my plans, I'm mostly still eyeballing the same animals as potential keepers that I was 11 months ago. Here are a few of my favorites, for various reasons.

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The one with the most yellow saturation is the female of this trio. The other two are males that I'll probably keep an extra while to see how they further develop. One I dig because he's got lots of black tipping in his yellow and a fair amount of yellow tipping in his black - just anxious to see how he turns out. The other male, pictured here with him, is just so clean and has some larger yellow bands - if he doesn't turn out to be a screamer, I'm back to square 1 in choosing holdbacks for future clutches.
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Great looking snakes John.


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Absolutely beautiful!

They're all gorgeous John. I can see why you don't want to let them go. :)

Stunning!

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Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

They're all gorgeous John. I can see why you don't want to let them go. :)

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I wanted to keep them at least a year to check out the ontogenetic color change firsthand. They still have a ways to go but as yearlings I'm getting a better idea of where they're headed. As hatchlings, patterns aside, they pretty much all looked like this:http://i839.photobucket.com/albums/z...psrxdndq8u.jpg

I did the same pairing this year and with 15 eggs due to hatch next month, maybe I'll get off my butt and start making some hard decisions. More likely though is me just ending up having 26 growing cheynei to observe instead of 11.

Wow!

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Good job breeding those beauties John!

They all look great. I would have a hard time picking the keepers from that group.