Denton line longicauda progression

Just beautiful!


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Absolutely gorgeous, I'm super jealous. I've wanted to get a longicauda for so long and just haven't taken the plunge.

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Absolutely gorgeous, I'm super jealous. I've wanted to get a longicauda for so long and just haven't taken the plunge.

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I like 'em too, but I have too many snakes already so I have to live vicariously thru others here. :cool:

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I like 'em too, but I have too many snakes already so I have to live vicariously thru others here. :cool:

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Yes, that's what I will be doing for at least another few years with any new species. I promised myself if I got the retics, no more new species for a long time. Better to perfect my husbandry with what I have than trying to learn tons of new things all at once. I really need to move first too, their enclosures take up so much more space than a corn or BP. Maybe some day though! Lucky for us this thread is loaded with amazing pics :)

Moving with a lot of big enclosures wouldn't be fun either- better to move first.

Can verify that moving with larger enclosures isn't all that fun, even the relatively small and light 4'x2'x2' PVC enclosures. While I was able to move the boas' 4'x2'x2' and 20L with some help ahead of the rest of my stuff on my last move, it isn't something I'll be able to repeat again, particularly if I have more than one 4'x2'x2'. Either the enclosures would have to be disassembled or I'd have to get a U-Haul/rental truck. I'd definitely advise keeping your group/collection/string o' snakes small and on the very easily managed side before you settle down into a permanent location. Your sanity (and moving help) will thank you later. :gj:

On that note... if anyone was actively saving room for a longicauda in their house, Kuzco's breeder (Allison Theus/Crispysnakes) has decided to repeat that pairing that led to him this season. My forthcoming Papuan carpet will be the only snake I add this year and the last snake I add for a while, so y'all don't need to worry about me trying to snap up longicauda ahead of you. ;)

Moving is certainly one of my least favorite things to do, which is why I keep putting it off. 7 years here even though it was never meant to be permanent, just a step up from before.

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On that note... if anyone was actively saving room for a longicauda in their house, Kuzco's breeder (Allison Theus/Crispysnakes) has decided to repeat that pairing that led to him this season. My forthcoming Papuan carpet will be the only snake I add this year and the last snake I add for a while, so y'all don't need to worry about me trying to snap up longicauda ahead of you. ;)

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Why must you tempt me :O I'm behaving.

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Buddy... I gave you your hide back for a reason. Wanna use it?

Kuzco didn't feel like coming out today, so I let him be. I listened to an Animals at Home episode with Lori Torrini recently and decided to try some new choice-based stuff with Kuzco. It'll be interesting to see how it goes, given how shy he is.

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Kuzco was out and cruising tonight, so I took him out for some supervised "explore" time. Got some nice photos of him in the basket.

Bonus: "I'm comfy, I swear!" (Ignore the abysmal humidity reading; the probe's a fair way off the ground where the humidity's actually okay.)

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You'd never know he just ate. Already giving me the face and looking for more.

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Got a couple of nice pictures of Kuzco in the basket today. Having him sitting comfortably in the basket definitely made cage maintenance a lot easier for the both of us!

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Very nice. I just love his deep chocolate colors.


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He's looking dapper!

The blacks are really kicking in on your longi, looks fantastic [emoji106][emoji106]

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More maintenance, more basket time. The wicker actually poses a good climbing challenge for the boas - it's pretty smooth, so they really have to use their muscles and grip to climb.

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gorgeous snake, they're defiantly getting bigger and their colors more vibrant! or that's just the lighting.

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More maintenance, more basket time. The wicker actually poses a good climbing challenge for the boas - it's pretty smooth, so they really have to use their muscles and grip to climb.

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Not to mention they look fantastic on them! :sweeet:

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Happy first Gotcha Day to my favorite little longi! It's definitely been quite a year. Hopefully there will be many more Gotcha Days to come!

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Not sure how you get your animals to sit so still for photos... feel free to come visit and instruct my gang on a photo shoot etiquette [emoji23]
Great looking longi!


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Not sure how you get your animals to sit so still for photos... feel free to come visit and instruct my gang on a photo shoot etiquette [emoji23]
Great looking longi!


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Same! I never want to post pictures because I can never seem to get them as high of quality as what I'm seeing others posting without tons of effort.

He's so beautiful, & it's really fun to look back on the day you first unwrapped his little blue self...you sure made a great choice with this one! :love:

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Great looking longi!

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Thanks! I wish there was a technique I could share, but most of the time the good, sit-pretty photos come from Kuzco being shy (and hunkering down in place) or Adelita being lazy. She's pretty relaxed and deliberate in her movements (when I'm not trying to hold her for a size update photo), so she's easy to photograph. A gut feeling says the Papuan's going to be a bit harder to get good portraits of. :P As of now, it looks like I may be able to finally test that theory next week.

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He's so beautiful, & it's really fun to look back on the day you first unwrapped his little blue self...you sure made a great choice with this one! :love:

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Thanks! Yeah, I love my bashful little guy - as far as I'm concerned, he's still my dream longi. I actually thought he was going to be in blue again today, lol. Both of the kids are looking a bit dull and have been spending more time on the heat lately, which is typically cue to them building up a shed. It looked like Kuzco's eyes were going a little bit cloudy yesterday, but that didn't pan out (yet).

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A gut feeling says the Papuan's going to be a bit harder to get good portraits of. :P As of now, it looks like I may be able to finally test that theory next week...

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Great looking longi!


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Sorry, Wrongpython - not trying to hijack the thread at all, but this might be helpful.

Your snakes don't listen and sit still on command? What kind of disciplined owners are you? You know that tough love is for their own good!

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Four thoughts here.

First, if your camera, including most phone cameras, has a setting for rapid pics and/or can take more than 2-3 pics a second (many DSLR and mirrorless digital cameras can), just take 10 pics in a few seconds and one is bound to be good :). They are digital anyway, just throw out the ones you don't like. It's simple, not like when I was a kid and I had to walk both ways uphill in the snow to develop my own pictures from the raw film.

Secondly, many cameras (and again - I believe many phones) have an "action" setting. You likely, especially in lower light like indoors, get the best/most accurate color, but you should be in better focus. All this feature does is speed up the shutter speed so the picture is exposed to light over shorter period of time. However, because of this, a moving snake will not make (as much of) the blurred effect that you get on a standard setting.

Third, many phones have a setting where it takes a "live" photo. This is similar to burst mode because you get 10 photos in one +/- and can pick the best one. On a DSLR or mirrorless camera you can take short videos at the highest setting and many video editors let you take a picture from the video at relatively high resolution. 4K video allows for very nice photos and you get 24-30 frames/photos a second.

Finally, get a Katie/wife/partner. Katie is great at holding the reptiles so I can take pictures, often in the above ways, and that's so much easier than trying to hold and take pictures, or let them "wander" and take pics. Katie is even better and letting me hold (especially the bigger snakes like Behira - BI) and she takes the pictures.

Hope this helps. Moderators - does it make sense to put this post somewhere else too? Is there a photo section or maybe I can post in general herp as well?

Not tooting my own horn, but I think this might be helpful to other users as well.

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Hope this helps. Moderators - does it make sense to put this post somewhere else too? Is there a photo section or maybe I can post in general herp as well?

Not tooting my own horn, but I think this might be helpful to other users as well.

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How about in the BP Pictures forum- https://ball-pythons.net/forums/foru...63-BP-Pictures, & right under the sticky "How to post pictures"-?

Or better yet, under the Photography forum: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/foru...22-Photography ;)

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Looks like someone was in the process of shedding on his Gotcha Day after all! Just started going opaque the past few days.

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I thought I heard a crinkly noise behind me an hour or two ago... Kuzco literally went and shed behind my back!

Enjoy a (very) freshly shed longi. My apologies to Kuzco for disturbing him twice in one day. You can have another day off from me tomorrow, bud.

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He is a handsome guy! Looking good after a fresh shed!

Looking great, nice when there true blacks start to. Kick in [emoji7][emoji7]

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He is a handsome guy! Looking good after a fresh shed!

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Thanks! Feliz was looking mighty fine after his shed, too. Your whole crew is looking great!

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Thanks! Your longis are looking great, too. It is fun watching his melanistic side come through. On top of his black markings intensifying, he's actually starting to develop a melanistic wash, particularly through his back end. That seems to be something pretty common in Denton line longis. I'm not quite sure how and to what degree that will play out with him. It'll be quite interesting to see if he goes from a bright, relatively clean youngster to an almost IMG-like adult. Either way, I'll love him.

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Both of the girls were hanging out in open tonight after a weather system passed through. I thought it was odd that Kuzco wasn't doing the same... only to find out he took a little more literal approach. [emoji14]

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Somebody's going through a growth spurt and starting to look his age!

Kuzco's starting to fill out and look a little more mature as of late. He's finally ready for small mice now and will be getting one this weekend. The Reptilinks order with the links and quail arrived yesterday, so I figured I'd thaw a mouse out for him to help scent the link I'll offer to Adelita. All of the snakes here have been losing their minds the past few days and are looking to eat! We've had a few big weather systems blow through with warm spring air, and they're definitely picking up on it.

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Both of the boas have been super perky since some spring weather moved in. Kuzco perked up when I went to clean his water bowl, so I took him out for some time on the porch and a little hang time outside of his cage. He seemed to enjoy it!

He's definitely starting to get a more mature look to him. He was just about the spitting image of his dad today.

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I felt my longicauda took forever to colour up and look adult, seem really slow growing too.
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Thanks!

Yeah, those black markings of his are becoming nice and inky. It seems like he's staying brighter and less melanistic than most of his siblings, though. I've seen a progression photos of some of his littermates and few look like they're going IMG. They have that full body melanistic wash, kind of like what Jasmine has going on. I had a feeling that Kuzco was going to take more after Oolong (perhaps with more of Jasmine's base scale color), and things certainly seem to be trending that way.

And yeah, the rate at which longicauda mature and grow is positively glacial, even compared to other boas. I've heard a few keepers stateside say that they wait until their females are five or seven years old before they attempt to breed. They definitely move to the beat of their own drum!

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Wasn't planning on having a snake out at midnight... but Kuzco was crawling around the rim of his tank and asking to be let out, so who was I to say no? He was very happy to be indulged! Lots of happy tongue flicking and exploration. A thunderstorm ended up rolling through about an hour later, so that might of had something to do with it.

It's also time for the snakes to eat, so Kuzco was probably hunting around for food as well. Debating if I want to offer him another mouse or his first quail.

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Decided to offer Kuzco a day-old quail tonight. Down the hatch it went, no scenting required. :) Hopefully it sits in his stomach well and the pokey bits (beak and nails) don't cause him any discomfort.

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I was wondering why Kuzco was hugging his heat this week... turns out he went into shed about three weeks early! I guess a spring growth spurt and bumping up a feeder size will do that to 'ya.

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Yes that will do the trick, that's for sure still looks awsome in shed[emoji7][emoji7]

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Somebody shed and is feeling good!

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He's looking great after his shed

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Kuzco's heading back into shed again. His last two sheds have come earlier than normal -- he used to shed every three months like clockwork, but his last shed came in at a little over two months, and it hasn't quite been two months this time. Not sure how I feel about that.

He has jumped up to small mice this year, though, so that may have something to do with it. I've heard that snakes will have growth spurts when they bump up to said feeder size, and I think that may be what's going on here. He certainly seems to have grown the past few months...

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Kuzco’s a good looking boa. I wouldn’t be overly concerned about the slightly more frequent sheds recently. I looked over my boas shed records the last couple years and they both increased in frequency during the warmer months that coincided with heavier feeding and decreased in the cooler months. You’re certainly doing very well by them both. Cheers!


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I wouldn't be concerned either, once there food is increased its surprising how much growth they put on. its bound to bring on a closer shed cycle as the girth and length increase
Looking great by the way

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Thanks y'all. That does make me feel a little better. Guess I'm just not used to having a baby go through this intense of a growth spurt, haha.

Kuzco definitely seems to be feeling fine. He's in shed, had a substantial meal less than a week ago, and already stalking the floor for food! Pretty sure an approaching storm system has him riled up -- out of all my snakes, he seems the most in tune with the weather.

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More frequent shed could also easily be because he damaged his scales somehow as shedding is a mean to fix damages to skin too ... I'd really wouldn't worry.

I'd start to worry if they stop shedding, pooping or moving :)

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Celebrating Kuzco's second birthday a bit late with a perfect shed! I actually caught him in the act this time, haha.

Tangentially, his mom (Jasmine) just dropped her new litter yesterday. Talk about consistency!

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He's looking awsome.
I saw crispy snakes had that new litter on Instagram [emoji106][emoji106]

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Kuzco is looking spectacular, WrongPython. Between the pics from you and Richard, I've definitely been feeling steadily more tempted to eventually get a longicauda as well ...

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Another summer growth spurt shed in the books for Kuzco! The "feed them a mix of stuff when they're hungry, within reason" feeding regimen seems to be working for him, too. The mix of day-old quail and small mice yielded some nice, consistent growth and sustained good body condition. It looks like the MegaBlend Reptilinks will start getting worked into the mix -- he was finally large enough to try one the other night, and it was taken with gusto!

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