New to the Forum showing off my Babies! DUW

I introduced myself in the intro section and now I want to show off my "kids"!

First off is my Pastel. I got him someone who didn't want him any more. He was covered in mites and had shed stuck all over him. I've had him for over a year now and boy has he grown! He's so bright now too!
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP008.jpg
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP007.jpg

Next is a big female I got at the Dixie show here in AL. This one I've been calling Big Momma. She's currently at 1700grams on empty and is a PIG! The first picture is when I first got her two months ago, see the white spots? I'm not sure what those are from but the breeder said they were normal? Anyway she just shed and the white spots have faded in, just thought they were odd! Before I got her the breeder said he only fed live and WISHED his snakes would eat F/T. Big Momma has been eating F/T since her first feeding with us and doesn't even care :)

See the spots on her neck?
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/.../snakes639.jpg
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP001.jpg
Here is her neck now.
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP002.jpg
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP003.jpg
Next is my lovely little one. She( or he) is a little normal that I got from someone who couldn't take care of their snake any more. She came in the same 20L as a lovely boa. The owners said they had both snakes for at least a year and had been feeding them both live mice pinks the whole time. Little bit came to us at 125 grams and is now up to 235 grams and eating large f/t rat pinks.
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP012.jpg
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP014.jpg
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...2011/BP015.jpg

Here's my Spider (ph pied) male. He's in shed right now but i'm happy to show off an older picture of him Lol. I'll get new ones once he's sheds his old skin.
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...camera1244.jpg
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...camera1246.jpg

My other normal female is in shed too. She came to me with the Pastel male in the same condition. She's been a great eater and is climbing to a good weight. She weight in at 975grams at her last weight in but i'm sure she's more than that now :)
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...camera1263.jpg

I also have a het albino pair that I've had for a few months but they are both a bit grumpy and i have top wait till i have help to take pictures of them. I may be breeding them late in the season but if anything I'll be breeding them next season and I can't wait to do so!!! I'd love to have an albino :)

Very nice! The pastel is awesome

Nice animals, that pastel is super bright!

Very nice collection. :gj:

your pastel is great. im glad he is being well cared for now. and welcome.

Nothin' beats a nice big female.

Except possibly a nice bright pastel...

Thanks All~ I love my Pastel, he's super bright and these pictures aren't even the best of him!I can't wait to take him outside and take pictures again!

That pastel is so pretty! I love his neck/head pattern!

Very nice babies you have there especially the pastel!

Dang, that Pastel looks like a Desert. Great looking collection!

Cheers,
-Matt

Top quality pastel!

Congratulations on that Pastel... :cool:

Matt K: I've always just assumed he is a Pastel to be honest. Since he was purchased from someone who could have cared less for him they just said he was a normal but i knew even when he had the shed stuck all over him that he was something different since I could see the bright patches. Once he shed I started looking at the morph list to figure out what he was. Pastel was the closest thing at the time but he keeps getting so much brighter with each shed.

Is there a chance he could be something like a desert? I don't know the cost of that morph is it around that of a pastel because I paid $70 for him and the female. That's one of the main reason I figured he was a Pastel also.

Thank you everybody. :) Everyone always loves my little boy(haha he's around 800 grams now, getting to be a nice big boy). He's locked with Big Momma now and it's their 2nd hook up so I'm hoping for a nice clutch of eggs with pretty little ones... **Excited!**:snake:

all are very cute!

the pastel is nice and bright and i like the spider too

Very nice babies :gj:

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Originally Posted by MorganM

Matt K: I've always just assumed he is a Pastel to be honest. Since he was purchased from someone who could have cared less for him they just said he was a normal but i knew even when he had the shed stuck all over him that he was something different since I could see the bright patches. Once he shed I started looking at the morph list to figure out what he was. Pastel was the closest thing at the time but he keeps getting so much brighter with each shed.

Is there a chance he could be something like a desert? I don't know the cost of that morph is it around that of a pastel because I paid $70 for him and the female. That's one of the main reason I figured he was a Pastel also.

Thank you everybody. :) Everyone always loves my little boy(haha he's around 800 grams now, getting to be a nice big boy). He's locked with Big Momma now and it's their 2nd hook up so I'm hoping for a nice clutch of eggs with pretty little ones... **Excited!**:snake:

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Chances are he's just a very nice Pastel. It is interesting that he was sold as a normal though. Deserts are prohibitively expensive in comparison to Pastels, and are one of the more rare and desired morphs on the market right now, though there is some controversy about the ability of females to lay fertile eggs. The best I can say is that the only way to really start figuring stuff out is to breed him and see what pops up, and it seems like you're working on that now! Good luck with him either way, he's definitely one of the finest examples of a Pastel I've seen! I'm sure none of us would mind seeing some more pictures of him!

Cheers,
-Matt

If I remember right they went to a local reptile show and their 10 year old boy wanted the two snakes so they bought them. Same story as I always hear, the kids got tired of it and they don't want to take care of it... Makes me so mad! A 10 year old isn't truly responsible at that age, so to me the snake wasn't his it was the families and the family didn't want to take care of it or even know how... I'll get off my soap box before I get mad LOL

Here's some more pics of him :P
This was their first hook up at the end of September.
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/.../snakes689.jpg
And here's their hook up from tonight :)
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...Ratties002.jpg

He's loves his girls big Lol

Very nice collection. Glad to hear the rescues have a good home now.

Wow that pastel is hot! Looks like a lemon pastel in one pic with how bright he is :) And those white on the normal that the breeder says is "normal" looks like scarring to me especially with the way it's healed after shedding.

thanks for sharing the pictures of your collection! and for taking good care of these bps nothing feels better than a great rescue :D

@Evan385: I thought it may be scarring but I wasn't sure since they were nice and smooth patches, it just looked like discolored scales. Now that it is fading away I think your right. I know she has a bite mark on the top of her head but i think these were more likely burns from an escape attempt?


Thank you all for the nice comments :) I'm always happy to see these guys do so well after I get them. Gotta be doing something right :D