Recent Acquisitions! Opinions please :)

So Here is what i have acquired during this summer: Female Bee for $450, Pastel Woma Male for $400, Black Pastel Male for a Sumatran Blood male (trade), And a Lesser Male for $125. What do you think about the acquisitions and the prices? Also i havent heard a lot of people messing around with the Woma gene very much, does anyone know why this is??

With a lot of those animals, it really depends on the quality. For example, if the bee has a lot of spots or is browning out she wont be worth as much.

As for the woma, I think the confusion between the HGW and regular womas put some people off, and the similarity to reduced pattern normals deterred other people.

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Originally Posted by aalomon

With a lot of those animals, it really depends on the quality. For example, if the bee has a lot of spots or is browning out she wont be worth as much.

As for the woma, I think the confusion between the HGW and regular womas put some people off, and the similarity to reduced pattern normals deterred other people.

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I work with womas, and no one would ever mistake a GOOD woma for a reduced-pattern normal. I think folks just haven't seen enough of them in combos to realize their potential.
I also think they may have fallen into less favor once it came out that they wobble, just like spiders. When I first got into them, the story was that they could give you the spider pattern without the wobble...but it wasn't true.
On the other hand, woma looks better in some combos than spider does, and womas do not tend to wobble as badly as spiders.

Not a reduced-pattern normal:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...120111-2sm.jpg

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See, for me at least (and admittedly Im not a woma fan), even in that pic I see a reduced pattern normal with a funky head pattern and the funky head pattern isnt worth the price tag. But I also know that there are a lot of morphs I love that other people dont, so it goes both ways.

Woma is like Enchi--it looks nice by itself, but it shines best in combos. (It's not as versatile as Enchi, but then, what is?)

It doesn't react exactly the same way in combos that spider does, though the results are similar with some morphs. In some cases,spider will produce the better combo, and in others, woma will produce a better combo. Lesser womas are still my favorite woma combo. Pastel womas are similar to bees, but speckly. For some reason, the woma gene creates speckling in some combos. Darker womas create more speckling.

Also agree--without pics, we wouldn't know if the prices were good. ;)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8...5m7o1_1280.jpg

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The first two are my Pastel Woma from TSK and the next three are my Bee. The pics with the Bee are kinda darker, her coloration is pretty light yellow almost white-ish.

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even in that pic I see a reduced pattern normal with a funky head pattern

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I can understand not liking them, to each their own I say, but are you sure you don't need glasses :confusd:
womas look NOTHING like a reduced pattern normal???

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...s/PICT6270.jpg

If anything womas are like no white spiders with thicker webbing
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...s/PICT7981.jpg

None of the 3 womas I have had wobbled at all, no head tilt, no corkscrewing, nothing but a normal ball python in every way.
Not enough has been done with womas but the spider combo's are clearly nicer than most woma combos, making the womas take a back seat...

How about weights on them? The bee looks pretty browned out all ready. But if you say color not right on pics, then that's hard to tell. I can't say about the woma, I don't have any experience with them.

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I can understand not liking them, to each their own I say, but are you sure you don't need glasses :confusd:
womas look NOTHING like a reduced pattern normal???

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Nope dont need glasses, but *I* still still think they are similar in looks to a reduced pattern normal (and yes, Ive seen reduced patterns that are similar with the exception of the head stamp). For me, they are in the subtle morph catagory with yb, fire....however, the difference is you need a fire or a yb to make incredible combos. With womas (and that might change as people work with them more) as of now you can get a relatively inexpensive spider and make a more stand out combo...

As for the OP animals, I think they are both browning out relatively quickly so you got an ok deal. I personally would try to get your hands on the best genes possible to get babies that are brighter.