Very interesting change

I thought this was very intereseting.

Follow the thread......

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=525793,525801

Wow.....that just makes me want my baby ball even more....knowing that there could be a slight chance of her doing that. :shock: lol that would be weird

That's amazing!

That might actually scare me if any of mine did that :)

woah. thats a trip!

WOW! i don't know what i would do if i saw that. i have been looking at mutant balls, and wanted to get one of the black and white ones. Not at 1k-3k a snake. to much money. they look so nice though. :shock:

lol, "mutant balls" never heard that one before


i think you meant ball morphs



*EDIT* BTW, the ones you are talking about are axanthic

"cmon rex, change your colors. cmon boy, you can do it!"

It's like the horses in Wizard of OZ...truly amazing!

Wow, awesome. I think that would really freak me out.

yeah if that happened to my girl i would probably have a few good minutes of panic attack before i realized that it was acutally really cool.

Um, It looks like it was edited to me.
I'll make a picture like that tonight for you guys.

i was thinking that at first, but you never know, i mean, after my snake shed once, he had a lot of white, that was like a pied, but after the next shed, it was gone, and i know it wasnt anything bad, i had it checked out, so maybe it just changed

now that i think about it


in this picture

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=525793,525804

it looks like he scewed up and didnt make part of it grey in the righ corner, and if you look at the black part, it looks like something from photoshop, its not the same shade of black

Well, I've heard of a problem hatchling BCI turning anery after a shed (and seen the animal afterwards), so it's not too unbelievable...

However, I doubt it's genetic... most likely, just some developmental deformity if it changes colours after a shed.

:shock: Thats crazy.

I see what your talking about royal-y-great, he left some brown on there it looks like. I think its fake but if its real that is one special ball.

Nah, I think it's legit. I know my way around Photoshop and know most/all techniques to do stuff like that. Usually to do a color change like that you'd select the whole body of the snake, then change colors with the color palette(hard to explain). So if he did do it, it would've done it all. So I see the parts where there still is color as a sign that it's legit. I'm sure if a ball would have really lost its color in a shed, it wouldn't lose all it's color. There'd be patches I'd think.
Man...I so wouldn't mind having a ball that did that after shed. Or maybe it chooses to do that...secret chameleon gene. :shock: ;)

If it was Legit, you'd see more balls having that happen too.
Its fake, trust me ... blow up the picture in photoshop and look at it carefully, you'll see.

all i can say is if it is photoshop, then i hope he has a job getting paid to do something so authentic looking.it could be done in photoshop, but you couldnt do it that well with just a mouse, you need the pin-pointers. i hope to get one some day. i do think color can be left in though. or maybe if it was photoshop it was done with the intent to have specks here and splotches there. i can see yellow in it's spine, and around areas where you would excpect light to fall. very cool snake or very good photoshop user???

I'd say very cool snake. I might be mistaken, but haven't other people reported the same happening to their bp's? What are the odds that they'd fake pics of it too? :o

Cool, even if it is a doctored photo...would be awesome if my jubs does that. I'm still waiting for his first shed.

i agree. i think it is real.. i saw more photos of that happening. not as drastic of a change, but, changed a lot like that. i want roswell to do that.. he would save me a couple grand

I would have to see pics of before/after, taken in the same lighting conditions. But I am a forever-skeptic, though. :)
Actually, the snake in my avatar (Bela) kinda changed a little in between sheds. She seems to be getting a bit brighter. But I really don't care, as long as she stays healthy and keeps eatin. :)

I just got a hold of a really cool Emerald... check it out :)
Really it is to demonstrate what can be done in Photoshop.... a quick hide all mask and some color adjustments. I went drastic to show the extremes that can be done. This also only took about five minutes to do so imagine what someone could have done with a little more time on thier hands.
http://www.stormyworld.net/redtail/new_etb.jpg
Heres another quick slide of the color balance and hue and saturation :)
http://www.stormyworld.net/redtail/new_etb2.jpg
Heres the original.....
http://www.stormyworld.net/coppermin...mal_7-3_05.JPG

Thats sweet Stormvya ... where can i get the Kawasaki green version ;) BTW .. how are your Emerald rescues doing?

Three of the four died... the last one which happens to be the one in the pic above is doing awesome.
Sometimes even our best efforts can do anything to help, they were severely dehydrated, underweight, and had some other issues going on.

Sorry to hear that man :(, but i'm glad that guy is still doing great!

Who knows if it is fake or not but that would truly freak me out if Bob did it. It is all crazy.