Female sunglow poss het anery

My newest pick up, from the Atlanta show. Bought from David at Ball and Chains. I'm going to get some birth info ect. when I get home. It was a close run between her and a snow, but the one snow I liked was male so she won out. Haha

More pics to come when I can get her in the sun.

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Gorgeous snake! Congrats on the pick up

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Thanks! She was my second favorite boa at the show, and she's already looking nice can't wait to see her with some size.

Here's some more pics as promised.

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Great pickup! Can't go wrong with a nice sunglow.

Nice choice Cloud, she's a real Beauty!

Thanks everyone it was a hard choice between her and a snow, but I think even if she doesn't prove out I made a good choice.


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SHe's lovely! Can't wait to see her full grown.

So I got the info back on her, and she's a Kahl strain sunglow het anery type I, and was born June 3.

I weighed her when I got her home and she's 80 grams but looked like she was holding in a poo. I've seen her out since then and she looks thinner in the back so I'm gonna root around for it in a bit and try not to disturb her.


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Nice snake,

And I really like how you have become tuned in with feeding. Cloud looks great and it's refreshing to see people who know when to slow down the food cycle for adult boas.

I can see you having an army of lean, in shape snakes.

They will live long lives by doing what you are doing.

Nice pickup.

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Nice snake,

And I really like how you have become tuned in with feeding. Cloud looks great and it's refreshing to see people who know when to slow down the food cycle for adult boas.

I can see you having an army of lean, in shape snakes.

They will live long lives by doing what you are doing.

Nice pickup.

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Thanks! The breeder I got her from implemented a similar feeding schedule; he's been feeding her a properly-sized mouse every 10 days since birth, so she's being started out right, and is pure muscle! Currently, she's on small hopper mice every 10 days. They leave a small bulge, but not much of one and the bulge disappears after 24 hours. Once she's big enough for rat fuzzies I'll begin the switch over.

I was holding out on pictures in the hope that BP.net would start working on Tapatalk again since it's quicker and easier to upload photos, but it doesn't seem that's going to happen any time soon. So, here's some more photos now that she's settled in (it's actually a lot)! She's taken one meal successfully so far, and her next feeding day is in a few days. I waited a couple days after she came home to offer as she had a big back end, and she pooed from her most recent meal ~3-4 days ago. I gave her 5 days after bringing her home to start handling her, and I've been handling her very little (once 2 days after she ate, and that last time I handled her was Tuesday). If she takes her next meal as well as her first, after that I will probably begin handling her more regularly. So far she's been a doll and isn't defensive or touchy in the least. She's very tolerant to her head being touched, even more so than Cloud ever was.

Since Saturday or Sunday, she's been regularly coming out at night to explore, and really loves the vine I have in there for her, it's got a magnetic stem so it will stay in place. She's also begun to actually use her hot end since I bumped up the thermostat's setting a bit more, it just wasn't reaching through the plastic well enough. I have yet to see her use the humid hide, but in my experience snakes only use them when they're shedding so she may just not need it yet.

I think that about covers what I've noted about her during this time, she's definitely been a treat so far! It's soooo good to have another baby BCI. Now onto pictures!

A picture I missed from the day I got her, it's my favorite from that day.
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These are from her most recent handling session.
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She looks great. She's going to look amazing in a few years.

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I believe so, too! The breeder shared a picture of one of her half-siblings, and he held onto his colors really well! I know that doesn't necessarily mean she will, but she's already exceptional imo. I'm hoping she'll keep her patterns and colors nicely into adulthood.

She was going to be one of the breeder's hold backs, but apparently he got another boa for a project and needed to let go of his hold backs to make room for it. So I got lucky. haha

I think I've got a littler periscoper....

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I realized that her feeding day was a little closer than I realized so I fed her and Sanji yesterday. I think she's officially settled in! Two meals with no problem.


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She's successfully taken her third meal, so I'm going to have to say she's completely settled in and isn't bothered by regular handling. :)

I found her like this one night. Lol
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Looks like I may be going with Nymeria to be her name, not much else I feel fits her atm.

Today it was raining so I used it to my advantage to pop her colors.

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Nice sunglow! I picked up a hypo boa from the same breeder last year and have had no issues with him whatsoever. Congrats on your new acquisition.. I think you are right, she has a lot of contrast and color for a sunglow that young.

I was thinking of getting the male snow from him, too, but I may find a different breeder for him so they aren't related. He was easy to work with and personable so I'm sure he'll get at least one more boa out of me. :P


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Wow, congrats Cloud, that snake is so awsome [emoji3], i have sunglow sharp female.


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Thanks! I definitely didn't expect to come home with a sunglow, but I couldn't imagine a better choice now. ^.^

Here are some more pics of the little beauty.

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Does she keep her color when she grows up?


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I won't know until she grows up, each sunglow is different. Generally they do but just as many don't.

One thing for sure is she isn't going to be the same as she is now.


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This is mine sunglow sharp female - 15 months old, without flash, so You can see her color ...


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Looks like her first shed with me is underway!

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If my hunch proves correct, her bright colors seem to make it easier to detect a shed cycle than with my albino checkered, who I don't know is shedding until he sheds or I catch him in the middle of blue.


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Look at those tall sides! Looks like a piece of ribbon!

Great coloring too!

Indeed she does! She came to me with this body tone and I intend to keep her this way. ^.^ Nice and lean and muscular.


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A day or two after Draco, and she's shed. Two down two to go. Unless someone else shed inside their hide....

Sorry about the fly....
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Weighed her at 88 grams, and today is feeding day for at least 3 snakes unless I find out someone else has shed.


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She decided to not even bother wrapping today.

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I think I grabbed an even smaller mouse than I thought. Should be fine though, it's not that much smaller.


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Here's some outside pictures we're almost on our last warm days here, we've had to turn on our heat the last two nights. Hopefully it will be warm enough to get some pictures of the others today when I get home.

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Look at this teeny head.
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She was squeezing me finger a little hard. Haha
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...that looks uncomfortable...
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Her "belly button" and you can see she's got just a little bit of color on her belly. It's mostly clean just with some small light dots here and there.
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In my quest to capture her red to pink sides I may have succeeded a bit.

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Full body.
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I am not typically a morph type of guy, but you have an absolute stunner there!

Very pretty snake with excellent shape and tone.

Weighed her in at 97 grams tonight, and once I bring all my snake food and Bud and Draco to the trailer, I'll see who's willing to eat.

I have officially ordered two T12's, so should see them in the next few months.

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She already looks noticeably bigger, and put on 17 grams since I got her last month. She looks empty so I think that's her accurate weight at least.


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Well I measured her on SerpWidgets at 2' long, which means she's already grown 4"! I stretched her out and she definitely seems about 2', but I couldn't get her to flatten out against the wall completely. Unlike Cloud, she knows how to move on flat surfaces so she wouldn't sit still.

So guess my eyes weren't playing tricks on me.

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She seems to be getting some extra padding, her muscles aren't as defined and she's getting a wide butt, so I think I'm going to start spreading her feedings out slightly to ~12 days rather than 10, may go every 14 if it's necessary. (May also stick to 10 days not 100% on that yet.)

She also is about ready to move up a size already. She's outgrown hopper mice but isn't quite large enough for small adults yet so I'll give her some more time before moving her up. She's not large enough to double up either, and I'd rather not feed her multiples anyway.

This is her empty, she's got a bit of splaying in the back like she's going to poop but it wasn't rounded or squishy on the bottom like it would be if she was holding onto poo. Roughly 11 days after eating iirc.
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More pics! She's got a sausage butt from a recent meal.

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This girl is growing a lot! I'm going to have to weigh her again after this meal, but it's amazing the difference ~3 months has made!

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And today's feeding day.
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She is coloring up nicely too!

Good looking snake all around!

She's probably not empty (she holds onto her poo for 2-3 feedings and lets out a big huge pile that would put my retic to shame proportionately) but I weighed her at 136 grams yesterday. She's maintaining a nice body tone, but has only shed once since I got her 5-6 months ago, so I'm thinking of upping her back to 7-10 days to see if she just needs to up her growth rate. :/

Still, I did have her eating 7-10 days for several months after her first shed with me, so surely she should have shed then, too? Especially after growing several inches. Maybe she'll shed and just suddenly explode by 6" like River? Idk. It's not bothering me too much because even when snakes grow a lot, they don't always shed reliably (cue River).

Anyways here's some recent photos.

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She still looks to be visibly growing, so I'm not sure why she's not shedding.


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So this is how her last feeding went.

I took her out of her tub so I could replace her paper towels as she had taken a big dump, and placed her near her vine so she'd crawl off my hand since she wouldn't let go of my fingers.

She ended up sitting there with the mouse in her mouth not moving at all with big dilated pupils.

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When I went to put the lid back on her tub I heard a rapid "thwuck thwuck thwuck." I looked down to find she had struck at the air with the mouse still in her mouth and was now violently thrashing around trying to wrap around the mouse. >.>

She ended up succeeding but has further convinced me she's weird.


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I finally got Nymeria to flatten against the wall by letting her climb into the trimming. She came out to 26", so she's grown 2" since her last measurement in November!

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Belly.

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Where her tail pattern is.

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And what a full belly looks like 3 days later, just a rounded tail.

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Amazing looking reptile CtB! Keep up the good work with her. :gj:

So I'm borrowing my mom's new Nikon D3200 until I get my Canon Rebel next month, and I got a few shots of Sanji and Nymeria last night.

Nymeria's colors are finally true to life, and you can actually see her pink sides for once!

Everyone ate today, so it will be a few days before I start taking any more photos.

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Well Nymeria still hasn't shed, despite continuing to grow. She has only shed once since I got her in July, despite having grown 6" in that time. Her first shed was when she grew 4" in 2 months, and she's grown another 2" since then, her last measurement being 26". She's also sitting at 154 grams, which is weight gain of right around 20 grams since January.

My rodent shipment should be arriving this Thursday, so I will be seeing if she's ready for small adult mice and even if she isn't, the bigger meal should spark a shed. If she's not ready, I'll move her back to hoppers for the time being, but hoppers are seeming kinda small lately. Going off weight, it will be a big meal, 8-11% of her weight since they're quoted as 13-18 grams on Big Cheese's website, but hopefully size wise it won't be too bad. They're mainly for Sanji, so it's not a big deal if she's isn't big enough for them yet.

Here she is coiling around a hopper. These photos aren't too good to show size, but the mouse is just a little smaller than her widest part. They've been leaving noticeable bulges up until end of December. The absolute biggest ones still leave bulges, but I don't have any big ones left, there's maybe 3 or 4 hoppers total now.

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Trying to eat the hopper bent in half - it was too big and she failed.

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Just a little fun belly/tail shot.

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Her scales are starting to look funny because she's holding onto her shed for so long. They look kinda old.

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Lately, she's been having a very subtle iridescence that is more noticeable than usual, so I've been hoping that means she's shedding, but it's been 4 or 5 days now and her eyes are still clear and her colors haven't changed.

Forgot to include these in the last post!

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And a closer photo.

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Tail knot.

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After I put her back in, she wanted to hold onto something so I let her grab onto the vine.

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So cute Cloud it must be Boa Season lol she is stunning. ....

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I got some more definitive photos of her post-meal bulge, and seems she's the perfect size for adult mice! This mouse was one of the smallest from the bag, so her next feeding will be a bigger mouse from the main bag (I've separated all the 15 gram and under mice into a separate freezer bag to feed off first).

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She still has not shed, this will be the 6th month since her last shed. I'm not sure what's going on, but I'll give her a few more of these larger meals and if she still doesn't shed I might need some input as to what's taking her so long. :/

Well, Nymeria's colors are so faded now that none of her photos turned out good today. :/ Her colors have gotten so pale her scales stand out more than her colors or patterns, but her belly and saddles aren't pinkish and her eyes are clear. *shrug*

She measured out at 27" in length and 174 grams today/last night.

Here's a photo showing her size.

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Turns out Nymeria is actually a hair under 28", not a hair over 27", I let her out while I dampened her EcoEarth and she was stretched out completely so I took the chance to re-measure her. It was a lot easier to measure her when she wasn't crawling every which way.

She's also FINALLY in shed.

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She's currently in Bud's old tub, and was being heated by the heat lamp I was using with him while I waited for the heat tape to arrive.

I've got the heat lamp on a thermostat, so I may just continue with it. I've been wanting to see if I get any difference in growth and digestion from ambient heat, and she won't be big enough for her own T12 for at least a year or two, so I may keep her in this set up for a few months and see if I notice any difference. Both her meals were eaten on heat tape, and took 3-4 days for the bulge to dissipate and I have yet to see any feces. Since she's getting ready shed, and I don't feed during sheds, this will give her time to defecate. Then we'll see if I notice more frequent poops, and if the bulge dissipates faster in this set up. I feel like she just had a hard time digesting on the heat tape despite an 80-85F room temp and 95F surface temp. She only pooped once every 2 months and it took 3 days for even a slight bulge to dissipate. I haven't noticed the same problems with Sanji, and I have yet to see how the new ones do on it, and River digested just fine on it as well.

Nymeria deep in blue.

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She's so beautiful. Glad she's finally in the shed process. 6 months is forever!

Glad she's going into shed for you, and Cloud on the temperature I feel the same way about the Heat I had to turn my heat up a tad on Both my Baby Boas and now they are doing better.

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