New addition: Quorra, my second BP!

So I've only had my first BP for a few weeks now, but he has rekindled a long lost love of herps that I used to have when I was younger. After doing lots of research and looking at pictures of different morphs, I absolutely fell in love with the Coral Glow/Banana morph and knew I'd end up with one. I happened to find a good local breeder (Boa Republic) who had a 2 month old female Coral Glow for sale at a reasonable price (compared to some of what I've been seeing). That's how I came home with Quorra!

She is extremely curious and docile, especially compared to my Mojave male who is still a bit of an aggressive youngster (though he is a voracious eater). Quorra on the other hand hardly flinches when she sees a human and instantly wants to crawl up on you and explore. Since both are wee babies (Munch the Mojave is 100g, Quorra is 91g), I'll be ordering an animal plastics T8 with divider for them to share for the time being. One day I hope to breed them together and make some beautiful babies.

Wednesday is her eating day, so hopefully she will eat for me. I won't be touching her until then. She is quite stunning, though I wasn't quite able to capture her color with my iPhone. I think a proper camera and lighting are required to get good shots of her, however I tried my best to snap a few pics:

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The last one kinda shows how bright her colors are. I am quite happy with my pair of BPs and can't wait to watch them grow up.

She looks great. Welcome to the forum, looks like it's to late to warn you about the ball python addiction. You seem to be well, on your way to no return.:D

Love me some 🍌

She is beautiful!


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Wow I'm really loving her colors.


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Beautiful Ball Python, you'll have your 3rd soon enough. :D

You done good Treaux, she's beautiful! :)

u gotta female Coral Glow? wow, from what i've read and seen those are hard to come by. how much was her sale price if u don't mind me asking?

she's a cutie for sure, congrats! :)

Thanks for all the kind words everyone! She is an absolute sweetie and I can't wait until tomorrow to see if she will eat for me. She is much more docile than my older male and likes just tangling up in my hand and hanging out there. In fact, that's why I put the egg carton in there and I'll see her wrapped around it in all sorts of fashions every night. Once out of his cage, my Mojave just likes to move so my hands are just a treadmill for him for the time being.

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u gotta female Coral Glow? wow, from what i've read and seen those are hard to come by. how much was her sale price if u don't mind me asking?

she's a cutie for sure, congrats! :)

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I ended up paying $480 for her. A bit more than I intended, but once I saw her it was too late. Coral Glows are coming down in price it seems, but with the whole male maker thing and already having a male Mojave, I wanted to get one I could breed eventually. I imagine little Mojave Coral Glows one day (I know...years away).

Here's a shot of her current habitat. I plan on ordering my T8 soon as I really like them being more visible than being in a tub. I also keep eyeing racks, though I know I'd have to fill it up if I did that. :oops: I added a second make-shift hide for her to see if she needed it, but I haven't seen her anywhere except in the warm rock hide when I've checked.

She's thinking "You call that a hide???"

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"Did you put my real hide down here?"

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It was a good day! Quorra ate for me for the first time. She very efficiently took care of a hopper mouse and then snuggled up under her warm rock after I put her back (I pulled her out to feed in a tub just in case anything went wrong). My friend's underweight 2 month old normal named Wombat (poor little guy only weighs 66 grams still) also managed to scarf down a hopper. Lastly my little buddy Munch finished off the fuzzy mouse we tried to feed Wombat last week, which he killed, but wouldn't eat. Munch didn't need another meal since that was his fifth rodent in the last 20 days so he's far from starving. He's starting to become my rodent garbage disposal whenever there's leftovers. I am clearly balls out crazy at this point and it's taking everything I have to resist buying more. Holding some beautiful BELs today at my local shop didn't help!

Just an update. She is growing like a weed! She has also made a place for herself in my heart and is absolutely my favorite snake (and I'm actually up to 4 now with a new lesser female). She appears to love being handled and every time I enter the room her little head pokes out of her hide. If I put my hand out right in front of her hide, she'll come out and sniff around and climb aboard if she feels like being handled. She really has the best personality of any ball python I've handled.

She was 91 grams a month ago and just weighed in at 162 grams empty. Last night I fed her a fuzzy rat and realized as she gulped it down that it was way too small for her now. Sure enough when she was finished she just looked at me and started to search around for more food. I guess it's on to rat pups next week.

Gonna have to try and take some real pics of her soon. Here's some more crappy cellphone ones for now.

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She's gorgeous! I'm holding out hope to manage to get a Super Pastel Banana eventually. I seem to have a thing for banana snakes... since both of my Kings are bananas. Yet I actually don't much like the fruit....

I don't find banana the most fitting term. I like coral glow better. The pattern reminds me more of coral with the black spots and such. I do plan to breed her one day. She is 50% het orange ghost so hopefully I can pair her with an orange ghost and prove it out.

Here's a better pic of her colors:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2021.22.41.jpg

Gosh she looks amazing [emoji7] I've always had an obsession with bananas and if my parents would let me get another that'd definitely be it. Scared for when I move out tho my house might just be a snake zoo [emoji12]

It's fun revisiting this thread and seeing how tiny she was. Quorra recently turned a year old and is now over 700 grams and still an extremely sweet and curious little snake. She is my best at being handled and the least head shy of all my snakes (of which I've acquired a few more...).

Here's a pic of her in her current state of chub:

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And to really get an idea of her size:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2015.05.00.jpg

Come a long way from being a little 90 gram worm...