Belly slit on baby BP

Just a quick question about our new and very young BP (btw Mike loves her!). We've never had one this young and she has the little slit on her belly. It's not open or anything but I've just never noticed it on Malachi who was just over 4 months when we got him from Adam. Is it more prominent up to a certain time after they hatch?

This is the 'belly button' where the yolk is absorbed. I see it on some of my older snakes too.

Thanks April. I've just never really noticed it as prominently on our bigger BP's.

Jo,


Kashmire's was pretty prominent when I first got him and it faded as he got older. ;)

My small girl sunshine/mystery has it also.She's the smallest I've ever had , I've never noticed it on any of other's.

Snakes have belly buttons?! Cool!

THATS WHAT IT WAS! ook! when akua was little he had a slit kind of thing on his belly! ooh yah im glad its not sumthing bad!! haha

Harry my 6' burm still has his belly button.

yeah, a few of mine you can see the "belly button", on others you just can't. It is cool that they have em' though!!!! Right after hatching, they really do have the "button" on the belly.......meant to take a pic of it the last hatch season on Percy, but it closes up really fast and turns into the "slit" in a matter of days....

Well I really do need to measure and weigh this little snake, though I don't want to disturb her quiet week. She's tiny, has this belly slit and the sort of pinkish blush I see on pics of very young snakes so I'm thinking she's probably maybe only 4 to 6 weeks old. I've heard they lose that pinkish hue after a couple of sheds.

Jo, I would say it may be even younger......if I remember correctly,Percy and Gambit's belly button slit was just about closed up completely and healed over after just two weeks.......

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

Jo, I would say it may be even younger......if I remember correctly,Percy and Gambit's belly button slit was just about closed up completely and healed over after just two weeks.......

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If it is still pinkish I would say 2-4 weeks max.... maybe even a bit younger

Actually I just posted new pics and measurements/weights of her in another thread but basically....she's about 13 or 14 inches long, 110 grams....her belly slit is fairly apparent...she's got a pinkish tone to the sides of her body...she's chubby though so obviously has been eating.

When we took her out tonight to weigh and get the belly pics she was pretty nice. No strikes and let Mike rub under her chin and move her around for the photo's. She didn't even try to nab me once! Whooohooo! Hopefully tomorrow when Mike has a day off, he'll come up with a nice name for her.