Meet the New Snakes

Well the numbers just rose a bit around here with the addition of 5 new female ball pythons, bringing the number up to 3 male BPs, 15 female BPs and of course the 2 male boas and the 1 female milksnake. Thought you all might enjoy a few pics (or I'd get killed by Robin if I didn't get my butt busy and post them tonight LOL).

This is Edana, her name means "fiery" and she's an 07 normal female. She's quite a cutie and the second most fierce of this new 07 group.
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Next is Kennis, her name means "beautiful" and she is just that. I really adore her pattern (even if my poor camera skills cut off her tail from the pic!).
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This is Darra, her name means "small, great one". She's the littlest of the babies and the most gentle.
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Last but certainly not least is Fianna, whose name means "warrioress". She's a real spitfire of a baby, and giving Edana a run for the "boldest baby award" LOL. Mike just fell in love with her!
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The 5th snake is an adult female. She's an LTC and reportedly laid a clutch last season. She hasn't regained her weight well and is apparently a poor/sporadic feeder. We're going to be taking things very slow with her and just hope to help her much as we did with Saoirse. We named her Danu, who is the celtic goddess of fertility. She's very shy and wouldn't show her face to say hi today. Cross your fingers for this one folks. I really want to see her come into her full glory again.
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Well that's the group currently upstairs in our master bedroom in quarantine. Thank you to AndrewH for hooking us up with these females who will be treasured in our collection.

Wow, cool additions, Jo! They are all pretty, but that Darra just screams at me, I love everything about her :D

Congratulations on the new additions :gj:

Wow kennis is very beautiful congrats on the new Bps

Nice new additions Jo!

Geeez Jo...those are some great ball pythons :gj:

I like the name Fianna the bestest :nerd:

Congrats on the newest additions to your group! I'm sure you'll have them all nice and fat in no time at all. :D

AWW! *makes unintelligible baby talk to the cute baby snakes*

They are all so pretty Jo! I know you'll do well with the adult female, you just have that gift :)

Great additions! They all look great, and I wish you the best with the LTC girl!!

Wow! Great bunch of additions! They're all so pretty! Congrats!!


( :whisper: Now tell me, Jo...do you ever have trouble remembering all those lovely Celtic names??? :P Even if I had them written down, I wouldn't be able to remember them! LOL)

Jo, great additions to your home! I really like the looks of Kennis.

Thanks for the lovely comments everyone. We're really pleased with these females and of course spending the next while with the itchy "I want to handle but I can't" thing going on. It will be a bit longer with this group as they settle in (the babies are all CH's) and we make sure they are all eating properly for us.

Alice, I don't like to play favorites but there is just something about Kennis for me too hon. I could stare at her pattern for hours.

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( :whisper: Now tell me, Jo...do you ever have trouble remembering all those lovely Celtic names??? :P Even if I had them written down, I wouldn't be able to remember them! LOL)

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You know funny enough Judy, Mike and I don't have a lot of problem that way. We pick these names based on something about that unique snake, maybe it's color or temperment or it's history so the name means that particular snake and none other, so quite easy to remember. We're expanding a bit lately so some names are celtic, some like Morag are gaelic based.

My hardest part is getting some of the spelling down pat so I tend to keep a list of the newly named by the computer for a month or so until my fingers remember the right combination of letters (Muirne and Saoirse and Doireann were some of the hardest to type correctly for me for the longest time LOL). Their Degei record always includes what the name means or how it's pronounced as some celtic/gaelic sounds are very unlike english pronunciation.

Worst part for me is I have lists of names waiting for the right snake to take it on LOL. If I see a name in my research I jot it down with it's meaning, so heck....I need more snakes...I have wayyyyyyyy too many unused and very nice names! LOL

Wow i think kennis is a fox. Great additions to your collection, big fat breeders in no time... :peace: :yes:

Whoot! I love those little girls!!! :D Best of luck with the adult... I'm keeping my fingers crossed! :)

Thanks Laura. We had pretty good luck getting Saoirse going though she's always the slowest growing female adult here as well as the longest winter faster, no matter what we do but she's come along nicely considering her past. We're hoping for the same with Danu. She's not as thin as Saoirse was. Saoirse came to us at about 650 grams which for an adult female is horribly thin, Danu is 866 which isn't great but not as thin as Saoirse was back then.

Danu is currently settling in and we'll see how it goes on the first feeding attempt in the next week or two. As we did with Saoirse we'll be offering a small rat pup/large fuzzy rat which isn't much of a meal but seems to get their digestion kick started.

I love Edana. Such a beautiful name for such a beautiful snake. Congratulations on the new additions. Good luck on getting Danu to eat.

Awww, I'm sorry I wasn't on last night, I wasn't feeling well.


Danu and Darra are my favorites of the group!

Congratulations on these new additions!

Congradulations Jo, and your welcome! :) I can really tell you fell for this group of girls....and *nudges* your first girl is a CBB ;)

LOL sorry Andrew, adjusting my records as we speak (I'm a records keepin fiend!)

Fianna, Darra and Kennis are captive hatched. Andrew bred and produced darling little Edana. Thanks again Andrew, they are all gorgeous babies. :)

No problem Jo! Just sucks I can't keep them all :( I'm hoping that the big girl does well for you too! Have you noticed anything odd about her color when you put her next to a normal?....:P

Hmmmm I'll have to check that once she's out of QT, Andrew. :)

Very nice :)

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Hmmmm I'll have to check that once she's out of QT, Andrew. :)

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If you do, her color is a smoke/faded black....not a dark black like in other Pythons. Its almost a brown in color. It looks really cool, but you don't really notice it until you put her next to a normal. I noticed it when I pulled them out of the bag :P

great looking pick ups there lass, impressed with the names as well but then again Im probs biased being a Gael ! G/L with the big girl .

oh congrats to you jo!!! if anyone can get that mama eating again... it's you :hug:

Very nice lookin animals! Good luck withyour new additions! :rockon: