Fire and Sulfur

[MakiMaki]

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but someone was always in shed or something. Anyway, I have two fires and a sulfur and thought it would be interesting to see them next to one another. (I've owned them all long enough that they are well out of quarantine.) They look more similar in the photos than they do in person, though I think they are variants of the same morph. It's hard to make inferences from just three animals, but my sulfur has more of a glow than the fires. On the other hand, the color on the fires seems more...smeary...for lack of a better word. It will be fun to breed these together to see what happens, but with three females, I'll have to wait to produce a male from one first.

Sulfur Female:


Fire Female:


Fire (blackback) Female:


Fire (blackback) and Sulfur: (the other fire female didn't want anything to do with the group shots and ran away)


Sulfur, again:

[Bill Buchman]

Nice Fires and Sulfur Maki!!

[MarkieJ]

Thanks for the side-by-side comparison. I'm also curious to see a fire-sulfur cross...

[NorthernRegius]

Awesome group there!

[EmberBall]

Interesting thread Maki. How do the head patterns compare, Sulfur vs. Fire? She does seem to glow, and she is not a hatching anymore, so hopefully she continues to lighten up, I like her look!

Dave

[MakiMaki]

Interesting thread Maki. How do the head patterns compare, Sulfur vs. Fire? She does seem to glow, and she is not a hatching anymore, so hopefully she continues to lighten up, I like her look!

Dave

Thanks Dave! The head patterns are very similar. All three snakes have a light central spot on the top of the head. If I had to try to make a distinction, I'd say that the fires had overall lighter heads, though all seem to have lighter heads overall compared to the average normal.

The sulfur female weighed 855 grams today!