is there anything going on here?

[cecilbturtle]

Here is Lopi. My local Humane Society found her in an abandoned house. They contacted me and I took her in. She still has some fattening up to do even though she is almost up to 3000 grams in these pics.

So I SWORE i'd never post a normal bp and ask but I figured it couldnt hurt to see what you all thought. Its her tummy that makes me wonder. So....anything going on here?

[Cendalla]

She looks in good condition for having a rough go. I love that belly but I can't tell that there is anything to it. Good luck with her

[cecilbturtle]

thanks! the house was left empty, except for Lopi, for several months. i couldnt even guess how long she went without food or water. she had some stuck shed and eyecaps, she was hungry and really thirsty but she bounced back really fast.

[Alexandra V]

She looks good! I'd say normal, but I agree, her belly is really cool I haven't seen any morphs with bellies like that though.

[ravenx99]

That's how "morphs" get started... you find one with what looks like it might be a mutation and you attempt to reproduce it, if it reproduces, you've got a "morph".

I find it odd that people check their Catalog of Official Known Morphs and say, "that's just an odd-looking normal".

Where do we think the "accepted" morphs come from? Some breeder that recognizes that this odd-looking normal could be a mutation and plays around with breeding it to see what happens.

(Whether the buying public thinks it's a mutation worth paying money for is a different story, of course.)

[RyanT]

Completely normal, but if she's already that big and you put some weight on her, she'll make a great normal breeder eventually. Big clutches. Healthy, huge females are impressive whether they carry mutated genes or not.

[mues155]

im diggin her belly too!
She looks like she could be a great breeder!
A good possible dinker if you can do anything with that.

[heathers*bps]

Her belly is definitely cool! She would make an awesome dinker project

[devildog_dk]

2nd the dinker notion, with that belly and her pattern would be cool to try and see if there's something there.

[cecilbturtle]

any suggestions as to what i should breed her to?