Some Brongs!

[fkdmatt]

I suck at taking pics all together, but I really suck at taking pics of Bloods, anyway check them out!

T-negative Albino male

with flash


Some Chris Kopecky Specials! PE Stripe, and Smoke Matrix!




Matrix female


Malaysian Red Blood pair.

[Mike41793]

Boy did I read this title wrong! :p

Nice snakes though. Love some of their paint jobs.

[4theSNAKElady]

Me too!!! :p

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[JoeNapoli]

The water bowl in that last pic reminds me of the water bowl in this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEV9Yz1_dzk

When the brong was given more water volume/surface area it was finally able to shed and defecate... . .

Food for thought (if you can digest it).

[KMG]

I'm not sure why that vid got brought up here. My big blood has a water bowl that is way to small to soak in but sheds just fine. My young ones also shed fine without soaking. Actually all my snakes shed fine without soaking. Needing to soak to complete a shed is a sign of bad husbandry, not an issue of a small water bowl.

I could not take a snake out of that soup, wipe it, and then place it in its tub. It needed a good fresh water bath. That was disgusting.

Back on topic. Great looking snakes!

[fkdmatt]

Thanks for the comments.

To Joe, I've been keeping Bloods and Short Tails this way since 2004. I've seen your other post, and some of your YouTube videos, and see you have a lot of different opinions. I'm not sure how many Short Tails you keep, but I keep plenty, and my collection does fine. I didn't ask for husbandry advice in this thread. There's plenty of different ways to keep this species and be successful.

[aahmn]

Those bloods look pretty darn healthy to me. I also (especially with my bigger bloods) don't always have a water dish big enough for them to soak in and they defecate regularly just fine.

Beautiful beautiful snakes!!! I'm waiting for some color on my 2012 T- boy. What year is yours?

[Tim Mead]

The last matrix is off the hook cool and beautiful..

[JoeNapoli]

ADD's (Attention Deficit Disorder's) please skip this post.


Re: I'm not sure why that vid got brought up here. My big blood has a water bowl that is way to small to soak in but sheds just fine. My young ones also shed fine without soaking. Actually all my snakes shed fine without soaking. Needing to soak to complete a shed is a sign of bad husbandry, not an issue of a small water bowl.


That vid got brought up here because, as was stated, "The water bowl in that last pic reminds me of the water bowl in this vid". Normally time wouldn't be wasted commenting on photos because there's not much that can be discerned from them. Most are simply attempts to depict particular colors/patterns. Every now and then though photos include something other than a "paint job" (to use the term stated by a previous poster on this thread) and make commenting worthwhile. Had the photo in question been uploaded into a photo gallery I'd have never seen it and hence not commented.


Yes indeed "needing to soak to complete a shed is a sign of bad husbandry", and particularly low humidity. There are at least six ways to increase humidity but the safest way is to increase the surface area of available water. It's also the easiest way for the hobbyist, however for the collector &/or large scale breeder it's simply not feasible.


Re: The "snake in that soup". We all know how infrequently Bloods defecate. Actually, allow me to revise that - We all know how infrequently Bloods defecate IN CAPTIVITY, where their movement is relatively restricted, and the amount of water available to them is also relatively restricted. We don't need a PhD in physiology to realize that these restrictions are not conducive to alleviating constipation and, in fact, merely compound the problem. The sooner the fecal matter is expelled the better. How many days earlier, how many WEEKS earlier, could the excrement inside the intestine of that "snake in the soup" have been expelled? Was it just by coincidence that it was ready to defecate on the exact same day that it's owner decided to complete its shed? Think about it.


The creator of that vid wanted us to see "The less glamerous side of blood pythons" but we can see something else there, if we just look.

Re: I've seen your other post, and some of your YouTube videos, and see you have a lot of different opinions... There's plenty of different ways to keep this species and be successful.


Thank you for reading/watching my posts/vids. You are obviously one of the members of this sub-forum that have not gone to my profile and chose the "add to ignore list" option. (Which, I may add, is a viable alternative for any of you who don't like me &/or what I write. The style of my future posts will NOT change.) And thank you very VERY much for admitting that "There's plenty of different ways to keep this species and be successful." You are, so far, the ONLY large scale breeder to publicly admit this. We will be in Hamburg four weeks from today and still on the lookout for PR Bloods or Bloods with PR potential, preferably Normals but would pay morph prices for them. Over & out.

[KMG]

Many snakes dedicate right after a shed. I would expect that even the youngest keepers would know this.

The snake in the soup would not have been in that situation if the owner was correctly keeping it. It is not the less glamorous side of bloods. It was the results of poor husbandry. I have never had to pull a snake out of something that disgusting.

Why somebody even feels the need to post a video like that is strange. It was a good example of what not to do but not a good example of what should be expected with owning a blood. My blood is in no way restricted and dedicates often. Often meaning, just as regularly as the others in my collection.

As far as commenting on something other than the snakes in the pictures. It was not needed or asked for. The snakes are obviously very healthy and having stuck shed or how to make a nasty soup was just not needed here. I'm all for observations in a photo but this one was out there.

I know you love YouTube and think its very educational. I don't, and think many share my opinion. While YouTube does have a few good things it is largely a fun loving free for all to post whatever you want nonsense. Just because its online does not make any of it correct. Just like another user here thinks urban dictionary is a reliable dictionary to actually follow. Its not.

That video should have explained that his humidity was low and while trying to help his snake it dedicated making a very nasty environment. I would hate for a person thinking about getting a blood would see that video early in their research and get bad information that could turn them off of such a great species to work with.