Crona, Anery Motley

[Kam]

Very handsome fella you have there!

[CloudtheBoa]

Crona finally had his first shed earlier this month! According to SerpWidgets, he's 2' long and he was 105 grams last I weighed him. He's so much smaller than Nymeria was at this age (almost 7 months), but seems about the same as Cloud's growth, we'll see how long he is in another 5-6 months or so, Cloud was 2'7" after I had him a year.

[dkatz4]

looking good! He's calmed down, i assume? (your hands look distinctively un-torn up)

[CloudtheBoa]

Yup, I haven't been bitten in a long time! He does still give me the occasional huff and has struck at the camera, but I'm not getting bitten. Lol Not that he's bitten me all that much, but it seems we've gotten past that now. Just gotta keep up with handling now.


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[CloudtheBoa]

Last time I weighed Crona, he was 126 grams after a poop, and I've decided to extend his feedings from every 10 days to every 12-14 days. He's growing quite nicely so I'm not so worried about feeding him more often any more. He certainly won't hit Nymeria's size at a year (3' and 280-300 grams), but he should at least be Cloud's yearling size (2.5' unknown weight).

I have the entire weekend off so maybe I'll get around to getting pictures of everyone, I've been working a bunch of days in a row because I had asked for 3 days off this weekend to go to the Atlanta show so I haven't had much time for photography. Unfortunately we have to stay home, so I'll just try to use it for snake handling. lol

[CloudtheBoa]

Here are some recent shots of Crona! He looks to have grown since the last time I posted pictures.










I'm hoping the sheen I'm seeing on him tonight is predicting a shed cycle to come...The camera doesn't really pick up on it too well but I've noticed a snake's iridescence changes just slightly right before they start to darken and then go blue. Even my sunglow girl Nymeria does it, although her iridescence is mostly pink and purple hues.

[CloudtheBoa]

Well it's almost a month later and no shed, who would have known a motley would throw me through a loop as much as an albino...his light/dark phases are just so different.


I put a photo of him up on SerpWidgets and he's grown another 2"-3" so there should be a shed soon I would assume...





Finally got a shot of his tail! It's black except for the tip.














Then he grabbed my hair tie and would not let go.

[CloudtheBoa]

Still no shed, last weight was 130 something but that was over a month ago, last weight record was right around 27", taken last month.

I went around and photographed almost everyone tonight, so I could have recent photos. lol Of course, the 3 quarantines came last, and the only one I touched was Crona because I wanted to see if he was going into shed. It's hard to tell but I don't think so. Crona is almost as hard to tell an upcoming shed as an albino...his dark and light phases are just so extreme and his belly is a really light gray so any pinkish hues are hard to see. His dark phases also vary in intensity.


He's in a dark phase in all these photos.





The best photo of his chin to date.








I wish I had the flash on, but at least I still captured this silly moment.











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[erebus45]

WOW!!! your motley has a very very clean pattern B-E-A-UTIFUL!!! can a motley's pattern clean up on its own or will it stay the same im hoping mine cleans up like yours is!!

EDIT: what does the anery gene contribute to the pattern?

[CloudtheBoa]

WOW!!! your motley has a very very clean pattern B-E-A-UTIFUL!!! can a motley's pattern clean up on its own or will it stay the same im hoping mine cleans up like yours is!!

As far as I know, no, regular motleys don't clean up, and motley combos will act a lot different than a single gene motley will. Some snakes' patterns do become messier though. Howl and Dominika both have more spotting than they did when they were young. They aren't motleys though.

Your motley is a hypo motley which explains the messiness of the pattern. That's the hypo influence, so it's possible some of the spotting will go away since hypos change a lot with age, but you'll just have to wait and see.


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