About Time I Joined!

[Dianne]

That's awesome, sounds like quite the haul! I hadn't heard of the dragonfly till now, but they look awesome. I'm a sucker for the lighter colored morphs. When we picked up our lesser and butter pair, the seller talked us into taking home a queen bee too because of that.

With your BEL though, that makes sense. He looks like one of the cleaner pairings either way, don't see a stripe or such from what I can tell. I wasn't originally planning to breed, but when I keep seeing all the cool combos I could come up with I had a hard time saying no.

This summer could best be described as “unsupervised child in a candy store”. lol

The pied was planned, actually went to a show searching for her. I don’t know how many laps around the show I made before picking my girl. There were several there, but what I really wanted was about a 50/50 mix of color and clean white. I think I got the nicest at that show - her white is really clean and the color mix is perfect for what I wanted. There were a few others, including some high white, but I fell in love with her. She was hatched July 2018.

During my laps, I kept coming back to a vendor I’d purchased my corns from years ago who also breeds ball morphs. He had a pair of lemonblasts that were hatched earlier in July. I just kept coming back to them every lap. I really have a thing for the thin line pattern morphs, but the color on these were just great. He was right next to the vendor with the pied, and as I was making my purchase he was talking with a couple about the lemonblasts and another cinnamon-ish (his words) ball he’d produced this year. The couple was leaning toward the cinnamon-ish ball as they weren’t planning on a pair. I asked to see the brighter of the pair of lemonblasts...and ended up taking her home, too.

With the BEL, I’d actually gone to the next show to pick up live feeders as I couldn’t get the lemonblast to feed. I’d tried both live and f/t, but it was 8/25 and she hadn’t eaten once since her 7/21 purchase. Of course I had to look around. There was one vendor with BEL’s that had 2 nice ones, but both had a faint hint of dorsal stripe and weren’t as bright white as I really wanted. I decided to make another lap or two, while thinking on it, and saw that one of the vendors was still putting out snakes. He put out a pair of BEL that were pure white. I asked to handle the male, and that was the end of the story...he had to come home. He’s a May/June 2018 hatchling.

And last for the year, and for quite a while, was the dragonfly. I actually hadn’t heard of them before I saw her on Craigslist earlier in the summer. I had contacted the seller, but the ad came down so I assumed she was sold. He posted her again right before Labor Day weekend. As soon as I saw her again, I contacted him, got the price he wanted which was fair, and agreed to the sale. She was even prettier in person than in the ad. Great color and really sweet disposition...and again with that thin line pattern I like so much.