Snakes and Stones

[Bogertophis]

Lord Sorril, you live WAY too exciting a life. I'm so glad you got to that hot mess in time, & nothing worse happened.

As for the rattlesnakes, I can't imagine preserving any of my pets for sale as a "snake in a jar"- Normally I bury my pets, though I do have the bony remains of one in particular in a classic blue speckle jar (as an informal urn) that says "Kiss my grits". He's not for sale either...

[Homebody]

How could I lose?? People are just lining about to buy Black Widow spiders!...
I mentioned it to my gf and she said that most people want the females only...so that cuts your projected profits right in half...

I knew that I should have put a winking emoji, or some such, after my comment to show that I meant it in jest. Hard to imagine anyone getting rich off spiders. Now, cockroaches! That's totally different. There's gold in them there roaches.

[Bogertophis]

I knew that I should have put a winking emoji, or some such, after my comment to show that I meant it in jest. Hard to imagine anyone getting rich off spiders. Now, cockroaches! That's totally different. There's gold in them there roaches.

Just make sure you specify what kind of roaches you're selling...

[Lord Sorril]

Lord Sorril, you live WAY too exciting a life. I'm so glad you got to that hot mess in time, & nothing worse happened.

As for the rattlesnakes, I can't imagine preserving any of my pets for sale as a "snake in a jar"- Normally I bury my pets, though I do have the bony remains of one in particular in a classic blue speckle jar (as an informal urn) that says "Kiss my grits". He's not for sale either...

Exciting a life? Sounds like the Chinese Curse 'May you live in interesting times'.

I know some people are into taxidermy--totally not my 'thing'. I've necropsied some of my reptile pets in the past-and I think if I preserved one in a jar...I would probably get nauseous every time I looked at it... That said: When I was in Pre-Med classes in university-I did study a lot of 'remains'. It helps a lot when you don't know anything about the life of the specimen and then you can just view it as an intriguing structure instead of a unique individual.

I knew that I should have put a winking emoji, or some such, after my comment to show that I meant it in jest. Hard to imagine anyone getting rich off spiders. Now, cockroaches! That's totally different. There's gold in them there roaches.

Lol, I know you were joking. If I was going to breed insects it would be Blue Death Feigning Beetles. People have learned how to be breed them captively (eggs have to be incubated), but, all the vendors I see are still selling wild caught at the expos... I was also talking to vendors about the Red-Eyed Katydids. Those sound like a lot of fun. Not sure if anyone has captive bred them yet-sounds like something that would be up my alley (if I had the time...which I don't).

[Lord Sorril]

So, while I wait around for my eggs to hatch for 2024...I get a chance to take a closer look at my 2023 holdbacks.
I noticed that two of my clown ball pythons look very different from each other (to my eyes). Both of them are 50% Possible Het for Lavender Albino.
A bit of Het Lavender Albino interaction on the one on the left perhaps?...Only time will tell.

[Homebody]

Oooooooo... If I ever find myself in the market for a ball python, I'm going to give you a call.

[Lord Sorril]

Oooooooo... If I ever find myself in the market for a ball python, I'm going to give you a call.

Lol, I keep a low profile irl.

First Snakes and Stones photo of 2024!
Photo #351

Ball python is 66% Het for Clown+Lavender Albino.
You are going to see lots of Hets this year.
I have double and triple recessive projects in the works.

The stone is a quartzy variant I took out of the Connecticut River.
People in the rock forums make fun of me for collecting this material as it is very common in different parts of the USA.
Where I live there are not very many good stones to tumble and this material is rare in my area...so I will take what I can get (for free).

[Bogertophis]

Re the stone: Yeah, but so what? It's pretty! (The BP is pretty too- nice shine!)

[Lord Sorril]

Re the stone: Yeah, but so what? It's pretty! (The BP is pretty too- nice shine!)

Yeah, I am not really concerned about the 'class' of my stones. If they look nice: then whatever. $1/lb vs. $100/lb...so what...and yes it is a tough job getting a good polish on a ball python!

In other news: My clutch #2 has started to hatch.
Same breeding config as my clutch #1 (Het Clown/Pos. Het Lav Albino x Het Clown/Pos. Het Lav Albino).
Clutch #2 uses the same male involved in Clutch#1-so we know that the male is already a proven 100% Het for both Clown and Lavender Albino.
I took this photo below and I thought this hatchling clown looks more 'orangey' than normal (going to note this in my records-for future reference).


Then I looked closer at the photo:

I see Lavender Albino in that egg!
This means that this female I used in this mating is now also a proven 100% Het for Lavender Albino.
This may be droll information for some people...but, exciting for me!

[Bogertophis]

Hey, we're all happy for you!