Photo #520
Het Piebald with a piece of Jasp-Agate (from the USA).
I'm certain there are people that can tell you (based on color/patterning) the exact mine this stone came from.
Breeders Note: It appears that most of my 20+ females that I used only 2 males on (1:1) are absorbing their follicles. I knew this was a definite possibility. Next year I'm going to mate these females at a 2:1 (male:female ratio). Unfortunately/(Fortunately?) I'm going to have an epic number of females breeding next season as my next wave reaches maturity...I'm going to need more incubators, more rodents, and more time/effort....*sigh*
Side Story: I was working on cleaning my snakes 2 days ago and I was staggering around from exhaustion (it is a lot of snakes+it has been in the high 80's). I accidentally bumped one of my enclosures and the latches shifted. I went in yesterday to feed off some rodents and my Dreamsicle ball python was gone-she pushed the door hard enough to offset the latches-and escaped! I searched all the usual places, but no luck. I stood in the center of my snake room and tried to think of anywhere I did not look. Ball pythons without fail will look for a dark cramped spot to cram their body into during the daylight hours. I knew the Dreamsicle is a fairly decent size now-so the number of tight spot options she had in the room were limited. There is a possibility that she left the room via the gap under the door, but, that seemed unlikely. Suddenly I recalled that I had moved my trash bin earlier and it seemed 'too heavy'. I lifted the trash bag out of the bin and yep, she was in there! It was odd though: she would have had to somehow scale up the vertical side of the barrel, go under the lip of the trash bag and then fall to the bottom of the barrel...an odd maneuver, but that is what she did.... I put her back in her enclosure and offered her a rodent before closing the door and she coiled it immediately...
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