Heck if I know for sure - she "seems" brighter to me, but she's such a dark snake, it's hard for me to tell.

I don't know if I'm wishing it or not, but it made for a good reason to take some pictures of her.

This is Echo, who will hopefully have a possible het clown clutch for me this year!

Here's a few pictures of her about a month ago:




And here she is tonight










She's definitely bigger than she was when I started breeding her, but I've not seen an ovulation (unless she did it while I was in NC the week before Christmas, as she has shed since then).

I don't believe it to be her pre-lay shed, because I haven't really seen any bowl wrapping, cool laying (consistently anyway), lumping, etc. But I am watching her carefully now, as I think that her next shed will likely be her pre-lay shed. She's locked with Oliver 8 times.