Quote Originally Posted by TanyaL View Post
Thanks for the reply!

I agree, I think she could use a few extra groceries. Do you think she is way off or in the neighborhood of where she should be?

Like I said...I've not had any success getting her to take two mice. What is the suggested way of offering two? How long should I wait to offer the second? Maybe I wasn't waiting long enough before offering the second, or waiting too long.

so would you consider her just a normal normal? Really doesn't matter to me, I"m just asking out of curiosity and because of what others have said about other bp photos. In fact, the guy I got her from who was suppose to be a bp breeder in the past said that he would without a doubt breed her because of her 'unusual' pattern. I don't think it's all that unusual. I perfer her pattern over most I've seen in different shops but still not that unusual.
I offer the second one after they down the first one. You want to catch her while she is still in hunt mode. If she heads into her hide immediately following and parks her butt in the doorway in the classic "do not disturb", then chances are she will not take the second.

But once she takes the first... if she is still flicking and hovering around then it is worth offering the second one.

I have some that go out of hunt mode really fast, others that can stay in it indefinitely (cochons!).

She does have a reduced pattern, but not enough that I would say she is a reduced pattern - as that tends to imply that is is genetic. She has enough dots that it is likely purely random and abherrant. But I do love the broken head stripe... often the head and neck pattern are places where you will see genetic markers.

But that being said... any het recessive snake looks like a normal... only way to know for sure is to breed it out and see. But if you are going to breed her... you may invest alot of time and energy to find out that her traits are not genetic. When you could simply pick up a nice dom or codom male and produce morphs right away.

I would suggest... if you want to enhance her reduced pattern in her offspring... pick up a male normal that is similar and selectively breed. You may find out that you do hatch out a lovely clutch of reduced patterns.

And if you do not... there is nothing normal about normals. They are stunning and have amazing variance.

Bruce