Quote Originally Posted by Loft Lizard View Post
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!).
Maybe I waited too long before offering the second one. I'll have to think about what I'm going to do, rather it be mice or rats. When I do, I'll plan to stick with it.


Quote Originally Posted by Loft Lizard View Post
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
I have no intentions of breeding. I don't buy my animals to breed them. I figure if I want another, I'll buy or adopt another one. Breeding is just not for me. I couldn't be bothered.

I absolutely love her. It doesn't matter if she is reduced, banded, het for anything, or whatever! It really doesn't matter to me. She is still going to be cared for as if she was worth $20,000!