Best unwanted snake ever bought.

[VexalUntil]

I posted some pics of this girl a while back. I got her from a breeder friend who didn't want to put the effort into raising her up to breed. She was kinda small compared to the more favored snakes born around the same time. She wasn't too eye catching, a pretty snake, but nothing that you would stop and stare at. I really wanted something from this blood line because of how the previous year's offspring turned out (attached).
Here she is a few months after I got her. Her colors are almost exactly like when I took her home. IIRC, she's darkened up from when she was a baby, and gained more red. This pic is a couple months old, but it still looks like her up until last week.


Here she is as of yesterday. She shed a couple days ago and then when I went to check on her yesterday I was completely blown away! She looks completely different!!



Best throw away snake ever purchased!!

[mpgt]

Very nice. That was a great find.

[danktat]

Looks like a late bloomer Nice find on that one. As a "throw away" I am sure you got it at a cut rate price tag too

[DannyBoy]

Looks like a pretty good deal.

[LdyDrgn]

Even as a baby I would have stopped and stared...hard not to see what a beauty she is!

[Cameron...G]

Wow looks like a pastel!

[VexalUntil]

Thanks guys. I'm so stoked now about her and my plans of consistently producing flaming red coral albinos. I probably could have talked the price down a bit, but I really wanted some of this bloodline and she was already two years old, 3'-4' long and eating fz rats.

Originally Posted by cameron15

Wow looks like a pastel!

Thank you for proving a point I've been trying to make for the past couple years. If you saw her as a baby I don't think you'd call her a pastel. (I really wish I had baby pics ) If you look at her mom you wouldn't call her a pastel either. Her dad though is pretty clean and pastelish, but definitely not from a pastel line.

Just curious, looking at the second pics only, would anyone confuse it with a Jungle boa?

[Cameron...G]

Just curious, looking at the second pics only, would anyone confuse it with a Jungle boa?

Maybe because the first two saddles behind the head.
Thats not enough to be considered a jungle though.


But a pastel doesn;t have to come from parents who are pastels.
Pastels are not really a morph but a really clean boa, and most of the time high pink colors.

	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).

[nicolenadia]

She is beautiful! I'm blown away also. I bet the breeder would kick himself if he saw her now.

[VexalUntil]

But from what I understand is that the True Pastels have to come from a Pastel line (ie - Ronne and a few others I can't remember). Everyone has now tried to cash in on the success of pastels by calling their nice clean colorful boas "pastels" just to increase their profits. It seems that every boa I see now a days is Pastel this and Pastel that... The pastel moniker is subjective from both the buyer's and seller's tastes. What do you consider a pastel? Lack of black spots? Intense color? Decreased amount of black pigment? Etc.... So I could have called this girl a pastel and no one would have thought twice about it just so I could get as much money for her or her babies as possible. That fact is what I was trying to point out.

And then about the Jungle comment. If she was presented next to a non-aberrant Jungle, which would you think is the Jungle?? Again it brings up the whole subjective argument. What do you consider a jungle? My whole gripe with Jungles is that everyone seems so elitist and can't seem to admit the possibility of other occurrences of the Jungle gene arising else where.