Sweet! I'm glad that she's doing well for you and that she finally shed! Her siblings are catching up. I need to snap some photos of them.
I guess I didn't really think about it before, but she kind of takes after her dad in a Stripe form. She's got the light head and the orangey -not-quite-Butter- coloration about her that Copperhead has.
I think that it has a lot to do with the camera you're using as well. Mango didn't look anything even remotly like a Butter in any of the photos I took of her, and I don't think she could have changed
that much in one shed.
I think Amels het for Caramel tend to be on the more orange side. Fig is in shed right now and looking kinda dull, or I'd take a picture of her to compare. Man I should have taken at least one picture of the two of them together before Mango got shipped off to you!! Ah well..
I just can't get over how odd yet cool it is to see pictures of a snake that hatched out here for me, and know that it is halfway across the country with you!!
This is the first batch of snakes that
1) I made and someone else owns, and
2) are owned by someone in a different part of the country!
I think I'm going to have to get FedEx certified! By the way, huge shout out to Jen of Ghost House Corns for making this possible. Without your help these guys would still be living above and below their siblings on my fireplace.
Can't wait to see how my babies progress for you.
Thanks Tom! Are you taking one of the Copperhead clones? I have her brother, Cantaloupe, as well and need to post some pix of him. Pineapple was with me too but sadly she passed away this week.
I'm sorry to hear that! Sorry I haven't even looked at my PMs yet, I have a bad habit of looking around here first and then reading PMs later. When you told me that Pineapple had kinked herself during feeding I had a bad feeling that she was not going to make it. I know you did everything in your power to give her a fighting chance! I'm glad that in the end she was with someone who really cared for her and was willing to try to get her going. I'm a strong believer that some snakes just aren't meant to make it, and that they shouldn't be fussed with too much. There are so many corn snakes that DO need good homes, why stress yourself out and the snake (who's probably not living a very good quality of life anyway if it's being force fed) unnecessarily? At the same time I find it admirable that you were willing to do whatever it took for Pineapple. You are a kind hearted person.
After the expo I'll see what's left and perhaps we can figure something out. I guess I should look into getting FedEx certified now so that when/if the time comes I will be prepared. In the mean time I'm glad that the other two are doing well for you! In the end it turned out that Pineapple was the
only baby who held out and never ate. Even though some of them were slow starters I think that's a pretty decent success rate!
