hypnoctopus
Olivia Barron
She's looking great! Her head color is really starting to fill in.
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Low diffusion Fire progression.
- Thread starter albertagirl
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albertagirl
Sharan
Thank you! Yes it is, she has almost no white left other than her belly. She's also actually just a little darker/redder than these pictures look, the flash seems to really bring out the orange, but without it the color quality is even worse. What I wouldn't give for a sunny day!! 
albertagirl
Sharan
Update: Raven has now entered me into the bite club... well Relic did it first, but that was a feeding error. This was just a straight up "I've decided that everything is food all the time" strike. She used to come out and say hello when I was in the room, now she comes out and tracks my every movement as if I am a giant mouse. She has also taken to rattling her tail at me, but only while or immediately after eating. Little turkey. Other than that she is still a sweetheart, and just had another shed this week, so more pictures are coming. She sheds twice as often as the others... not sure if that's normal, but she seems perfectly healthy otherwise.
albertagirl
Sharan
As promised, pictures of the latest shed. Two with flash, two without. She's about 40 grams now.
albertagirl
Sharan
Thank you Zeina!
albertagirl
Sharan
Raven has had a few more sheds. Not as much change from one to the next anymore, but I think she's gained a little more color since I last posted, so here is an update. My photographer friend should be taking some nicer ones soon, but I got impatient :laugh: so these are cell phone pics taken out in the sun. No fancy backgrounds. Sorry!
Jessicat
All Pied Everything
Awesome!! By the time she reaches adult hood I think she'll be fairly bright and a somewhat solid color. Looks like she may be more orange than red, but I think she'll "blend" more and more as she grows.
I had a pair of 1.1 Diffuseds that didn't display a lot of diffusion when they were hatched out. As they grew though their color filled in a lot. The female turned into a stunning Bloodred with color to match. The male was more orange but his sides did blend together as he aged.
I had a pair of 1.1 Diffuseds that didn't display a lot of diffusion when they were hatched out. As they grew though their color filled in a lot. The female turned into a stunning Bloodred with color to match. The male was more orange but his sides did blend together as he aged.
albertagirl
Sharan
That's good news! She does look very orange in bright light, I don't know if it's possible but it's almost like her saddles are fading while the background color is intensifying. I wonder if they'll meet in the middle somewhere? Or maybe it just looks like that.
Thanks Nanci. I don't think she has any white left at all, except a tiny bit down the middle of her belly.
albertagirl
Sharan
Raven has turned into a shark. Or a king snake I guess I should say. Everything that goes into her cage is considered food and at risk of being tasted. She is my only corn who actually bites. Once she's out she's a little nervous, and never really seems to calm down as much as the others, but never bites outside of the cage. She is now approaching 2 years old, is 3'3" (if I remember correctly) and just under 250 grams. Her color does seem to still be developing, but much more slowly now.
Here are some pictures from January that my friend took with a proper camera:
Here are some pictures from January that my friend took with a proper camera:
albertagirl
Sharan
Here are a couple of pictures I took in April with my cell phone. Does she look like a good weight to you guys? I'm not so good at telling if she's maybe gotten a little chunky. Haha
hypnoctopus
Olivia Barron
She looks absolutely beautiful. She doesn't look chunky to me.
albertagirl
Sharan
albertagirl
Sharan
Raven shed a few days ago, but we just haven't had any sun until today. I took her outside for a little update photo shoot, and I think her color has gotten more intense even since January, so I thought I'd update her thread. Her sides have pretty much diffused out, you can hardly see any side pattern anymore, and her belly is almost solid orange now especially towards the tail. I realized I didn't get any that were in focus of the underside of her neck, where we weren't sure if we saw belly checkers, so I'll need to get some of those still. And while she is not quite solid colored, her saddles and ground color are close enough that I am quite happy with how she has turned out. So if she gets more diffused/solid colored, that's awesome. If she doesn't, I'm still very pleased.
Picture 1 shows her overall color saturation.
Picture 2 shows her belly.
Picture 3 shows her head.
Pictures 4 and 5 are an attempt to show how faint her side pattern is. It's difficult with shiny snakes in the sunlight, so the last one is in the shade, sort of.
Picture 1 shows her overall color saturation.
Picture 2 shows her belly.
Picture 3 shows her head.
Pictures 4 and 5 are an attempt to show how faint her side pattern is. It's difficult with shiny snakes in the sunlight, so the last one is in the shade, sort of.
albertagirl
Sharan
A few more... just because!
albertagirl
Sharan
Oh ya, and her shed looked like it had hemipenes, so she might be a boy, as it turns out. Not that it makes any difference to me, but interesting note.
albertagirl
Sharan
Lol! Well that's certainly news. Are you sure they're hemipenes and not sperm plugs? I've been following this progression thread for a while cause I love the color change in fires thanks for the many pictures
I talked to her breeder at the show this weekend, and she had kept one of Raven's siblings. Seems she turned out really nicely too. Definitely a fun one to watch developing.
Whether they are hemipenes or sperm plugs it would still indicate a male, however, there is a possibility they could be scent glands which females do have. From all the research I've done on this (which isn't a ton) and everyone's responses to my recent thread about it (search "scabs on shed") it sounds like a pretty good chance they're hemipenes though. And yet I can't quite seem to stop calling her a "she". LOL. Force of habit I guess.
axis1
Fuhgeddaboudit!!!!
What a gorgeous snake!
It's amazing how the colors have deepened since your snake was a hatchling. I have one that had a dark, coffee-bean-like color when it hatched and now resembles his dad and after 10-11 months has an orange-reddish-brown type of color. Not sure what you might call it.
Very cool thread!
It's amazing how the colors have deepened since your snake was a hatchling. I have one that had a dark, coffee-bean-like color when it hatched and now resembles his dad and after 10-11 months has an orange-reddish-brown type of color. Not sure what you might call it.
Very cool thread!