WOWSERS!!!!!! lots of corns huh??? breeding?!? and i to did the same... had a corn bout 5 years ago.. didn't read and didnt end up well.. *tear*
and i have an abbott's line okeetee. very vibrant. couple of its saddles run together.. whats up with that?
Yeah, I have a project planned that will take several generations of corns. I made the same mistake with my sort-of first corn, Imhotep, in 1999. A friend gave him or her to me & I made the mistake of thinking she gave me the right care instructions. She didn't. As you say, did not end well.
When I got Humphrey I went looking for information the next day, found a few care sheets on line & got the urgent issue (regulating the UTH) solved right away, then came here later.
I have a tendency to jump into hobbies in a big way. Mostly I land on my feet, and the experienced people here have kept me sorted out, and TRIED to slow down my snake expansion the first few months. Most of the population explosion just happened at the Daytona show. I doubled my collection that weekend. They are almost all 2010 hatchlings so they each live in a small tub and they are easy to care for. By the time they get big enough to need adult sized tubs I hope to have converted to racks, as right now I have tubs stacked on plastic shelving units. It works very well and is very modular, I can re-arrange the UTHs and the tubs for all the babies in 30 minutes (to totally unplug, rearrange and replug everything) but it looks ~messy~.
Your Abbott's has aberrant markings. It happens. Sometimes the saddles stretch out, or run together, or have odd shapes. Some people really like corns with weird saddles, some hate them. If you love the look of your snake it's all good!
Post some pictures of your new baby in a week or so after s/he has had a meal and a couple days to digest before facing a photo session!
