CrispySnakes

A nice batch of longis dropped yesterday from my Russo het anery girl, Sencha. I think this one might be dual-sired. She started the season with the super light anery Denton/Lincoln boy, Silver Arrow. Because I didn't see any action over a few weeks I also put the Denton hypermel anery boy Earl Gray in with them. I saw a lot of action with Earl Gray, so I ultimately pulled Silver Arrow and let EG take the season. I assumed the litter would be his buuut there are some aneries in here that I would 100% not expect from SEN x EG alone. Two specifically, that are super light and almost hypo looking. So now I'm not 100% certain.

These kids shed out super quick. Jungles & normals 100% het Jablonski super stripe. I'm extremely pleased by how much the Redrum cleaned things up. The quest for clean & colorful full stripes continues!

Prickly Pear - Kahl IMG arabesque keywest(?) (Boa imperator)

Another interesting litter dropped today! 9 live one still.

I grabbed the dam back in '21 to make Redrum Jablonski super stripe hets and it looks like jungle snuck in. I wasn't quite ready to introduce jungle to the SS project but at least it's easy to see! As expected the combination of an incomplete dominant gene that produces striping with a recessive stripe line produces hella stripes. The jungle het SS combo outputs full blown tri-striping typical of visual super stripes, with some minor differences (a wider center stripe, for one).

She's not an aggressive boa (those are incredibly rare, in my experience). She IS the most food motivated snake I have, and small things will trigger her into food mode very easily. I think her going after the boys in the past were almost all food triggers.

I bought her as a subadult back in 2014 from the originator of the line and he tends to feed heavy. She was a solid 6' at 3yrs. I don't feed as heavy, and I think maybe there were some unintended consequences there with feeding schedules that could've set something off in her brain.

This season I made sure she was VERY well fed going into the season, made sure to pull Maraschino before there was any food in the room, and was able to successfully avoid all her triggers. Mara was older, bigger, and more confident this year and was happy to give it a go, and she was content to let him.

I fed her through being gravid, but in the last month or so the babies drain them tremendously. The baby incident could've been that she felt she was too depleted. It could've been because she's an older girl and she's at a different point in her life than a younger snake. It could've been because I was there, and she associates me with food. I don't really know.

Amaretto dropped this morning, Maxx Pink x Maxx Pink Argentines. 9 live, 1 still, and about 8 slugs. This girl is 15yrs old and this is her first litter.

There are a few circumstances I want to mention that are interesting, mostly for my own records - but on the off-chance if anyone has experienced similar, I'm curious to know.

To start, she has tried to kill both males I have over the last two seasons. This season she decided she wasn't interested in murder, and bred instead. I observed follicle building, but no obvious ovulation and she did not go through a post-ov shed.

She did fine as a gravid girl, I made sure she was well fed (usual schedule, prey item a size down). I typically feed the first 2.5 months of being gravid and fast them the last month or so. She did not bother with nest building and did not cruise for a spot to drop, but I was happy to note she picked the cool side hide to post up in.

I will probably keep 1.1 back from all litters this season.