Miami Mot (Striped) Zora: Shed and Fed!!

I got home tonight to find that little Zora had finally shed! I've only seen her in blue. However, I wanted to feed her her first meal in her new home, so there was no post-shed photo shoot...

Zora ate immediately and didn't even have to be covered up! I can't wait to see this little beauty in daylight!! Now I will be able to rest easy at Daytona, knowing my new baby is all settled in. Thanks for looking!!

She is going to be incredible when she grows up. She is so stunning now! Congrats Nanci!

What a good girl! (And so pretty too!)

Thank you PJ! I think she'll be really showing her true colors in about six months. She's very silver, but I can't capture it on film (well, you know) yet. I'm so happy she just ate without any trouble! Carol says her whole clutch are good eaters. I can't wait for news of her siblings; at least two are going to regular posters here!!

She really makes me think about neural crest migration- with those couple scales that have colors off by just one row. She looks like she has a zipper going down her spine!

Nanci said:

Thank you PJ! I think she'll be really showing her true colors in about six months. She's very silver, but I can't capture it on film (well, you know) yet. I'm so happy she just ate without any trouble! Carol says her whole clutch are good eaters. I can't wait for news of her siblings; at least two are going to regular posters here!!

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Congrats Nanci! She is gorgeous.

Although I am not a regular poster I am definitely a regular lurker... :eek1:

I am proud to say that I have 2 coming to me after Daytona... I can post the pics Carol sent if the curiousity is killing you...

Matt.

That would be cool!!!

Cool...

Ok the first is the male - he's a real looker.

Second is the female - you obviously got the "pick" female Nanci but this girl is nothing to turn away at...I really like her color and paired properly she should produce HOT babies.

Thanks for looking.

Matt.

Go Zora! She is gorgeous!

Those are gorgeous, Matt! Please post updates on them as they grow!! You know what, who knows what any of the kids in this clutch will eventually produce. Daddy was barely striped at all! That's the fun of this...selectively-bred group. You never know what you're going to get! They are all different and all beautiful. A few more clutchmates have yet to make an appearance!! I just love ALL Miamis.

Thanks Nanci.

I agree that the amount of variation in the offspring will vary when these guys are bred. Having said that, when linebreeding we can at least say that they will be awesome in one way or another. That's what makes the "Huddleston" Miami's so awesome.

I can't wait to see the others...

BTW, I agree, MIAMIS rule!

Doesn't Zora look bright compared to Matt's kids' baby pics?? Such a change with just one shed! It's so exciting!!

Great looking snake. I really like miamis as well

are those normal stripes?

They are Miamis, which is a selectively-bred normal in which the breeder aims for snakes with a light silvery background and red saddles. Then, they have the motley pattern which removes quite a bit of the black pigmentation, as well as the belly checks. If you look at this thread, http://tinyurl.com/myyl7v you can see Zora's father, who is a Miami motley, and mother, who is a striped-pattern Miami motley. The father is a typical (but outstanding) Miami motley, and you can see how his black pigmentation is virtually gone, with the effect that his red saddles are now a brilliant orange. The mother is genetically a motley (Miami) but her motley pattern formed (in the egg) with the "mots" lengthened until they touched, causing a pattern resembling a stipe. If you look at Matt's babies, you can see they have areas of mots that have formed stripes. Zora was just "lucky," and her motley pattern formed as one continuous stripe. She is genetically a motley, does not have genes for stripe, but she is phenotypically a stripe. Appears visually to be a stripe. The nomenclature for the partially-striped motley pattern is still not standardized, and to confuse things, there are motley-patterned animals that carry one stripe gene (you need both stripe genes, one from each parent, to be a genetic stripe). In the Cornsnake Morph Guide, Zora's pattern is referred to as "pinstripe" motley. I like that, but would anyone know what I was talking about? Others call that look "striped motley" "motley stripe" or "motley/stripe." Confusing, isn't it? I know there is at least one big thread here discussing proper terminology.