Introducing: Sir Seamus! (And his progression thread!)

Today's the day! I finally got to meet and hold my little dude for the first time! My very first snake... He's so sweet, and such a great temperament so far.

I snapped a couple of photos of him in his take home box and when I was holding him, I wanted to get a couple pics in before we drive back home to the Panhandle tomorrow.. Plus he needs a few days to acclimate to his home. I've left him alone now, and I peek in on him here and there lol. He appears to be having a blast in his water dish! And he's just exploring his travel hotel, trying to find any ways out.

He's an absolutely gorgeous snake, and I am so happy to finally call him mine!
Please enjoy my couple of grainy photos lol when I get my big girl Olympus camera out, it's ON photo-wise... Also, he has a skull pattern on his head, and my boyfriend was like "He just got ten times more awesome!" :rofl:

**Nanci, if you're viewing, this is one of the four babies from AshelyNicole's first clutch, she said you were a huge help to her, and her babies are all beautiful!

And here's little man Seamus!

That's my baby! So glad he is going to have an awesome home. And yes a special thanks to everyone here who helped me get through my first breeding successfully.

Thanks for sharing photos!! It's kinda hard to tell in photos (I'm sure you probably said in another post also) but what morph is he?

What a little cutie!!! He's an amel motley, right??

Yes Nanci he is one of mine. I gave her one that is a great feeder, I am still habging on to the one that's been difficult.

The mom was a sunglow motley (het anery) and Dad was a snow motley so that makes this one amel motley. And I'm not sure but I think theres a chance he could be het for something but I am still learning genetics.

If dad was a snow, then this little guy would be 100% het anery.

So is anery defined as his pattern or lack of a specific color?? Does het mean that he would produce anery babies?? This whole morph system is totally confusing me lol

Genetics is so much to take in! Still in the learning process myself (and please more knowledgeable people correct me if I'm wrong!) but motley would be like his pattern. He's an amelanistic (amel) which means he's lacking all black pigmentation. Anerythristic (anery) means they are lacking all red pigmentation. Het means that anery is in his genes and he could/would produce anery babies. He's really pretty. In the photos he looked more brown to me. Was thinking more carmel or something. Middle photo shows more amel though, if I'd have looked closer.

Oh yes! The whole genetics thing is very confusing! I will now seek to confuse you further! LOL!
Anery is a lack of certain colors, namely red and some/most yellows. There are several different genes that have the Anery affect, like Charcoal. Anery A was the first one found and is most commonly called just Anery. Anery B refers to Charcoal, as it was the second one found. All the later ones were given trade names to distinguish them.

Almost all corn genes are recessives, which means that the snake must receive a copy of the gene from both of it's parents to visually express the gene, however if it receives a copy from just one of the parents, it will not show that gene but has the ability to pass it on to some of it's offspring, there's about a 50-50 chance that each baby would receive that gene from that parent. A snake like that would be said to be het, short for heterozygous, which means it is carrying two different genes at the same allele, or spot, on the chromosomes.
Homo, short for homozygous, means one that is carrying two identical genes at the same allele, which in the case of a recessive gene, means it would be visually showing that gene. A homo animal can only give that particular gene to its offspring, so any babies from a homo parent are going to be 100% het for whatever that gene is.
A het parent can give it's offspring either a normal gene or the mutation/morph gene on that allele but since you generally can't tell an animal is het for a recessive gene just by looking at it, you would not be able to tell which babies are het or not. That's why you will see snakes marked as 66%, 50% or 100% het for things, that just refers to the mathematical probability or the chances, that each baby in the clutch has of being het for something.

Wow that is insane!!
OK I'm starting to understand, I was confused on the pigment thing.

The pictures are bad, Gala, as soon as my new camera cord comes in from Amazon, I'll upload the awesome photos of him I took of him! He's orange-red and his spots are orangish-yellow.
He is super beautiful, I adore my little monkey.

Thank you both for the detailed explanations lol I'm going to get the hang of this I have a feeling my handsome would make some pretty babies!

Tavia is a ton of help. My ghost Spectra is from her and she's always answering all of my questions. My reply was so not as detailed lol. The photos are a lot harder to see on my phone also, much smaller screen, and my phone is what I usually use. Sounds beautiful though. Amels are pretty.

My very first snake was an amel. Fell in love with him. He was only with me for a very short period of time but I'll always have a soft spot for em lol. Would have loved to see how he grew. I have two stunning, very healthy babies now. And I absolutely adore them.

It's insanely ridiculous (or maybe it's not on here ) how much I adore him already, and I haven't gotten to handle him that much yet- I have taken some adorable photos, he's absolutely fun to photograph, he comes out at night and chills in different spots, he never burrows, so far, and he's always where I can see him when he's out...

He finally went to his warm spot, which relieved me, and he's just hanging out, looking at me lol I think he is the coolest thing.
I cannot wait for this camera cord to come in, I have a couple of really good photos of his coloring =)
I'm excited to see him grow!

Oh, totally understand!! I only had my very first corn (also my very first snake) for a week and I was so attached so fast, I'm sure I drove everyone crazy with my worrying about him. When he passed away I cried for two days. And I had gotten some grief from a couple of people (NOT on here) because "I didn't have him long enough for me to be that upset." The incredibly amazing people on here were so wonderful and made me feel so much better and were so supportive. Amazing people here. So I totally get the attachment, right away lol. Was the exact same way with Spec and Hades also. I absolutely adore them more then words can express.

Aaawww! And yours are so beautiful, too.

It's nice to be in a community where people encourage, support and help you, and this site definitely has all of those things.

I should start to say sir and miss to my snakes to.

Lol I just got him, he's my first one, and the name Seamus kept sticking with me- So I thought his title should be Sir haha... He's currently sitting on his stump staring at me, moving back and forth because tomorrow is feeding day- I know he's hungry lol

Ok- Little Seamus had his first meal with me today!
He took that little pinky and destroyed it lol

I have a really cool video of him eating, he doesn't care who's watching, he was workin' it!
And I have a couple of AWESOME photos of him- He ate like a champ!
As soon as I get my new USB cord for my camera, I will post them on here.

He did get a little agitated with me and struck once, but I didn't feel anything when taking him out of his cage.
I used chopsticks (brand new that I will never use lol) to feed him and he was like GIMME THAT!

The boyfriend thinks he's awesome, we both love him so much. Such a cool dude!

PHOTOS!

FINALLY!
After waiting a week, my new USB cord came in!
I have 5 of my favorite pictures of little man (hard to only choose 5!!) One is of me holding him, one after he ate (full, happy belly man)...

Seamus is getting along nicely, eating well, exploring his viv all the time- He's my little monkey, one of his favorite spots is hanging from the Hygrometer lol
His colors are so vivid and beautiful, and he's such a ham for the camera, he comes right up to it.

I hope you like the photos, I was so excited to get them on here!