Nanci
Alien Lover
I hatched two plasma stripes this year. The first was kinked. I was just devastated. A trusted friend took her. I was thrilled to hatch a second, because I owed a plasma stripe to someone, in trade for a hatchling they produced. I informed the person, and celebrated. It made up, a little, for the heartbreak of hatching the kinked baby. But then, a few days later, I thought I felt a kink. You know, right where the snake makes that first bend when they are crawling over your hand. Now hatchlings have a way of making their spinous processes protrude when they are climbing "hard," with muscles tense, and normally I'd have not thought a thing of it, but with the kinked clutchmate (damn you, lavender gene!!!) I freaked out. I felt the hatchling a bajillion times over the next few weeks. Sometimes I felt nothing, sometimes I felt a bump. The minute I felt it the first time I'd informed my friend. But I'd doubted it was real from the first, too. Kinks are always just there, or they are not. Babies are so fragile when they hatch, I was afraid to give her a REALLY good feel. But she's a big girl now, strong and tough, and I have felt her spine a bajillion times more, and there is nothing there. I'm ready to say she's perfect in every way. (My back-up plan was breed one more time, to try again, for my friend, send Hyacinth back to Carol, and keep Jola for myself, as a pet).
So here she is, the snake I've been holding my breath over!
The water lettuce pics are an accurate color, overcast, no flash, mid-day.
So here she is, the snake I've been holding my breath over!
The water lettuce pics are an accurate color, overcast, no flash, mid-day.
