Progression thread - Zulu the ???? het motley phet anery

When I saw that Jessica Kimble was releasing hold backs from her odd mystery pairing, I couldn't resist. I love a good mystery, and regardless of what she is I'm sure to have at least one compatible male for her.

So, meet Ursula, now renamed Zulu! She's currently in shed, so I'll have to wait to get good photos. A few quick cellphone snaps by the window will have to do for now. Hopefully we'll be able to get a nice photoshoot in this weekend.

Is she in the blue? Her pattern kind of reminds me of Cinnamon Red Hots xD' lovely addition!

cinnabunbun said:

Is she in the blue? Her pattern kind of reminds me of Cinnamon Red Hots xD' lovely addition!

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Yes, we'll get some better photos once she's shed. Thanks! We're excited to have her here.

She looks like a sweetheart! Very pretty. Congrats.

Pretty girl! Congrats

Thanks guys. She's a real hoot, very nosey and always looks like she's trying to determine if my hands are food or not. Silly girl. No shed yet, but she's in the clear phase.

Zulu passed the 70g mark and graduated to hopper links! It took her five separate tries to figure out how to walk her jaws over it. After the fourth try I was considering removing it to offer smaller links or a mouse but I looked away for a minute and back again and she was finally getting it down. They always want to drag it off the paper towel though!

I just realized I never shared these, though I've posted them all over facebook. Oops!

Beautiful snake and wonderful pictures. Awesome tongue shot among a bunch of awesome shots. Thanks so much. Made my morning!

Thanks! She's a little stinker, begging for more food already.

Wow, crystal clear pictures! She almost looks fake, the way you can see every reflection off of her eyes in perfect definition. Beautiful!

Zulu is extremely food-driven, almost a little odd considering her feeding problems early in life. Anything that comes close to or inside her cage is subject to intense inspection, and she greets me at the front whenever I open it. She's getting quite close to bumping up to small adults and will easily be up to breeding size in 2018. I'm hoping we'll have some answers as to what her genetic makeup is before then!

Snapped a few more pics of Zulu today after poking through a post on Facebook where someone else had a batch of mystery hypo snakes. Unfortunately the situation was different enough that I don't think my data will help them, but I'll keep posting my own updates while we wait for Jessica to unravel the mystery. Hoping her pairings next year are fruitful!

The last pic is more true to her colors. She is more reddish than these show.





In the post I mentioned previously, Don had suggested taking a photo of shed skin on white paper to see if melanin was present so I did that as well. Supposedly hypos are not supposed to have melanin in their sheds, but well...



Not sure what to make of that. I also took some more hypermacro shots of both the shed and Zulu again. Here are those results: http://imgur.com/a/gcOLp

Also as a reminder for folks who haven't seen Jessica's posts, here are some photos of her parents: http://imgur.com/a/rqnGr

She's so darn photogenic, so of course we got twice as many photos as Zulu than any of the others.







What a ham, this one... :laugh: