• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Kokoro - VBB Progression Thread

The_Thunderer

The_Thunderer

New member
Decided that rather than resurrect a "mis-labeled" thread, I'd just make a new progression thread for Kokoro, my gorgeous Vietnamese Blue Beauty snake.

Here she is on June 25, 2008...
Kokoro1a.jpg


Kokoro5.jpg


Here she is on 8/16/2008
Kokoro10.jpg


Kokoro11.jpg


These are from this spring...
DSC00517.jpg


DSC00512.jpg


DSC00499.jpg


I can't remember when these were taken, but between early spring and now... BEFORE it started getting to be 100 degrees outside.
DSC02048.jpg


DSC02047.jpg


DSC02037.jpg


(More to come - including yesterday's pics!)
 
One of her side....
DSC02039.jpg


DSC02045.jpg


DSC02032.jpg


And finally yesterday's pics (09/18/09)
DSC02840.jpg


DSC02841.jpg


Sorry about our garbage bag in the picture! LOL. You can see that she's definitely longer than my 5'5" height
DSC02842.jpg


DSC02845.jpg


DSC02846.jpg


So sorry that yesterday's pics were so CRAPPY! She was QUITE testy, although she did not even strike at me. You could sense her nervousness. I think it simply was too hot outside for her. LOL.

Hope you've enjoyed the pics!
 
Gorgeous snake. Honestly, that is one of the most striking snakes I've seen, from the gorgeous color to the amazing pattern. Thanks for sharing!
 
Wow! She's beautiful, Fred! Thanks for showing us her progression. :) How old is she? I love how her blue is coming in.
 
Michael823 said:
Gorgeous snake. Honestly, that is one of the most striking snakes I've seen, from the gorgeous color to the amazing pattern. Thanks for sharing!
Click to expand...

whippet said:
definatly on my want lists!
Click to expand...

Thanks to you both! She certainly is full of character! While she's never struck at me (well, she did - so says my son, but I missed seeing it), she does make me nervous. She's got quite the maw now and I've seen what her teeth can do! LOL.
 
Fred... she is beautiful! Definitely on my want list. Its neat how the pattern and body of the VBB and TBS are so similar, yet how much of a contrast the coloration is. I would love to someday have one in the tank next to my TBS to show the two next to each other. How old is yours now? And how old was she when you got her? I'm definitely going to keep my eyes peeled for one.
 
Kewl! Glad you like her. I bought her a year ago June... and she was supposedly about a year old already. So she's about 2 years and 3 months old. She's right at 6' long... her 40 gallon breeder tank is 3 feet long on a long side and she had doubled herself right up against the glass just before I took her out for those pics. LOL.

I'm sorry I didn't get better pics of her, but it was kind of hot yesterday (around 100 degrees - I THOUGHT it was cooler) and she seemed REALLY antsy so I took a few (or had a few taken) and got her back into the house. :)
 
Suzy said:
Wow! She's beautiful, Fred! Thanks for showing us her progression. :) How old is she? I love how her blue is coming in.
Click to expand...
Sorry, Suzy! I didn't notice your response after Tara's.

She's about 2 years and 3 months old. Her "blue" actually has been with her the whole time. She shed the day before I took those last pics, so I like the way she's RETAINED a lot of blue. :)
 
She is so beautiful! Maybe it was just too hot for her outside. I couldn't stand your weather!
 
Sadly unless I can find a VBB for a great deal and is local, I'm going to hold off on getting one until after I get the Bush Viper and the Brazilian Rainbow Boa. After that I will definitely start actively shopping around for one, I'd prefer a yearling but I can be flexible with that. I'm not looking forward to buying another $370 tank, but I want to put a matching set up next to my TBS.

Katie is looking to get another Corn fairly soon, so the snake wall should get pretty interesting fairly soon. She wants one that will have a very heavy contrast to Scarlet. We looked at a Okee that was a violet color on kingsnake.com and we are going to some reptile expos this month and shop around.

I'd like to get our little collection for the most part "finished" by this up coming summer. So that will be 5 new snakes over the next 8 months or so. I'm excited to say the least.

PS where abouts did you get your VBB? Store, breeder, expo?
 
MalinoisK9 said:
Sadly unless I can find a VBB for a great deal and is local, I'm going to hold off on getting one until after I get the Bush Viper and the Brazilian Rainbow Boa. After that I will definitely start actively shopping around for one, I'd prefer a yearling but I can be flexible with that. I'm not looking forward to buying another $370 tank, but I want to put a matching set up next to my TBS.

Katie is looking to get another Corn fairly soon, so the snake wall should get pretty interesting fairly soon. She wants one that will have a very heavy contrast to Scarlet. We looked at a Okee that was a violet color on kingsnake.com and we are going to some reptile expos this month and shop around.

I'd like to get our little collection for the most part "finished" by this up coming summer. So that will be 5 new snakes over the next 8 months or so. I'm excited to say the least.

PS where abouts did you get your VBB? Store, breeder, expo?
Click to expand...

I bought her at a reptile specialty store called Pets Inc. They used to have a MUCH LARGER variety of animals, but have now tried to specialize in Fish, Reptiles and Tarantulas. Her mother was 13 feet long (saw her, but didn't measure her... just going by what the store owner said). Her brother (who I didn't buy) was a MEAN monster that attacked the glass when people walked by - OVER and OVER and OVER again. LOL.
 
Whooooaaaaa 13 feet?!? That would be by far the largest beauty I've ever even heard of! Wow!!! Hahaha her brother sounds like he wants to keep the reputation that the VBB has going! Thats kind of why I want a yearling so I can really check out it's temperament. With the one Hot moving in, I'd rather not have 2 snakes that are strictly for display.

Are they still doing VBB breedings at the place you got Kokaro from? I love her coloration. VERY beautiful!
 
Wow... I didn't realize that I had taken pics of Kokoro so recently as September 2009. LOL. For some reason, I thought it had been a longer period of time. But instead of "wasting" the pics, I decided to post some of what I took.

October 10, 2009.

DSC04001.jpg


DSC04005.jpg


DSC04008.jpg


DSC04009.jpg


DSC04016.jpg


DSC04021.jpg


DSC04023.jpg


DSC04032.jpg


DSC04035.jpg


DSC04038.jpg


Hope you enjoyed this update! Thanks for looking!
 
Very very interesting, Fred. A beautiful snake. Great shots to see all of the pattern the whole length.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top