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Onarian

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It is my great pleasure to introduce to you Atlas the Kastanie. I picked him up from Frank Schaub last week and tonight was the first chance I've had to take pictures. He's a giant and I wish I had a scale. He was hatched in July 2010 and feels like about 120-140g. He's a real sweetie and has settled in well to his temporary home (Frank was kind enough to rent a viv to me for the summer).

His ventral is white for the first 1/3, then over four or five inches the chestnut colour bleeds into the belly and the last 1/2 is the same colour as his top. Hope you enjoy the pictures!
 

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And one of his ventral

Not the best picture, but I couldn't get him to sit still once I'd picked him up.
 

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looks good mate, thats a real nice male. I know several which show less colour. great pick-up! :grin01:
 
Blutengel said:
Amazing sized yearling! He is so light, are you sure he ain't a hypo?
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I said the same thing to Frank about his size when I picked him up. Franks response was to laugh and say that American snakes were too small. I've got his feeding record, and he was fed about once a week with an appropriately sized mouse. *shrug* I'm hoping that he'll grow into a monster.

Certain that he isn't a hypo. He's from a mandarin motley breeding project so he's p/het amel and motley/stripe but there isn't any hypo in his lineage.
 
Than he is just a gorgeous, lightly colored Kastanie!

I do experience that Dutch hatchlings are larger then many breeders are used to. I thought mine were smaller then your Kastanie looking at the photo but actually 2 montsh ago I weighed my '10s and most of them were close to 100 and two already over, weighing 112 and 138 grams (from the same clutch). The latter are huge even for what I'm used to, but the mother gave me large hatchlings two years ago too.
 
Blutengel said:
Than he is just a gorgeous, lightly colored Kastanie!

I do experience that Dutch hatchlings are larger then many breeders are used to. I thought mine were smaller then your Kastanie looking at the photo but actually 2 montsh ago I weighed my '10s and most of them were close to 100 and two already over, weighing 112 and 138 grams (from the same clutch). The latter are huge even for what I'm used to, but the mother gave me large hatchlings two years ago too.
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Thank you! I'll keep working on taking pictures to share. I wish that I could have seen him during his colour transition phase, but c'est la vie.

I'll weigh him when I get back to the States and we can find out definitively. I'm about 2 meters tall and I have hands to match. He's as thick as my thumb and about 80cm long. It will be interesting seeing the size of what is available at the Terra-Bonn show tomorrow.
 
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