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Kookaburra and Bandicoot

toyah

toyah

Snakes in designer genes
I cannot believe how much these two have grown in the couple of months we've had them, and how much their colours have changed. Plus - temperamentally, the aggressive seeming babies I got out of the box have disappeared, and been replaced by calm, easy to handle, and just plain pleasant juveniles.

This is Kookaburra, the female. She is darker, has much heavier banding and deeper orange on the head/belly.
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And Bandicoot, who has quite light markings with an almost green tinge to the pale pigment. He's my favourite ... I think eventually I will be looking for a female that matches him.
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LOVE! I sooo want one! I wish I had never gotten this albino bp and had gotten a woma instead! Trade that "ugly" dark female to me? ha!
 
I was JUST thinking about these snakes yesterday! I was thinking about what I would name my Kenyan Sand Boas (that I DONT own,lol) and I kept thinking how awesome the names were for these two snakes. I love how you picked names from Australia, so I was checking out names from Kenya. They are absolutely beautiful snakes! Thanks for the pics!
 
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LOVE! I sooo want one! I wish I had never gotten this albino bp and had gotten a woma instead! Trade that "ugly" dark female to me? ha!
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Hey I never called her ugly ... LOL.

Don't get me wrong, I love the corn snakes above everything else, but as far as pythons go (boas don't get a look-in), if I could only have one species, it would be these guys ... much as I love my royals, they don't rate at all beside womas. True, they can be a tad on the expensive side, but they're worth every penny, they're just such nice animals.

One problem is that they have been quite rare in the past, and so people have just randomly bred any two examples together that they can get their hands on, so while there is some variation, it's not really very vivid. But while we're never going to get the localities of woma that are available in Australia, some people are now concentrating on breeding particular looks and phases.

I think I need some nice selectively bred womas, and obviously the other aspidites ... the black headed python. If they're anything like their woma cousins then I know I'll love them too :)
 
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