Lily is a plasma- lavender bloodred. She was bred by Rich Z, and offered for sale the very first year he put up hatchling photos!!! (Before then, you just got what he gave you.) This coincided with a half price sale, which put her (barely) into my price range. I pored over the photos with then moderator and only owner of a plasma outside Rich Z (that we knew), Roy Munson, (author of The Munson Plan). I had this ideal snake I wanted- the most purple/least patterned snake possible. We settled on Lily. She's a steely blue/grey now, but as a young girl was a beautiful lavender.
Lily was shipped the week after Thanksgiving, and I never got notice from Rich (spam folder, and why I am crazy about confirming shipping plans, now) and I got home from work and saw the white and red box out at my gate, just feet from a super-busy county road- the main conduit into Gainesville. I had such a heart attack, I grabbed up the box, ran into the house, and left my keys in the door all night!
Lily was my first very expensive snake. When she was old enough, I was going to use her to make the first in the US lavender rosy bloods (lavender Kastanies). But- her clutch was infertile. The following year, the clutch was infertile. Fred, the male, got blamed, because I'd brought in a second plasma female, who also laid a clutch of slugs. Well, actually one egg hatched, producing Krinkle, causing me to speculate that Fred carried a hidden lavender gene, but that's another story, and in the end, it was deduced that Penelope had retained sperm from the previous breeding season.
So Lily just sat around and ate mice, and a couple years later, went on loan to be bred to a Tessera Bloodred heterozygous lavender and many other things. And laid an infertile clutch. At this point, I decided she was most likely infertile (which, oddly, was what my vet suggested, back when she failed to become gravid by Fred) and since as we sadly all find out eventually, there is only so much room, I reluctantly decided to rehome her if the perfect person came along. And she did!! It's so hard to let go of snakes that you've had for years- and such a relief to see them thriving in their new homes.
