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Mithril - Pied Side Granite

Aozora

Blue Sky Reptiles
I did it again... I went to a Repticon and came away with a snake. I'd been through the entire area and I saw that the very last table had corn snakes. I have a few specific breeding programs, so I figured they wouldn't have anything I wanted. I checked the deli cups, and lo and behold, they had several different pied-sided babies for sale. The breeders pointed out this little one as an example of a well-diffused pied side granite, and I had to have her. She's so tiny--she weighs in at a whopping 6g. The breeders offered me a more robust snake, but her pied-side expression and color are far too nice.

I brought home the tiniest corn snake I've seen, named her Mithril, and crossed my fingers that she would eat. Well. She's scary, really scary i mean it u guyz. She tail rattles and she did a close-mouth strike when I was putting her in her new cage. She also happily tackled a tiny pinky mouse not once, but twice already. She'll be just fine.
 

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Wow, beautiful! My nerdy self loves the name. ;)

Yes, I thought it only appropriate for a snake with her coloration to be named Mithril given that it "shines like moonlit silver and was studded with white gems." (At least in the case of Bilbo's mail shirt, but since that that's its most famous reference I think I'm safe.)

She's gonna be a perfect match for my boy Targan. He's a known pied line, McDonald, and the breeder did not know what pied line she came from. He said, "The one that has the really dark reds." So I guess it will be an experiment when I breed her to see if the lines are compatible. I hope any future babies are as pretty as her!
 
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