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Which would you chose?

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Jessica29

Crazy Alaskan
I will be buying one of these females next week. They are supposedly both 2009 female lavenders het hypo. Only reason I say supposedly is because they both weigh only 175grams. They said they feed them one medium mouse every ten days, so I'll be bumping up the feeding. I think in leaning towards the lighter one. Opinions?

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That's what I said? I told them I have 2011's that are over 200grams. Maybe their scale is off or they have the year wrong? I'm not sure.
 
I'd also go for the lighter one and I'd be concerned about long term health issues. If they couldn't feed enough, what else were they not providing or caring for?
 
I'd go with the darker one.... more likely to actually *be* female. In lavenders the really light ones are often males.
 
I wouldn't go with either one. For me, their health would be a concern. I'm not sure what factors are going into your decision, but if one of them is their price, maybe there is a reason they are priced low (if they are)? I know all snakes don't grow at the same rate, but I would expect a healthy 2009 to *at least* be 300grams by now.

Jarrett
 
I'm voting for the lighter one as well. I like paler lavenders unless they have the peach background and not the gray then dark, vibrant and bright is the way to go : ).
 
I'm trying to get more info on them right now. As for the red fleck, I'm not sure, I hadn't noticed it before now. They don't look unhealthy in the pics, so unless he bred them himself, I'm thinking they may have the year wrong.
 
Are they more affordable when you get more then one? I like the elongated 'trying to be a stripe' pattern on the neck of the lighter one. I have & have had both light and dark lavenders of the female variety, is there a possibility the lighter one is het amel? Will they be pets? If pets & future breeders, then what the long term goal are a consideration. Don't worry about a red fleck, a lot of simple recessive morphs have a fleck. I slow grow some of our snakes. No sense having them pounding down food before their mates from unrelated bloodlines get mature sometimes.
 
Yeh he said the previous owner had them all on a maintenance diet. As far as I know they are both only het hypo. He's delivering them to me, so I'm having him bring both so I can probe them and see them in person. They will be pets first, but I do have plans to breed once they are up to size. I have a really light hypo lavender motley male ill be pairing her with.
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I don't think it's that they're not being fed properly. They were never intended to breed, so the previous owner had them on a maintainer diet of once every 15 days, and the guy who has them now feeds once every 10 days. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I've heard of people doing it. I'll bump them up to every 5-7 days to get some weight on them.
 
Jessica29 said:
I don't think it's that they're not being fed properly. They were never intended to breed, so the previous owner had them on a maintainer diet of once every 15 days, and the guy who has them now feeds once every 10 days. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I've heard of people doing it. I'll bump them up to every 5-7 days to get some weight on them.
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Please accept my appology i misread.
 
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