Pride & Joy

[ratboy]

This little girl is one of my pride & joy snakes

She is a radiated rat snake and the mother to the eggs I have incubating at the moment.

The first 2 photos show her at rest. You can see that her body shape is higher than it is wide. The species does not and should not have round bodies like their North American cousins. She is very relaxed in the photographs, she just shed this morning so is looking particularly bright and colourful.





This species gets irritated and 'annoyed' by anything that happens unexpectedly. This results in them inflating their necks to make themselves look bigger.

Here she is showing mild irritation at being picked up... but this is a long long way from a 'bad' session where she will lift the front of her body off the ground, gape her mouth and launch herself at me... that is usually saved for when I put her back in her viv and she is back in familiar and 'safe' surroundings.

They are a LOT of fun

[Lynne]

she is gorgeous.

[Ghostface]

She's lovely the viv is all set up, i'll be in all day tomorrow so you can just drop her off then

[LeeH]

thats a pretty snake there Steve..i like the yellow colouration

[ratboy]

Originally Posted by Ghostface

She's lovely the viv is all set up, i'll be in all day tomorrow so you can just drop her off then

Cool... I'll swap her for one of those pigs flying in dam buster formation around your house

[Ghostface]

Originally Posted by ratboy

Cool... I'll swap her for one of those pigs flying in dam buster formation around your house

Seeing as it's you, you can take two

[Dan]

Nice Steve, REAL nice.

What does dad look like? Ie does he have the same strength of yellow?

[grannykins]

I would love one of these, they are gorgeous, and I like snakes with a bit of attitude. So how much will your babies be?

[solid]

Stunning - another to add to my wanted list.

[ratboy]

Originally Posted by reticulatus

Nice Steve, REAL nice.

What does dad look like? Ie does he have the same strength of yellow?

No Dan, he is much more subtlely coloured than she is... he is more unpredictable in behaviour too. She leaves you in no doubt as to her mood from the moment she knows you are about, whereas he can be as calm as a corn snake one second then get spooked by something... someone else entering the room is often a good trigger.

These were taken in November.