Fresh shed Bantam Sunkissed girl Edam. Not yet spoken for.
Fresh shed Dark Factor(?) Bantam Caramel Shatter male Snickerdoodle. I don’t have space to expand Bantam and prove out this apparent hypermelanistic mutation too, so I’m sending him and a female to friends to prove.
The proud parents!!! 
CBB’s grandparents. 
Good looking family!
Awwwww! He ate today. I will weigh him later on and update you!
This Bantam Honey Stripe caught me by surprise with how yellow she’s getting. She may have that Dark Factor thing too, so I don’t know how that would look. Shortcake.
Really pretty yellows! I have a sunkissed female whose yellows are pretty dramatic, too. She’s even more yellow than my boys, which is funny since most other colors are more intense in the males. Go figure.
Beautiful. Very yellow for an Inferno. Anything else except Amel and SK?
Hypo sunkissed snow
Ohhhh. I see so few SK Snows. Love it!
I just wish she had het motley or stripe or diffused or caramel or…something. She’d be more flexible for multiple projects…but Paul adores her, and so do I, so I think she’s here forever. If all goes well this year, she’ll be producing some more RF+SK ghosts or hypo snows (depending on if the baby inherits dad’s het amel)! All the babies will be het motley/stripe from Dad, so that’ll be fun for the next generation.
Maybe a compatible Tessera male would be good. Alternate pattern in F1. More in F2.
Bantam Mom and her bouncing baby bantam boy who leaves next week. Dulcie and Utz. Bonus pic of Papa Castillo.
What does the length of the days have to do with the eating habits of some snakes?
I imagine for a lot of species, especially those that can/do brumate, longer light cycles = indicators of spring = food supply increase and metabolism spike = higher food drive
The same way breeders can use temperature or lighting to ‘trick’ certain species into thinking it was the time of year where breeding starts, even if it isn’t that way outside
Pretty much this. I think some corn lines, especially those with Keys heritage, hatch late and don’t want to eat as days get shorter. Some even start then stop, which I’ll bet is the norm for their ancestral populations. Eat a couple of tiny lizards and then hole up until days get longer in spring.
But it’s not so predictable. Not all hatchlings in the family are jerks. Some are third generation never-refusers whose clutchmates don’t believe in carrying on the tradition.
Every member of this family has converted eventually.
Maybe that was Shatto’s deal……
