Miss Marley

[InsanePirateDragon]

Someone's starting to go blue eye once more already, her last shed was on the 15th so I believe that its a good sign that she's growing. I should probably get another weight and measure on her though I'm not sure if my scale is accurate enough since she's always reading at 30 grams.

Soon it'll be time for another photoshoot to see if there's a noticeable difference in any of the bleeding or fade, for some reason I'm wanting to give it a name.

[InsanePirateDragon]

And once again Marley shed while I was gone she must be shy about it, except we had our first spot of trouble as it all kinked up and knotted at the end of her tail, right before the break so it was a knotted, tangled, and wet mess.

Luckily it came off easily after a warm soak and gently working it off and she didn't raise a fuss, she's awesome at being handled as long as its not her head. Couldn't find the head in the mess but it looks like she shed the eyecaps shed and happily took a couple of nightcrawlers.

I'll get some pics in the morning when there's daylight.

[InsanePirateDragon]

You can see how broken the line is looking now and how the color of the stripe is different, but it looks like the red is starting to develop further down down.



Here is still pretty normal looking but spots and speckling are coming in further down


The weird speckling is much more visible after the latest shed. Its really visible now against Marley's tail.

[guidofatherof5]

Strikingly beautiful snakes. Nice photos.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Strikingly beautiful snakes. Nice photos.

Thanks, would you believe that I've been taking theses with an Android phone. The high tech camera's always out busy. My family has a side photography business.

[Stefan-A]

Thanks, would you believe that I've been taking theses with an Android phone.

If that's true, nice.

[Natrix]

would you believe that I've been taking theses with an Android phone.? Yeah! Cause that's exactly what I use. get the focus right and you can take some awsome pics. Beautiful Parietalis.

[EasternGirl]

She looks awesome!

[chris-uk]

A lot of my photos are taken on an HTC Sensation, get the light and the focus right and the picture quality is great for posting online. Unlike my Canon, the phone is either in my pocket or nearby when I need to take a photo. What I'm learning with snakes is that a good picture is more about the right place at the right time, rather than setting something up. Setting up a shot works too, but you still end up waiting for the right moment.

[InsanePirateDragon]

So no recent pictures of Marley since I've been busy and really hadn't had time. But Marley's changed a lot in the past few months.

But I've still been handling her regularly and she is just awesome with it and handles it a lot better than my Leo. She's quite happy to slither back and forth between your hands and just curl up with you on the computer and wants to check these things out. And she lets other people handle her with out a problem, though she doesn't like the top of her head touched, she loves her bottom jaw scratched.

And something I've noticed, I've never had the luck of being musked by her, even when I first brought her in and started cleaning her wounds, probably the most stressful time for her.

These guys are awesome snakes I can't wait until I do get another garter. I plan on going to the next reptile show in May to see if maybe by chance there are some garters there.

If not, I might have to wait until I get back from my trip in June/July. I don't want to end up boarding too many critters.