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Nome
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You guys are mean :?
B ut I haven't laughed this hard for ages, I'm still wiping tears out of my eyes. :lol:
Hey Sdaji, was your original question actually serious?
B ut I haven't laughed this hard for ages, I'm still wiping tears out of my eyes. :lol:
Hey Sdaji, was your original question actually serious?
I wasn't trying to be mean :cry:
I was laughing so much with the posts on this thread last night I literally had tears coming down my face!
As for my original question, yes, it was serious, I'm interested in getting a lot of the nice colour variants, such as green olives, green childrens, starburst womas, green water pythons, black and gold jungles (not black and yellow, mind you), black and white jungles (not black and grey, mind you) and many other colour variants which exist as names only. I'm also after some of those Australian tarantulas which are as large as dinner plates, some eight foot tigers, ten foot brown snakes and many other animals which are commonly known to exist. I wasn't trying to make a sarcastic statement about descriptions of our animals being very misleading, exaggerated or purely false. Some of them eg black and gold jungles, red keelbacks, red beardies etc are close to fair enough, but others are just absurd.
Just while were there (also serious) I've seen in a book by graham gow (early book) a very blueish colored python described as variegata, yet i was told today by a well known breeder hes never heard of such a variant excepting in coastals (mcdowelii). Very confused with the taxa! :?
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I know, cutie :wink:Sdaji said:
Have to say, this was the funniest thread I've read in a long time :lol:
instar said:
If it was an early boook Inny, it was probably before the spilota complex was split up into all the different subspecies. There use to be just two - spilota spilota (Diamond Python), and everything else was spilota variegata (Carpet python).
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Hell guys very funny indeed... makes me want to chuck a tizzy...
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soulweaver
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Sdaji,
Unless something has gone right over my head, what the hell is a starburst woma or a green childrens python? Even olives and water pythons don't come in much of a shade of green either, I've seen hundreds of olives and waters and they are all almost identical. The only variation I've ever seen in an olive was a bronze coloured animal. Apologies if I've missed something but the whole post is more than a little confusing.
Regards,
Splitmore
Splitmore, are you serious? I thought by now it was quite obvious I had been joking from the start. As far as I'm concerned, there are no green children's/maccies etc, or waters, or olives. I've also seen a reasonable number of olives and waters, but I think there is significant variation, no green of course but there are different shades of grey and brown, and with olives they can be particularly variable. Water bellies vary a lot too, from cream to bright yellow and deep orange. I'm a little suprised that you'd say out of hundreds of waters and olives there has been almost no variation, but of course, none will be green.
"Starburst womas" are basically fictional, the name was stuck on some of the first womas sold in USA and it pops up every now and again. I've never heard of them being sold in Australia, and most Australians don't seem to be familiar with the term (thankfully). I'll probably scream if I ever see an Australian ad for a starburst woma.
Apologies for starting this thread, but I think the laughs that many had were well worth it!
I have a carpet which I bred in the 2001-2002 season which has a bluish head. When he was about 18 months old I first noticed it (I kept him because of his pattern) but thought little of it. Most people who see him say "wow, his head is blue" or "is it just me or does he have a blue head?" etc. It isn't rich royal blue, but it's blue enough for many people to call it that, and probably more blue than a green olive is green. I've back crossed him to his mother this season, so things should be interesting. It's a big shame that the colours won't come through for at least a year or two, so I'll be trying to keep in touch with as many buyers of these as possible. I sold a few really interesting ones from the same clutch which I had planned to keep after they talked me into letting them go on condition that they'd send me photos when they grew up, but suprise suprise I've never heard from any of them again :roll:
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