My stimmie's first birthday shoot - lots of pictures!

[Renenet]

Hi,

Strictly, she's one year, three weeks and three days old in these pictures. I have been very lucky with Zephyr. She is a healthy, trouble-free python. She has the sweetest temperament and yet will strike and "kill" her rodents every time, never refusing a feed. Although she seems a bit darker than some other wheatbelts I've seen, I think she's not a bad-looking girl to boot.

Current stats: 81 centimetres long, according to Herpmeasure, and 178 grams.

Photo notes: I took most of these this morning, with a Nikon D80 and an 18-135 mm lens. I was experimenting with the manual focus and a couple of these "best of" shots are slightly fuzzy when they shouldn't be. To compensate for the lack of a macro lens I set the camera to high quality images and large file sizes, then crop. Not ideal, though it really does help that Zephyr is bigger now.

Now for the photos. Zephyr in the shade, then in the sunshine:



Zephyr explores the lawn:



And my all-time favourite shot of her:



Patterns:



Comparison shots between 6 January 2012 and March 2011:



Enjoy,

Renenet.

 

[Smithers]

Coming along gorgeously Darl,...that's noice noice very noice. Well done getting the shot with a random ruler in the yard

 

[Reptilefreak95]

nive stimmy, good photos, and..... happy birthday! haha

 

[Renenet]

Thanks.

Well done getting the shot with a random ruler in the yard

Yeah, I know. That was spectacularly good luck.

 

[stimigex]

Very nice indeed, She has grown well

 

[Renenet]

Yeah, I'm very happy with her. I'm hoping to get her a male this year for breeding in 2013.

 

[Dan40D]

Awsome, i'll have to take some more pics of mine before i go to work, i finished of my new enclosures and 1 rock wall today, but my boy is in shed now so i'll wait till hes finished to move in

 

[abnrmal91]

It's a birthday shoot in her birthday suit. Looks good

 

[Renenet]

It's a birthday shoot in her birthday suit. Looks good

It sure is. She shed only three days before this.

 

[Fantazmic]

Renenet she is looking really lovely

Who bred her ?

 

[Kitah]

what a nice looking stimmy! LOVE the dorsal pattern, as bet seen in the first 'pattern' photo you posted.

 

[Renenet]

Thanks, guys. I agree, Kitah, she has really cool patterns.

She ate an unscented fuzzy rat last night with no hesitation whatsoever. It's been so easy shifting her over I suspect I could feed her with rats and mice interchangeably if I had to.

 

[Dan40D]

She ate an unscented fuzzy rat last night with no hesitation whatsoever. It's been so easy shifting her over I suspect I could feed her with rats and mice interchangeably if I had to.

Interesting that you say that, we were discussing this a couple of weeks ago. The last three feeds my boy has had have been 2 fuzzy rats and then i swapped him back to an adult mouse, had no dramas at all, he has smashed them all with the usual psychotic feeding response that i have come to expect, i new there was a reason i bought the long tongs!

 

[Renenet]

"Psychotic feeding response" - I like it. My girl eats with gusto as well. I wonder, with some facetiousness, if I find her a male like yours and breed them, will their hatchies be any easier to get onto rodents?

 

[Dan40D]

Haha, don't know, my female is just as bad. I've heard people complaining that their wheatbelts are their worst feeding snakes, if mine end up been my worst feeders i think i'd have a problem, i'd be missing digits.

 

[Renenet]

I don't think fuzzy rats are big enough for her. A day after she ate it she produced urates. Normally, she does that at least two days after eating. I'll feed her a couple of fuzzy rats for the next few times, then try her on weaners.

 

[traceylee]

I think she looks lovely!
I love the head shot in the grass!

Happy birthday Zephyr!

 

[Renenet]

Thanks, Traceylee.

 

[Morgan_dragon]

YAY!!!

Happy Birthday Zephyr

 

[Renenet]

Thanks, Morgan_dragon.