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This is Sweet Momma during June of 2003 on her first clutch of eggs.  She laid 10 good eggs that day and 3 slugs.  Unfortunately, I had an incubator problem right after I put the eggs in and so they all got cold and went bad.  VERY FRUSTRATING!!!
Ever wanted to see a snake "slug"?  Well, this is it.  Snake slugs are unfertilized ova that come out when the female lays her fertilized eggs too.  They are rock hard and a little bit greasy.
This is my male blood, Heavy D, November 2002. I couldn't decide which photo I liked best so here's all three that I was trying to choose from.
Heavy D - closeup of his head.
Heavy D - just hanging out.
This is my female blood, Sweet Momma, November 2002. She's getting bigger and bigger each month. I have not been overfeeding her though. I only feed her every 10-14 days. But sometimes I use her as my garbage collector when there are other snakes who don't finish their dinner. :) She's still not a very trustworthy snake but she hasn't bitten me in at least a year or two. Not for lack of trying though.
This is my male blood python, Heavy D, in Jan 2002. He's just over two years old here and weighs about 950 grams. He is more red than his sister and while she has some stripes down her back, he has the broken up pattern. He is the nicest snake and never hisses at all. The only trouble that I have had with him is that he only eats live rats and some weeks he's not interested in eating.
This is my female, Sweet Momma, in Jan 2002. She has never been a problem feeder and on this day she weighed in at a hefty 1570 grams -- much bigger than her brother. To go with her great feeding response is a bit of a hissy attitude. I wear leather gloves when I pull her out. She hasn't bit me yet, but when she was younger she used to try! One day she'll live up to her name...
This is Sweet Momma's nice, new 36" Vision cage. I have a feeling I'll be putting her into a 48" model in a year or two. Her brother still hasn't graduated from his sweater box.
This is Heavy D in Jan 2001 and he was about 500-600 grams here. This photo was taken by Brian Gollmer who was in Salt Lake city on business. (We made sure that there was some herp business for him to do too.) If you look at more recent photos, you can see that Heavy D's juvenile coloring has changed and he has gotten redder since this photo.