Matt, will you post some pics of Mason?

[KLG]

Pretty, pretty please?

:toothy7: :toothy7:

K~

[The Cleaner]

Here is Mason from start to just recently

2 weeks old and just after his first shed
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/TE0002male.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/websize/TE0002%20close-up.jpg

Some white begining to show
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_%2003-02-03.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_%2003-07-03.jpg

More white on the neck and stripe starting to show
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_%2003-31-03.jpg

Just at 5 months old the white is coming in bolder
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/websize/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_%2004-26-03.jpg

At 6 months and a week Mason is very 'moldy' and the white is getting more prominent
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/websize/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_06-06-03.jpg

8 months old and Mason is famous already and getting better
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/TE0002%20_Mason%20Verger_%2007-27-03.jpg

A year and a half old
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/websize/Mason%20Vergerex%20Close-up.jpg

A little over 2 years old and getting better with every shed!
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/Mason%20Vergerex%20Close-up%20october%202004.jpg

Close-up of neck scales
http://photos.imageevent.com/ghireptiles/mason/Mason%20Scales.jpg

My little Mason Verger is growing up :smt022

[KLG]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE that snake! FABULOUS!

You know...it just occurred to me...that's why I don't have a Basin yet! Holding out for a Mason baby!

:smt118 :smt118 :smt118 :smt118 :smt088 :smt088 :smt088 :smt088 :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :love4: :love4: :love4:

Thanks Matty!!!!

:)

K~

[The Cleaner]

Well I am now thinking that Mason is a female. Mason probed 6 scales and males usually 'swallow' the probe. I have another female that probed 6 that is currently being bred by a male at Tony Nicolis house so that is what makes me think this is a female....any thoughts? :smt017

[CraigC]

Nice progression pictoral Matt! Well, one thing that is always certain, although you might have to wait until Mason is a bit older, is watching them poop. The hemipenes will evert and you'll get to see proof positive and sometimes a sperm packet will come out. Our massive 6' northern probed as a female, but so far every male we have put in with her has been pretty intimidated and ends up down on ground or far away as he can get. We took her out on the gym for some exercise and got visual evidence (or I guess you could say lack of) that she is female. Who probed him/her? someone extremely experienced? Why did you think Mason was a he in the first place? The tail shape/length method?

Karen

[The Cleaner]

Hey Karen,

Tony and I probrd Mason and at the time just thought 6 was boderline but he now has an animal that probed 6 that is being bred so we now are thinking female :smt017

[CraigC]

I think both of the NLs we got from Al probed to 5-6 and I know the one we ended up keeping has no hemipenes. If I remember correctly (ask Danny if he remembers) somebody on the corallus yahoo list years ago had a female probe to 8.
K