Then and now

[CDN_Blood]

Here are some comparison shots for you all. Enjoy :)

Blue then
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-18.jpg

Blue now - 10 years later
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-28.jpg



Bubbles (wee Bubba) then
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-19.jpg

Bubbles now - 2 years later
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-16.jpg



Boom-Boom (Boomers) then
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-29.jpg

Boom-Boom now - 1 year later
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-30.jpg



Blue and Bubba last month
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-31.jpg

[bbb13]

Those are nice lookin man.

[alessia55]

wow they look great. Fantastic colors on them. :yes:

[snake man12]

Cool,I love comparison shots

[stephanbakir]

Looks great, wish there was more to compare to though.

[Xeperxi]

What cool pics! Beautiful examples, love seeing before and after pics they grow so fast :)

[CDN_Blood]

Looks great, wish there was more to compare to though.

Meaning what, exactly?

[marvelfreak]

Sweet pics. It's cool seeing how much they grown and color up.

[Gungirl]

Meaning what, exactly?

If he is thinking the same as me.. I would guess for size. If you had your hand on all of them or what not.

[CDN_Blood]

If he is thinking the same as me.. I would guess for size. If you had your hand on all of them or what not.

Not the easiest thing to capture because I'm always behind the camera, but maybe these will help :)

Blue 2 days ago
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-32.jpg

Bubba 6 months ago
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-33.jpg

Boomers 1 month ago
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/file-34.jpg

[snake man12]

Wow I didn't realize how fat bloods get:)

[CDN_Blood]

Wow I didn't realize how fat bloods get:)

Haha, yeah. Mine aren't as heavy as most folk's are. I prefer them to resemble the shape, weight and tone that Bloods in the wild have, so they get out for lots of exercise to keep them fit and lean.

The Borneo (Boom-Boom) is the only female, so she's proportionately larger than the males, but she's still nice and trim even though she's as big around as my oldest male who is 6 years her senior and more than a foot longer than she is.

[stephanbakir]

For size pics the easiest way is to just add a coin next to the animals in all the pictures, or anything with a size that everyone will know.

[ineedsoap16]

Beautiful animals. Love the red on the first one.

Ryan

[Kayla90]

Wooow great looking bloods.. Those last pictures definitely help show off just how big they are :P You just can't help but love those cute little fatties :D :D

[CDN_Blood]

Continuing the Then and Now thing, here are 2 shots of Wee Bubba with Blue which are 27 months apart. I've been giggling about the 1st one since I posted it to my new website so I figured I'd share it here too. It shows a little bit of growth. Enjoy :)

2009.09
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/Bubbles/file-5.jpg

2011.12
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/Bubbles/file-6.jpg

[Jacob1750]

I hope my female will grow that big, if I can get her to eat :P

[CDN_Blood]

I hope my female will grow that big, if I can get her to eat :P

Oh, once she's eating she'll get a *lot* bigger than my boys.

My female Borneo is proportionately much larger than the males already. She's only 4 years old and about the same length as Bubbles, but easily twice (if not a little more) his bulk. She's probably closer to three times his size at the same length. It sounds drastic, but females are just bigger all over.

[Norm66]

I like the comparison pics. Great colors on your bloods. Thanks for sharing.

[CDN_Blood]

I like the comparison pics. Great colors on your bloods. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Norm. I chose the brongs as hatchlings because I liked their respective patterns, I could tell they'd have great adult colouration (one of which I'm still waiting to see) and because they would look quite a bit different from one another as adults, colour-wise. They're reversing, which is exactly what I hoped would happen - Blue started as a yellowish-orange hatchling and turned almost red, whereas Bubbles started as a reddish hatchling and is turning yellow. I hoped Bubbles would mature into a true yellow adult (quite uncommon now) and he's not disappointing so far, but I've got another couple of years to wait before I see his adult colouration.

The previous owner of the breit chose me, so I didn't have any say in her colours or pattern, but she's a classic Borneo, she has great colouration when you see her in person and she's Canadian-bred from well-known lineage, so I can't complain at all about her. She's a great snake :)

[KORBIN5895]

Todd hate to derail but can you sex boas by sight if so would you tell me how and at what age?

[CDN_Blood]

Todd hate to derail but can you sex boas by sight if so would you tell me how and at what age?

It's not impossible, but some species are easier than others to do that with. Send me a PM with as many details as you have and I'll let ya know what you can do.

[brylecc1989]

Absolutely love bloods!

[Gungirl]

2009.09
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/Bubbles/file-5.jpg
]

Love this Pic!

[alessia55]

Continuing the Then and Now thing, here are 2 shots of Wee Bubba with Blue which are 27 months apart. I've been giggling about the 1st one since I posted it to my new website so I figured I'd share it here too. It shows a little bit of growth. Enjoy :)

2009.09
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/Bubbles/file-5.jpg

2011.12
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/CDN_Blood/Bloods/Bubbles/file-6.jpg

This is amazing! That's a huge difference in the first pic :eek: It happens so fast too... I barely remember when my 2yr old ball python was a baby, so I'm taking tons of photos of Pika since he's a baby now to remember it :p That's amazing though how little Bubba was... tinnyyyy!

[CDN_Blood]

...I barely remember when my 2yr old ball python was a baby, so I'm taking tons of photos of Pika since he's a baby now to remember it...

Glad to hear it. In 20 years when you look back at your images, you'll be really glad you took so many :)

[millertime89]

that growth is really impressive. That first picture is pretty cool, the little one looking at the big one looks like she's thinking "I hope I'm that big one day."