This kid is spectacular. I've been waiting 9 years to see Seabreeze grandbabies, and they're finally here. With any luck they'll have their first sheds by next weekend so I can give them a proper photoshoot.
Freshly peeled Burnt Toast melanin progression update at 1 year and two months! His change this month is more subtle, in person you can faintly see his spots, but looking at the previous picture it’s definitely darker! His head pattern is pretty stubborn, it seems like it’s the last thing that changes in this morph. He is constantly getting cuter, always on the move but hope he settles down into an adult that doesn’t mind chilling from time to time
rio, my buddy guy, is the only one with mites still on him (they've been a fucking huge pain to get rid of) but besides that he's doing good. he's little dehydrated from the piece of shit bugs sucking his blood but hopefully i will have them eradicated soon. take a look at his SillyFace
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knowing what they turn into would you pick mazaboa or cuauhtlamna?
mazaboa
based on mazacoatl, the antlered snake, often depicted as a mounstrous snake and deer hybrid that burns people as depicted by spanish texts it would seem the actual term just refers to the boa constrictor imperator (or based on inaturalist just boa imperator now), this species of boa is relatively small reaching nearly 4 meters at max and lives mainly in the trees where it hunts other smaller animals like iguanas by constricting them (conveniently making it a good evo for a creature based on a kingsnake). Its usually depicted as a dragon like monster as the spanish wanted to characterize all mythological creatures from the region as some sort of demon (thus the fire)
based on aquilolamna, a strange manta like shark discovered in mexico whose name means eagle shark which might mean it wasnt a hunter but a filter feeder similar to the whale shark but in a smaller scale. its from the creataceous period and the fossil discovered was almost like an impression of the body left in the stone
I'll get better pictures once he's settled in and gotten the stuck shed off his head, but everything about him is gorgeous and Im already head over heels. just need a good gemstone name, any ideas??