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Post by lordsorril on Aug 7, 2024 20:33:21 GMT -5
Photo #363 Some porous Nipomo Agate with Marcasite and a Firefly (Fire/Pastel), 66% Possible Het Clown, +50% Possible Het Blade ball python. Note: The pores in some of these Agates are like ant tunnels...grinding the stones down does nothing to fix them.
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 8, 2024 8:31:49 GMT -5
Photo #364 A Chunk of Thunderegg that broke apart during tumble, and a Spider+Het Gravel or YB ball python.
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Post by python on Aug 8, 2024 16:55:18 GMT -5
Great pics!
I really enjoy this thread and your creativity with matching the rocks with the snakes. Keep up the great work! 👍
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 10, 2024 12:56:09 GMT -5
Great pics! I really enjoy this thread and your creativity with matching the rocks with the snakes. Keep up the great work! 👍 Thanks! Though after 364 photos of snakes with various stones-I'm starting to feel like all the new images are becoming derivative of my past work. I would like to switch to a different style, but, I'm fatigued from ongoing life events-so my photography takes a backseat for now... Photo #365 Beryl-yellow/green (looks light blue in the camera flash) and Amethyst with a Firefly (Pastel/Fire) Clown, 50% Possible Het for Blade. Note: Blade is a co-dominant gene which causes pattern reduction expressed prominently in Clown morphs, however, I currently do not have enough experience to ID it in a Pastel/Fire combo-so I mark it as a 50% chance (which would be the statistical genetic outcome)... Once I have collected enough specimens with the Blade gene I should be able to compare them in greater detail and 'train' my eyes to recognize it. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 11, 2024 13:16:51 GMT -5
I was at the Londonderry NH flea market this morning. Usually I'm a pretty picky and I don't find anything at these events. Today, however, there was a guy from Florida who had all sorts of stuff he had found and collected off the beaches. Of note were small dinosaur bones, spent oceanic creature egg cases, shark teeth, interesting unusual shells, and assortment of small odd minerals (too small to tumble fyi). When I started to ask questions about some of his stuff he was thrilled to find someone to discuss his collection with-he was very knowledgeable on what he had found. I thought it was hilarious that he said that people on the Florida beaches are sooooo intent on finding shark teeth that they are tossing away fossils because they do not know what they are looking at... In the end I purchased a really heavy fossilized oyster, and some dinosaur bones-for my tumbling efforts. He pretty much gave them to me for free, and I had to insist he take a small amount of money...again, a really cool guy.   Ball python is the Lavender Albino from Photo #357. The silver coin for scale is beneath the right side of the fossilized oyster. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 12, 2024 7:33:36 GMT -5
Photo #366 This is a stone collected from Snake River in Idaho. It looks porous, but, it took a nice polish. The stone was originally one piece with a crack down the center which I split and then tumbled. I'm sure there is a joke in here somewhere, but, I'm going to take the 'highroad'.  Ball python is a Fire/66% Het Clown/50% Possible Het Blade.
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Post by Rockoonz on Aug 13, 2024 0:39:37 GMT -5
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 13, 2024 7:04:31 GMT -5
Hahaha! That actually looks more like a dinosaur to me. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 13, 2024 7:11:00 GMT -5
Photo #367 This rock was collected from the Connecticut River, it sorta looks like feldspar, but, it is so heavy that it is obviously some type of quartz. Note: This stone is also about the largest size I can polish in my UV18 without issues. Ball python is a Firefly (Fire/Pastel)/66% Het Clown/50% Het Blade.
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Post by victor1941 on Aug 13, 2024 9:45:32 GMT -5
I enjoy your photography and excellent snake stone combinations.
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 15, 2024 13:34:13 GMT -5
I enjoy your photography and excellent snake stone combinations. Thanks! Watching my eggs hatch, and seeing the progress when I clean out my rock tumblers are the highlights of my week. Photo #368 Tumbled thunderegg with a 66% Het Clown/50% Het Blade Ball python. It seems like there is more going on with this ball python, but, until I move another generation out in breeding-I won't be able to tell. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 16, 2024 8:17:49 GMT -5
Great start to my day: My Clutch #8 started hatching and I see TWO Lavender Albinos of which I only had a 25% change/egg to produce. Now, if I get really lucky I will have Piebald on one, but, I calculate the cumulative odds of that to be 1/8 on a Lavender Albino...so that is just getting greedy.  I also was working on my rock tumblers and I was ready for another barrel of tumbling rough. My selection is based on what random unopened shipping box bursts in my garage.  Looks like some Montana Agate! Whooo! I was dreading Angelite or Septarian (which I know is hiding in there somewhere). |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 17, 2024 9:14:36 GMT -5
Photo #369 Two pieces of stromatolite with a 66% Het Clown/50% Het Lavender Albino ball python. Takes a great shine, but, given the nature of fossilized layered cyanobacteria: I would prefer uneven larger pieces rather than smaller rounded ones. And just for fun: Here is a picture of my Clutch #9 which just finished hatching the other day. 
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 18, 2024 19:49:29 GMT -5
Photo #370 Ball python is a 66% Het Clown/50% Het Lavender Albino.
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Post by mdjunkie on Aug 21, 2024 7:59:16 GMT -5
For someone who's deathly afraid of snakes, they are amazing looking. Seems there's as much variety in them as you find in rocks.
Your staging between the rocks and snakes seem to compliment each other so well.
Thanks for sharing!
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 21, 2024 19:59:16 GMT -5
For someone who's deathly afraid of snakes, they are amazing looking. Seems there's as much variety in them as you find in rocks. Your staging between the rocks and snakes seem to compliment each other so well. Thanks for sharing! Thanks! I still have a healthy fear of wild snakes. As constrictors: ball pythons have almost no offensive capability against a human...and their main defense is curling into a ball...that is fine by me... As for variety: there are ~300 ball python color/pattern genes recognized at the moment. If you consider the number of permutations possible: that is 2.846×10^614. According to ChatGPT: This number exceeds the number of grains of sand on the planet Earth. Photo #371 i find this light green stone locally in Massachusetts in very small quantities. It is textured and has a Mohs value of 4.5-5.0 and is extremely prone to fracturing: Does not seem like Granite, Basalt, or the usual Serpentinite I normally find. I have completely obliterated many pieces of this material in an effort to try and 'clean it up'. Poor tumbling rough found in New England??-Tough to believe-I know-I know...*lol*... Ball python is a 66% Het Clown/50% Het Lavender Albino. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 22, 2024 19:26:22 GMT -5
Photo #372 If you look carefully you can see the body of the snake showing through the top of the translucent snowflake obsidian. BP: 66% Het Clown/50% Het Lavender Albino
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 23, 2024 7:48:33 GMT -5
Photo #373 Some larger pieces of Atlantis Wonder Jasper. BP: 66% Het Clown/50% Het Lav Albino The stone on the right I considered splitting down the fracture line, but, this material can have a lot of porous inclusions-and I didn't feel it was worth the risk.
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Post by Tommy on Aug 23, 2024 8:31:24 GMT -5
Great start to my day: My Clutch #8 started hatching and I see TWO Lavender Albinos of which I only had a 25% change/egg to produce. Now, if I get really lucky I will have Piebald on one, but, I calculate the cumulative odds of that to be 1/8 on a Lavender Albino...so that is just getting greedy. Out of curiosity has the third one hatched and what was it? |
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