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12-Nov-04, 12:47 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | |
While we're on the subject of reptile identification could you all have a look at this?
When i went to my breeder, I expressed my desire for a Diamond but have suspicions that I didn't get what I asked for. I don't think he intentionally decepted me, but he did have a lot of hatchlings at the time and it was probably a genuine mistake. Also, is there anyone on the North Shore (syd) that would be able to determine the sex my snake for me?
sorry about the poor picture quality, it was really warm that day and hard to keep her still.
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12-Nov-04, 12:51 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Epping, NSW | | | | RE: Diamond or Coastal?
Cant really tell from the pic but diamonds look like carpets when they are young. |
12-Nov-04, 12:57 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | RE: Diamond or Coastal?
I'm about 75% sure but do coastals get much green on them? She looks really green at the moment.  :
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12-Nov-04, 12:59 PM
|  | primitively archaic Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender:  | | | | RE: Diamond or Coastal?
Nah mate, I reckon it's a Diamond. They don't look very good when they are juvies. Just give it time. You are not the first bloke to be worried that its not a Diamond.
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Why wont my snake fetch? That's right..because he is not a dog.
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12-Nov-04, 01:08 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | RE: Diamond or Coastal?
I knew i was worrying about nothing. there's just a few intergrades in the ARO classifieds that have that same horseshoes shape on the back of the head, i guess that particular intergrade had similar markings to it's diamond parent rather than it's coastal parent. Any idea how long it will take before it starts to look more like a diamond? She's almost 9 months old now.
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12-Nov-04, 01:09 PM
| | | | Looks like a diamond to me. Just give her a couple of months and she'll start to colour up more and more with each successive shed. |
12-Nov-04, 02:10 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: North Brisbane Metro | | | | I would also say diamond .
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12-Nov-04, 02:14 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | My money would be on diamond. |
12-Nov-04, 02:25 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: G>F>A>C AFRO!! | | | | yeah looks like a diamond form those pics, also found in my experience that diamonds get markings on the back of their head that looks like the shape of a diamond. |
12-Nov-04, 02:33 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: frankston victoria Age: 22 | | | | looks like a diamond to me |
12-Nov-04, 03:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: sydney | | | | yep thats a diamond!! |
12-Nov-04, 04:12 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | Diamond.
They usually have their adult colours by about 2 years old. A personal observation of mine is that diamonds with the horseshoe shape at the back of the head usually have alot of yellow on them as adults.
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So shedding dead skin, working true colours loose
Renewing the red in their eyes
They coil like sin within thinning excuse
Cold-blooded to sharpen the lies.
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12-Nov-04, 04:22 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | Whilst i appreciate your opinion, i really do have to question why the horseshoe shape would have to have anything to do with the rest of the colouration on the animal? is it a trait of a particular bloodline?
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12-Nov-04, 04:31 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Epping, NSW | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by serpenttongue A personal observation of mine is that diamonds with the horseshoe shape at the back of the head usually have alot of yellow on them as adults. | I second that. Take a look at this one on Matthew Bonnet's site http://www.users.on.net/~jbonnett/diamond-male.jpg
It has a horse shoe shape on the back of its head.
I went with a friend the other day to purchase a diamond juvie. I pursuaded her to get the one with a horseshoe and it also had very little black on it and will turn out to be a stunner for sure.
The breeder said that when it came out of the egg it was pink 
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12-Nov-04, 04:41 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | I cant explain it. But out of all the diamonds i have hatched, those with the horseshoe shape have become drenched in yellow as adults. I'm sure theres dark diamonds with the horseshoe shape as well. As i said, just my personal observation.
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So shedding dead skin, working true colours loose
Renewing the red in their eyes
They coil like sin within thinning excuse
Cold-blooded to sharpen the lies.
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