Profile: Valentine the Voluptuous

Kaetlinv · 08-23-12, 06:52 PM

Valentine... The snake we wanted to be a boy but ended up being a girl, and a huge one at that. She started out shorter than my arm, and maybe as big around as a nickel. Nowadays she's thicker than my wrist, and longer than my leg is tall. She's named for the delicate little upside down heart on top of her head. She's only struck once in her life and that was as a babe, and she's never bit. She started off the chain, and she will never be sold unless it's for her own wellbeing. She's my darling, beautiful girl.

These are all chronological.

snake man12 · 08-23-12, 06:53 PM

Valentine is quite voluptuous!!

**Pareeeee** · 08-23-12, 07:01 PM

Very nice BP

Kaetlinv · 08-23-12, 07:06 PM

It kind of shocked me how big she is today.
Saw a post on one of the python breeders i'm following on facebook.... They bred a roughly 550g male to a 1428g female. O.o I look at 1400g and I think it's tiny... Val when I weighed her was near to 1700g... She's less now cause she's been off food for about a month and a half, but she's still huge.

Hurrok · 08-23-12, 07:49 PM

Awe, she looks like a sweet heart.

A very big sweety lol!

Kaetlinv · 08-23-12, 07:51 PM

She is a sweetheart, she puts up with so much from me haha. she handles very well, too. My sister, who Val's never been held by before, came over the other day and held her. Absolutely no change - she's used to being maneuvered and messed with hehe. Right now she's taking a nap, it looks like. I've never seen her sleeping so obviously. She's under her new half-log hide and there's just a slight tilt / lean to her head to one side >XD it's adorable!

Rogue628 · 08-24-12, 02:00 AM

Awww....she's adorable!

She's healthy looking

Kaetlinv · 08-24-12, 09:51 AM

I like to think i take great care of my girls <3 they have good, whole sheds. They poop and pee regularly, yawn on occasion, eat well, and drink every now and again. Valentine is an active bugger. Just not sure why she doesnt want to eat recently. I think she didnt feel secure. Her rock hide had gotten too small for her but now shes got a huge half log hide that she fits under and shes been under that rather than roaming during the day. Ill try and feed her in a week or so since i tried yesterday.

jaleely · 08-24-12, 08:27 PM

Very sweet look lil girl..or big girl *lol*
Our girl is getting there. I need to weigh her.
She's always so docile and curious. She will never be gotten rid of either!

Kaetlinv · 08-24-12, 09:22 PM

Im not going to bother with weighing romeo....shes just too little and i doubt she will ever get to a size where i would feel safe breeding her....val will more than make up for it.

huge bugger will shock us all some day....and i already have a boy lined up for her in a few years. Two boys in fact. One who is a 4ft huge male named medusa (another mistaken gender haha) who is my best friends bp. But she and medusa are out is Massachusetts and im on the opposite coast in Washington. But on sunday....ill be getting that precious male pastel that caught my eye <3

Kaetlinv · 09-06-12, 12:00 PM

And she's finished shedding! Her nose is all patched up and no more scuffs on her scales.

Didn't shed in one piece this time, but she still got it all off. I scoured her body to look for any extra pieces but none were found. No retained eyecaps or the tip of the tail. The humidity must have dropped in the middle of the night - she shed somewhere between 4am - 8am, because I was awake at 3:30am for absolutely no reason and she still hadn't shed. Woke up and she's all bright and shiny again.

These are a few pictures of her inside her home, I'll take her out later for outside pictures.

New nose! No scuffs at all, I'm glad that wasn't a permanent issue.

Bright and shiny under her lamp.

I'll take more later.

Kavyrie · 09-06-12, 06:17 PM

Aww she looks great, I love Val <3 And yes Medusa will be one of her boyfriends one day xD They will make awesome babies!

Kaetlinv · 09-06-12, 06:22 PM

Two beautiful normals, huge ones too. Who knows? Maybe they'll make monster sized babies...

Kaetlinv · 09-06-12, 07:11 PM

Prepare for an onslaught... as promised! A post-shed sunlight photo shoot. Some FANTASTIC shots from my phone this time around!

I uploaded 31 of the photos... that was probably 2/3 of them

Will post in the next! This is gonna take a while... lol

Kaetlinv · 09-06-12, 07:26 PM

These are mostly in order from start to finish, too, and she just got prettier the longer I took photos of her!

Just love that speckling she has...

No scuffed nose!

This is pretty close for my phone... later on one photo is closer! Guess the right lighting allowed it to focus better.