red or flame knee?

[Hairyspider]

I posted this Q. in the thread B.smithi been hiding. The question is this.
The pic attached is of my B.smithi. freshly molted, but does it look more like a flame knee?
If any one has a pic of a sub adult flame knee they could post here, I could compare the two. I've searched the net for pics, but haven't found one yet.

Thank You

William

 

[Phillip]

Auratum has red knees not orange ones. ot looking to be auratum from here.

Phil

 

[Code Monkey]

Also, if you note on the segment following its knees, the yellowish "band" that is present in smithis but absent in the auratum is evident. That's a B. smithi, not an auratum.

 

[Hairyspider]

thanks guys

Ok thanks, At the Sac reptile show they had a smithi mismarked, and it threw me off.

Thanks Again

William

 

[atavuss]

Re: thanks guys

Originally posted by Hairyspider
Ok thanks, At the Sac reptile show they had a smithi mismarked, and it threw me off.

Thanks Again

William

so, they had auratum at the show? I saw the smithis but I did not really look at them. I did get a large supposedly female pulchra. the pulchra was in pre-molt when I got it and was looking ragged. I just went and looked and the pulchra is on its back getting ready to molt right now.
Ed

 

[rosehaired1979]

Awesome Smithi!! We have a 2" one and can't wait till it gets bigger

 

[Hairyspider]

re sac show

well they had a smithi labled flame knee.

Later

William

 

[atavuss]

female smithi

 

[atavuss]

female auratum

 

[Phillip]

To add to the description thing... also on auratum as the pics show the segment down from the knee has a much smaller band than on smithi. Once you've seen them they are easy to tell.

Phil

 

[Code Monkey]

Originally posted by Phillip
To add to the description thing... also on auratum as the pics show the segment down from the knee has a much smaller band than on smithi. Once you've seen them they are easy to tell.

So much smaller that I've never even noticed it before you said they had one (hence me saying they lacked it above). Then I checked out pics I've seen several times before...

Whaddayaknow? It is there :8o

 

[Mojo Jojo]

Originally posted by Hairyspider
I posted this Q. in the thread B.smithi been hiding. The question is this.
The pic attached is of my B.smithi. freshly molted, but does it look more like a flame knee?
If any one has a pic of a sub adult flame knee they could post here, I could compare the two. I've searched the net for pics, but haven't found one yet.

Thank You

William

When I got my B. smithi - large s'ling/small juvie, it looked just like yours. And just like you, I thought that it may have been mislabled. I too thought that it was B. auratum. But sure enough, it molted and WOW - B. smithi indeed.

Click me to see the thread.

Jon