Final Adjustments

     The Fourth Installment of the Reptile Rack has been completed! I added, the lights, the heat, a door, new carpets and I did a little experiment with some left over Acrylic sheets.  Basically, I super-glued some pieces together to make a clear tray that both lines the shelf, and works as a guide for the sliding door.  I really could have done it better; using better glue for instance...and my measuring is a bit off, but I think its working just fine.
     If all goes well, I will make more for the other shelves since those critters are so messy.  Chouji the corn snake has a bad habit of pooping up the side of the wall....when he isn't pooping in the water dish.  I swear that guy can be a pain in the ass.  I HAVE ENOUGH THINGS TO CLEAN AS IT IS!

                                         
                                                                                     The 4th BP enclosure
   
The new guy is settling in, but doing what most new pythons do, hiding in a corner.  The rest of my snakes become active and curious whenever I clean their cages like I did today.

                                         
                                                                                       Someone got brave

Meet The Fresh Prince

BUH BAM!
My new male!  I jut got him yesterday and he doesn't have a name yet!  He's a Coral Glow / Mojave and possibly het for Axanthic.  He's  1 year old, 220 grams, and pretty cool with being handled.  (I will limit my handling for the time being, its best not to hold a new python until it has settled and started eating.)



I think I prefer the look of a CG rather than a CG/Moj but for breeding purposes, i really wanted something that would give me a lot of combos since I'm only breeding on a small scale anyway.
Anyway, I think he's super pretty!  By breeding this guy to Lucy the Lesser, I could end up with normals, lessers, mojaves, coral glows, lesser/coral glows, more coral glow/mojaves.
It can also produce a lesser/mojave or lesser/mojave/coral glows.  (Results in Blue eyed Leucistics )


                                       (Random Blue eyed leucistic photo)

That's right, you heard me correctly, THAT purple/yellow thing + Lucy (brown and black) can make THIS  white thing.
But I'm a long way off from actually getting any hatchlings.  Just going to sit back and enjoy my new pets for a while and hope they take on some weigh for the next breeding season.

Bindi Gains Weight and Lucy Starts Eating

It took 6 months for Lucy to calm down enough to finally eat.  I eventually taped a paper bag to the front of her terrarium so she'd have some privacy.  I've yet to get her to eat FT, or even a real rat for that matter.  I only got her to eat one live mouse, and then two live mice the next week.  I'm going to try to get her eating a small live rat and hopefully move her onto FT rats next.  

Gasp!  Who's That Beauty!?

Those Colors!

That Pattern!

It's Princess Bindi!

With the last few sheds, her pinky-tan color has changed.  Now her belly is a crisp white and those speckley bits on her back make the yellow look a little green even.

                                                             Chubby Princess Bindi

Bindi Is a year old now, and 205 grams.  She took a while to gain weight because her feeding schedule was to be fed every week, but on the 4th week, she'd go off feed for 5 whole weeks!

Now that I feed her only once every two weeks, she is quite hungry and eats every time.  She gained 100 grams in the last 4 months, 50 of which were in the last 4 weeks!  She's now eating the same size rodents as my 10 year old Corn snake Chouji.  Yay Growth Spurt!

I'm Hoping Lucy will come around and gain some weight too so that I can finally breed her to an awesome male.