I worked in a Pet store....for my birthday asked dh for a mexican milk. He comes in to meet the snake (we had other colubrids at home) and looks at this 4 ft female BP. She is the problem child of the store. Hadn't eaten the whole 7 months she was there. WC. What she had going for her was that she was sweet and a sheer flirt. My dh says, what's this? I get her out and she is inside his shirt, up in his hair.......total slut. We get both snakes.

Month later she is settled. Trying everything with her and she finally takes a F/T gerbil late at night with all the lights out....for me. She only has eaten 4 months of the year for the nearly three years I have had her. And she went from 2.5 to 3.5 in the first year.

Then we get in a shipment of baby wc bps....covered in ticks. (high class place...note, I am a former employee) One is very goldy and has half gold eyes and I like. Take home, probe, thinking male, but I am new at probing then, not sure. But cool, eventually I will have a pair. He/it takes a month and a half to adjust and finally takes fuzzys(because of intimidation,not sheer size).......now, a year later is up to 40gram rat pups prekilled or F/T.

Then a freind says, gee, he has this male that is adult and wc and given to him because it wouldn't eat and all. He trys the gerbils after months all summer of not eating. It eats them and sometimes deigns to take scented rats. But he has other projects and offers me the big guy, "since you already have gerbils for Urbi"

So I have Bull. He does two things....eats gerbils (so far no luck with scenting yet this spring) breeds the heck out of Urbi this winter...and three.....poops! He is sweet too, and heavy as a tank. Was over 4 pounds last winter and haven't weighed him since he broke fasting/and breeding. But when I cleaned his cage he felt like iron.

So, I guess I am into BPs now. I don't see myself buying more....and certainly not the $$$$ morphs. But I won't be getting rid of these either.
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Sonya

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• How did everyone here get into BPs? - MightyPython, Thu Jun 19 07:36:23 2003
• I Went In The Pet Store Just To Get Some Parrot Food..... - AdiHoile, Thu Jun 19 07:59:22 2003
• RE: How did everyone here get into BPs? - Naara, Thu Jun 19 09:10:20 2003
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• RE: How did everyone here get into BPs? - Turtlegirl, Thu Jun 19 14:35:49 2003
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