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Hey everyone, I'm pleased to be part of this killer snake family now. I've been on this site for a year or so and started the snake hobby with Kingsnakes. I love my kings to death, but I've been wanting to go bigger for a while. I thought about a Ball Python, but yesterday at the Reptile show that me and my girlfriend went to, we found this. She's a 4 month old Sumatran Red blood (as I'm sure you guys know)and we named her "Keona", persian word for "God's gracious gift." So tell me what all of you guys think about her.

Also, I'm TRYING to keep the humidity up to around 80-85 but I find it hard to maintain a high humidity. Any suggestions? Oh yeah, and she's a bit nippy right now. From all that I've read, with frequent handling, they'll grow to be great pets right? In the last pic, she just got done eating, even though she's a baby, it's AMAZING the strength of these animals. They also have a totally different style of attack on their prey than my Kingsnakes. Sorry for the newby-ish comments, but I'm just getting warmed up here, tryin' to learn as much as I can as fast as I can. On that note, any comments or suggestions on ANYTHING Blood python related is MUCH appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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1.0 Goini
0.1 Hypo. Floridana

Congrats on getting a blood! You won't be disappointed.
80-85% Humidity really isn't necessary. 70% should be good and is much more easy to maintain. You can mist the cage and bump up humidity a day or two before a shed to help out in that area.
Most blood babies will calm down very easily and stop being so nippy. Make sure you give it time to settle in without you bothering it, and then get it out for short peroids of handling. If it's really nippy, and tough to handle, just set it in your lap while you watch TV for about 15-20 minutes, not bothering it at all, and then put it back in the cage and do the same thing the next day. Once they get used to your scent and realise you're not a threat they will be much more calm. I did this with two very nippy babies and after having them out two times they had completely stopped striking and now they are both super sweet.
There are some pretty good caresheets out there for bloods, but this is also a good place to ask specific questions. check out vpi.com, newenglandreptile.com, and proexotics.com for some caresheets.

Thank you very much for the feedback, it means a lot. I love this snake, even though she's quite temperamental, but she's just a baby, so I'm sure it'll get better. I'll take your advice and I'll also take a look at the websites you listed. Thanks again.

Any other comments would be much appreciated.
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1.0 Goini
0.1 Hypo. Floridana

60% humidity is recommended for bloods.

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