lol i know most of you are too busy to care about my general ramblings, but screw it- ill post for the sheer fun of posting..lol..
i hope everyone hatches what they hoped for, or gets really great surprises.
i wish i could say that i had a girl ready to pop/eggs hatching. but i didnt get a breeder sized girl until here recently, so ill be in the mix next year- i hope. i got this girl, whom I have named Shadow, from the lady at work. a few of you might remember me asking how hard it might be to switch her over from live to f/t. i was so nervous that i would have to work with her on that. but nope. she ate it like a champ 
shes 4-5 yrs old, i am told. and have almost always eaten live. i see a few little scars on her that i dont know if they are from live food or from other reasons, but she seems pretty healthy thus far. i havent had a chance to get pics of her yet as we are just getting used to each other. i hope to get a few on Thursday or so...
for those wondering- i just followed the general new snake practice of letting her be for a few days and then handling her for only a few minutes. and then i gave her a few days to settle and then i handled her again, for only about 5 minutes.trying to let her know that she is safe but not ignored or forgotten. lol
so she had been here for over a week before she got food. she had gone around 3 weeks since her last feed. and boy she was ready. i wiggled the dead rat around like it was shaking with fear. i kind of bumped it on the ground near her a time or so, and another moment of "shaking with fear" and she snapped it. then after i put the lid on i turned the light off and left her undisturbed to eat.
and then...i had noticed my big boy was getting darker, so i gave him extra spritzing, knowing he was going through a shed cycle. sure enough. last night he did a fairly complete shed- a little bit tore from the rest, but the entire body was in one piece. so of course, i took out all the shed and the pooh and fed him tonight. i love the way they feel anyways, but i especially love the way a snake feels after they have shed.
so all the kids are eating, and growing, and seemingly healthy and happy too, i hope.
the little boy, zenith seems to have outgrown his favorite hide box. i think that may be what is producing his bent scales. i have taken it away from him but he has other hide spots. he still fit in it, but it was a tight fit. i will see if i can find or make him one that is slightly bigger.
i wish i had more exciting news that that. but im just happy that everyone is doing well. every day good news is just as good as once in a while good news. LOL..i hope to start getting a few morphs soon, as all of mine seem to be normals. shadow, though, looks more like a axanthic, and butterball i have questioned if he is a yellow belly, but still...all SEEM to be normals. there are a few morphs i hope to start getting...*sigh* i need to win the lottery....lol
as i said....BEST OF LUCK TO ALL...AND GREATEST OF HEALTH TOOOO...
tc and sorry for the long boring post 
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0.1 russian tortoise (natasha)
3.1 dogs (church, bandit, willy and tonka)
1.2 cats (taz, squeaky, cami)
0.1 king snake (q aka curly q or queenie)
2.2 'normal' ball pythons (zenith, butters, zahara, and shadow)
