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...and getting larger. He may top seven feet before fall.

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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

All should kneel before this most awesome prince!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

How much does he weigh and what do you feed him? Just can't get over how awesome he is! LOL!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Ahnuld eats the better part of a 10 pack of weanling to small rats every two weeks. Don't know exactly how much he weighs but he's somewhere north of 5 lbs.
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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Whatever you are doing you are doing it right! He must be from that line of really huge bulls.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Thanks!

I liken the selection and purchase of Ahnuld to that line from Forrest Gump about "life being like a box of Chocolates, you never know what you're going to get". When I got Ahnuld in 2008, I basically wanted to raise up a male red bull of Kingsville linage. He was a big neonate and I envisioned an adult in the five-six foot range. Well he reached those milestones before his first birthday. Had no way of knowing or forecasting that ahead of time, but John Ginter did relate later that the founder female was a seven footer. At the rate Ahnuld is growing, he may hit that mark this year or next.

I did not put him down that first winter and he kept eating away. Don't remember when I transitioned him over to rats but he was consuming them regularly by May, 2009 when I had a house sitter watching the place while we were away. Ahnuld is definitely a handful these days. Very glad and fortunate to have him.
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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Stately beaast! Nice pics too. Thanks for posting.
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See all my snakes at SerpenTrack.com

Thanks Brad!

I'm sure you have a few sizables of your own. Looking forward to future posts!
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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

My large male northern went off feed for 170 days or so and just got back on. He was 5ft on his 1st birtday and 6ft on his second. Since going off feed he hasn't lost much weight although often active (mate hunting).

He hasn't shed in a long time either so he's pretty dirty looking. One thing that seems to happen to black and whites is that they seem to go in and out of real clean white. ...that's just in my limited experience. Any feedback on that?
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I kept a pair of northern pines back in the 90s for several years. The female was not a clean white to begin with, more of a paste gray/white and the male was a red phase. The substrate that I used at the time (repti-bark) left them dirty looking as they tended to be covered in the fine particles (repti-dust).

I've not used some of the other substrates (aspen, carefresh, etc.) as I prefer cage carpet and the use of multiple hides. They adapted to it well and it keeps them very clean looking. Only one of my six Pits still occasionally burrows under the carpet, the others never do. Easy for the keeper to keep clean too.

The only snake that I now have with any white in its pattern is a California king and the white bands are seemingly always a screaming white, except in pre-shed.
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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Looking good bro. I like the red blotches with lighter orange/red background. Great contrast.

Thanks for sharing pics

Jason

Thanks Jason!

Looking forward to the next round on the GB front!
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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Nice red beast you have there.

i HAVE A 2010 FEMALE BLIZZARD THAT WENT INTO HIBERNATION AT JUST SHY OF 48" AND OVER 500 GRAMS