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Well, all is well. She is eating well and seems happy - so im happy.

Here are some soaking pictures. Ive had her for way over a month now and she hasnt shed yet. I know they dont shed near as often as other snakes but i was thinking that when young they would probably do it a little more often.
Anyway, enough of my muttering.

With flash:
Without flash:

And, my new boa. Sweet thing he/she is. Im guessing its a female judging by the tail but i cant be sure. Ill get it probed next week i think just to make sure.Yes, yes, im shamelessly showing off - and damn proud of it.

Judging by the tail, what sex do you guys think it is?

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"From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and i them - and that is eternity."

i really like blood pythons, you have a very nice one, what is there temperment like? what is there max size?

the temperment all depends on the individual but if you have the patients and time to tame it and it will be tame as a kitten. It will strike as a baby doesnt mean its mean its because they are shy animals and are scared of you so they strike to scare you away. But with time and effort it should tame as a kitten mine is tame as a kitten so far

Well, as teg21 said it depends on the snake. They each have their own mood. But ill say this: its been one hell of a joy to work with my blood so far. Mine has never actually struck at me other then in the pet shop when were probing the poor girl.

My snake personally is calm enough. I can take her out for 2-3m now without a problem and she will just sit there. Anything more and she will start moving about so i put her back. Its getting better, when i started handling her 2 weeks ago i could only have her out for about 30 seconds and that was with massive hyper ventilation.

As for size, well scroll down - the females get massive. It depends on the subspieces i think. Im in over my head here i think, im not sure which of the 3 gets the largest. You got Brongersmai which is the true blood(mine is brongersmai), Breistensteini common name borneo short tail bloods and Curtus Curtus (someone correct me if im wrong) which is the black blood. I believe the largest is the brongersmai. Very large females can get to about 7' but thats rare i believe. Usual size is about 5-6 feet - but they get extreemly girthy.

Its of all importance that you get a captive bread snake - i cant stress this enough with bloods. Dont get a wild caught, specially if this is your first blood.

Bloods are special snakes, not only because of their special apperance but they, to me at least, seem smarter then corn snakes.

Anyway, youre better off asking someone like Angel (gogo151) or Kara (KGL), they know a hell of a lot more about bloods then me.

Sometimes the best teacher is expirience. And they have a lot more then me - at least for now.

-Daniel
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"From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and i them - and that is eternity."