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Heres my awesome little one...Lana, Shes a Granite Burmese Python 100% het Albino...

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Lana is adorable!! She's got one of the more expressional faces that I've seen on a burm. Look at those cute little eyes! Still a worm though, are you planning to breed her when she's big enough? She'd throw some great babies...I still can't get over those cute little eyes on her! She's so gorgeous.

Sam

Do you ever breed your rats? I currently have 2 litters. My main cage is 4' tall and 2' square divided top to bottom. I use a large rock to keep the 2 separate and there has been a litter in the top and in the bottom. My daughter recently realized the babies have been able to squeeze through a small hole the rock did not cover and they transit between levels. Since they were already mixed she removed the rock to allow them free movement. How will this affect the mothering of the 2 litters by 2 separate mothers? I hear allot of screaching lately and although they're feeders, they're still animals. I told my daughter to separate them and in her 15 year old, your an idiot dad look said, "Dad, there's 26 of them, I don't know who goes where." Any sugs?

Hey Cap, you're in luck! If the babies are fat and healthy, I'd not worry a bit about the, shall we say, mix-up. Mommy rats usually don't care if they are feeding 1 pup or 10. Chances are, the two females rats that had litters know each other's smells (from basically being in the same cage) and won't be too picky about ownership of pups. The screeching you're hearing is going to go on forever. Consider it sibling rivalry. The last litter we had was...11 babies. 8 survived. 3 were boys and they've been together since they were in the womb...and they still fight (they're 9 months old). The older they become, the more you'll notice that the screeching is like talking between them. It's probably the equivilant of "hey! back off! this is my spiggot!" or "mom loves me mostest!" Just cutsie little stuff. However, if you start seeing babies with scratch/bite marks that aren't superficial and draw blood...I'd start being worried. Otherwise, just sit back and relax...before long, they'll start doing stuff like climbing around and bruxxing (chittering) and chasing one another. That's when the real fun begins

Sam

P.S. I don't know whether these are pet rats or for future meals...but now is the time to start holding them if you want them as pets. I started holding my boys when I could still see their milk bellies. The more you handle them now, the more rotten they'll become. My boys put up with me rocking them, blowing on their bellies and have even learned how to give kisses and wave. Good Luck!!

Thanx!

All but one will be food. Why only one? Miracle, it's name, was sent to it's doom just before it's eyes opened. Because it was so small I did not worry about killing it first. My ball python had a much larger P/K rat in the cage and wouldn't touch it so I figured maybe a little movement might intice him. He hit the pup, wrapped around it, the whole event. When he finally let go, he started eating the larger dead rat instead. As he started eating, the pup, Miracle, was still moving. I don't mean twitching, I mean moving. We pulled him out and my wife said he will live to a ripe old age. Any rat that can go through that and live must be a Miracle. We only keep 1 per family member, wife and 2 girls, but my wife said "No harm shall come to this rat!"

DZ

She is going to be a breeder, Shes such a sweetie and such a character!

She is a really nice looking granite. I've seen the ones with the kind of "naked blotches" if you will, and I really don't like the blotchy ones. I like the full body granites. Makes me want to get a granite now. Although Albino Labs are to die for. I think I'm going to need to put an addition on or move into a bigger house to accomodate(sp?) all the Burms I want to add to my collection in the future. } Right now I have two. An Albino Green Male and a Green Het for Albino girl. They are both the sweetest most personable snakes ever. *sigh* I fell in love with Burms when I was a kid(the first snake I ever held was a burm) and they are still my favs. Good Luck with breeding her!
-Cathy
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Cathy Hrusa
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~My Ever-growing herp Collection~
1.0 Albino Green Burmese Python
0.1 Green Het for Albino Burmese Python
1.0 Het for Albino Ball Python
0.1 Bearded Dragon
0.0.3 Normal Leopard geckos
0.0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1 FL Cooter
1.0 Sunburst X Blue Veiled Chameleon