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Nice sunny day today so I drug him out for some pics..

hes a beauty....im going to be getting myself a southern when soon enough. how big is he? wut kind of enclosure is he in? how is he as a pet like handling and stuff. ur a lucky person to own such a beautiful animal

He's around 7.5ft now and 2, 3? years old.. IMO a CBB Southern makes a pretty good "pet", but you still have to be aware that the AREN'T ball pythons, and can still deliver a nasty bite. Anubis was my first of 3 scrubs, and was a little POS as a baby.. But you can't be detered by that, and just keep handling them. Now he's a pretty mellow layed back snake, but I still use a hook to pull him out. Right now he's just in a large aquarium, but i'm upgrading to boaphile or visions here soon, as tanks just aren't a good option for large snakes, let alone arboreal ones..

Here's a picture of the only time Anubis has bitten me in his sub-adult life.. Normally, he's the most layed back snake in the world, but on this day, he just didn't want to come off his branches..

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DarkWave Exotics

Currently keeping:
1.2 southern scrub pythons
1.0 reticulated python
1.0 albino burmese python
1.2 jungle carpet pythons
1.0 irian jaya carpet python
0.1 sumatran blood python
1.0 ball pythons
0.1 green anaconda
1.1 emerald tree boas
2.2 colombian redtail boas
1.0 sonoran boa
1.0 cancun boa
1.2 normal and albino whitewater rosy boas
1.1 false water cobras
1.1 greyband kingsnakes
1.1 albino and het chinese beauty snakes
1.2 taiwan beauties
2.1 cornsnakes(Opal, okeetee, anery, stripes)
1.1 albino and multi het emory ratsnakes
0.1 albino checkered gartersnake
1.1 california kingsnakes
0.0.2 tiger leg monkey tree frogs
1.0 paddle tailed newt
0.1 foam nest tree frog
2 bearded dragons
9 leopard geckos
1.1 central american banded geckos
0.1 nile monitor
1.0 savannah monitor
0.1 russian tortoise

and lots of bugs, furry critters, fish and birds

Kestrel,
OMG--he's gorgeous! I'll bet he just hated to have to give up that tree--he looks like the "picture of contentment" in it!
regards,
althea