Cinder Lava Stripe, First Shed

[Nanci]

It's too hot to take her outside. Here she is!!

 

[MysticExotics]

Beautiful!

 

[Giga]

What a lovely girl!

 

[DLena]

Nanci, you take such artistic photos. Lovely snake.

 

[crackerhead]

Congrats! What a great looking animal.

Terri

 

[Nanci]

Thank you! I just have nice china...

 

[Nanci]

She ate!! Boiled, covered. So did everyone else but one. One is getting a reheat.

 

[DLena]

Things are going so well! Congratulations.

 

[Nanci]

The hold out didn't eat boiled on the first or second try, but it was time for bed, and I was going to reheat and then leave her overnight, so I had her in my hand, and held out the pink, and she reached out and bit it, and dropped it, then latched onto my thumb, then I held out the pink again and she took it and swallowed as I walked around the house with her. No teasing at all! I don't anticipate feeding issues with her...

 

[DLena]

She just wanted her mommy to hold her in case the big bad pinky tried anything dastardly.

 

[Nanci]

I'm pretty happy!! The post-shed weights on these guys ranged from 5.6 (the big one!!) to 4.0. 4 gram babies always seem so tiny- like how can I ever find something small enough to feed, but they all just ate regular day-old reds, the smallest ones hand picked out of a bag of 100. They were fed boiled, slit, in delis, covered, in the dark. Now next time they'll probably get boiled, slit, uncovered, in light. Then next time, just thawed, unslit. Then back to thawed, slit. I just like them to be eating plain thawed pinks with no alterations when they are ready to go, but I like slitting the pinks for better digestion.

 

[DLena]

Babies are a lot of TLC, no matter what the species may be.

 

[steve roylance]

Congrats Nanci!!!!