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Colonel Slithers Jun '08 Abbott's Okeetee - Progression Thread!

The Colonel weighed in at 72 grams today and 26" long. Growing nicely... I guess he is technically a yearling now.

I am up to feeding him an 8 g hopper & 4 g fuzzy now for dinner, since he falls within the "9-12 g" range on the Munson plan.

After hoppers, I'm not sure where to find weanlings. I may have to just keep feeding him two food items to get the proper weight. Petco doesn't have many choices, and I don't know where else I can go to just buy, say, 5 or 10 of a food item instead of bulk (ie 50).

Here are a few pics, cause what is an update without pictures!

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Nice pics!
Unfortunately, I am having the same problem as you with finding the weanlings!
My petco only carries pinks, fuzzies, and adults.
Today I went to a local fish/reptile store to get some mice, and I gave him a list of what I needed, one of them being a weanling...well I get rung up and as I'm walking out I was looking at the receipt and noticed they gave me a weanling RAT! I was like yikes I don't have anything that can eat this! So I had to get a small adult instead...(And the prices at both that store and petco are outrageous! I paid $22 today for 7 pinks, 2 hoppers, and 1 small adult!...and that's just enough to feed my snakes for one week!) I can't wait till I am finally able to order from some place like RodentPro!
But yeah, sorry I kinda went off track...didn't mean to hijack or anything!
Your snake is looking mighty good! I esp. like the first picture with him poking his head out of the top of his substrate!

Thanks for the update!
:cheers:
 
admitchell08 said:
Nice pics!
Unfortunately, I am having the same problem as you with finding the weanlings!
My petco only carries pinks, fuzzies, and adults.
Today I went to a local fish/reptile store to get some mice, and I gave him a list of what I needed, one of them being a weanling...well I get rung up and as I'm walking out I was looking at the receipt and noticed they gave me a weanling RAT! I was like yikes I don't have anything that can eat this! So I had to get a small adult instead...(And the prices at both that store and petco are outrageous! I paid $22 today for 7 pinks, 2 hoppers, and 1 small adult!...and that's just enough to feed my snakes for one week!) I can't wait till I am finally able to order from some place like RodentPro!
But yeah, sorry I kinda went off track...didn't mean to hijack or anything!
Your snake is looking mighty good! I esp. like the first picture with him poking his head out of the top of his substrate!

Thanks for the update!
:cheers:
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yeah what are we people without tons of snakes supposed to do for food?!?

$22 is ridiculous for what you got there.

my petco has hoppers, but what i just found out with this scale is that the mice i've been feeding are on the small side.
 
I told ya that you'd love an Abbott's from Lee! Aren't they just the most beautiful snakes? I am so happy he is doing well and looking AWESOME!!! Hmmm...I think mine is due a photoshoot!!!
 
For Admitchell08, you need to go by Fish Pros. They have several sizes of mice. While definitely not cheaper than mail order (probably quite a bit more expense), I buy all my mice from them for the convenience of being able to select the size I want.

Alan
 
Oooh guess who just shed again?!

Here is the Colonel pre & post shed...he is officially now a yearling & weighed in a few weeks ago at about ~80 g.

I tried to put him in a blue bowl, but not many pics came out since he was so squirmy!

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He's too heavy to be able to get across this without falling, yet he continuously tries:
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Gorgeous, just gorgeous!!!

I need to get some good ones of Flash. Getting the lighting right makes all the difference. That blue bowl was a pretty good trick too.
 
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