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Kira the baby alibino burm
- Thread starter ickle_moose
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dionythicus
Kiss My Hearse
Where are you going to house that monster when she's all grown up? LOL
ickle_moose
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Very good question 
Here's her cousin, currently housed by me but soon moving on to better climes:
I've had him for 3 months and he's a yearling, so I'm pretty set for her for a year at least The life she's getting compared with the life she's get if I didn't, I'm pretty stoked and I think she is too. She's already eating so much better than I was lead to expect.
Here's her cousin, currently housed by me but soon moving on to better climes:I've had him for 3 months and he's a yearling, so I'm pretty set for her for a year at least
The life she's getting compared with the life she's get if I didn't, I'm pretty stoked and I think she is too. She's already eating so much better than I was lead to expect.Attachments
DaemoNox
Abyssus abyssum invocat
Burms are bottomless pits, they will eat anything unless something is really wrong.
Actually he is quite small for a yearling, with proper feeding they usually get that size in about 6 months. Dont plan on having a year, you need to have everything planned out as soon as possible (when getting a burm things like that need to be planned out before actually getting it, but I know thats hard when its a rescue). Have its adult enclosure ready before it gets big enough to go in it, do not wait. The sooner the better, its not a snake to improvise as you go with.
Actually he is quite small for a yearling, with proper feeding they usually get that size in about 6 months. Dont plan on having a year, you need to have everything planned out as soon as possible (when getting a burm things like that need to be planned out before actually getting it, but I know thats hard when its a rescue). Have its adult enclosure ready before it gets big enough to go in it, do not wait. The sooner the better, its not a snake to improvise as you go with.
ickle_moose
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Cheers Daemonox, I am readily upgrading as we speak Thankfully I've got quite a lot of tank set-up lying around, plus my lovely pet-store dude who's donating a 75 gl tank in a couple weeks. I'm learning everything I can about this gal asap. For now she's a great eater and very personable. I've had her a few weeks and all is well. Seriously, she's the only one in Taiwan right now and a strip club (which had already managed to kill another one last year) had expressed (dangerous weird 'lets eat her to gain some manlihood') interest, so I ran away with her asap. As I say, I have loads of support with people here who have yearling and adults. I'm just glad she isn't in some mad gangster's pocket!
Edit: I completley forgot to mention (please excuse my dumb blondness), the yearling (his name is Arthur), will not eat at all. EVER. He has been owned by pet-store all his life, and various experiments with feeding in that year have resulted in a 1-10 variation going from 1) oh, he didn't eat today to 10) ok, there's really no way that this guy is going to eat alone. Last I knew he was being force-fed guniea pigs.
Before everyone jumps down my mate's (pet-store dude's) throat, he is just doing what he can to keep this lovely docile beautiful snake alive. He is never going to sell or breed Arthur, he is just a show-snake. I've seen this force feeding process, and to be honest Arthur comes across as completely un-stressed and used to it, while my friend cried at the time as it was so stressful on him. He can only bring himself to do it once every 10ish days, and from where I was standing, I was glad I wasn't him!
Again, I except a few people are going to tell me how horrific this is, but I present the facts as I know them:
Arthur is force-fed once every 10 days, as in all attempts he has never shown any interest in voluntary feeding even to the point where he had to be syringe fed.
Arthur can be seen to be 'waiting' for this feed, changing in behaviour.
He is the most docile snake I have ever come into contact with, which is why the evil strip-club owners wanted Keira, his neice, to grow up and be in their showuke01:
Anyway, all of this means that Keira, the first snake in my post, has plenty of people looking out for her and all the equipment and habitat space she needs to become a lovely healthy massive adult. Obviously I'm totally stoked, free snake while I have the space for her, but when she outgrows me I know that there are better climes for her to graduate to
Thankfully I've got quite a lot of tank set-up lying around, plus my lovely pet-store dude who's donating a 75 gl tank in a couple weeks. I'm learning everything I can about this gal asap. For now she's a great eater and very personable. I've had her a few weeks and all is well. Seriously, she's the only one in Taiwan right now and a strip club (which had already managed to kill another one last year) had expressed (dangerous weird 'lets eat her to gain some manlihood') interest, so I ran away with her asap. As I say, I have loads of support with people here who have yearling and adults. I'm just glad she isn't in some mad gangster's pocket!Edit: I completley forgot to mention (please excuse my dumb blondness), the yearling (his name is Arthur), will not eat at all. EVER. He has been owned by pet-store all his life, and various experiments with feeding in that year have resulted in a 1-10 variation going from 1) oh, he didn't eat today to 10) ok, there's really no way that this guy is going to eat alone. Last I knew he was being force-fed guniea pigs.
Before everyone jumps down my mate's (pet-store dude's) throat, he is just doing what he can to keep this lovely docile beautiful snake alive. He is never going to sell or breed Arthur, he is just a show-snake. I've seen this force feeding process, and to be honest Arthur comes across as completely un-stressed and used to it, while my friend cried at the time as it was so stressful on him. He can only bring himself to do it once every 10ish days, and from where I was standing, I was glad I wasn't him!
Again, I except a few people are going to tell me how horrific this is, but I present the facts as I know them:
Arthur is force-fed once every 10 days, as in all attempts he has never shown any interest in voluntary feeding even to the point where he had to be syringe fed.
Arthur can be seen to be 'waiting' for this feed, changing in behaviour.
He is the most docile snake I have ever come into contact with, which is why the evil strip-club owners wanted Keira, his neice, to grow up and be in their show
uke01: Anyway, all of this means that Keira, the first snake in my post, has plenty of people looking out for her and all the equipment and habitat space she needs to become a lovely healthy massive adult. Obviously I'm totally stoked, free snake while I have the space for her, but when she outgrows me I know that there are better climes for her to graduate to
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Tula_Montage
It's Jager time!
stunning little thing I would love the confindence, experience and space to have a burm Please keep us updated
I would love the confindence, experience and space to have a burm Please keep us updated Roy Munson
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I really like the color scheme on Kira. I don't know anything about burms. Why are she and her cousin so difference in appearance? I always thought the yellow ones were albino. Is there more than one amel in burms?
You burm-folks are crazy, but I applaud you anyway. :grin01:
You burm-folks are crazy, but I applaud you anyway. :grin01:
Roy Munson
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Thanks for the info. That's too bad, in a way. I like the yellow ones, but the "reverse Okeetee" look is very cool.DaemoNox said:
DaemoNox
Abyssus abyssum invocat
Sounds like what happened with that other burm is that he's just too used to being forced fed to take food on his on; which is rather dangerous in its own respect. Imagine gaving to shove a rabbit down a 12 foot snakes throat, and what would happen if/when the snake decides to take things into his own hands (or mouth).
PtDnsr
I like calculus
I know burms aren't supposed to be picky but ours is. When we first got Merlin he would only eat in his cage (which isn't a good thing to start with a snake that will be huge). Once I got him eating out he only eats in a tub with the lid on (aka complete darkness). I can't dangle the food or he gets scared. He takes forever too for some reason. For a while he ate like a pig but he's slowing down a little now and going more to an every two to three week schedule versus the every week schedule. They are fun guys though and yours are pretty.
~Katie
~Katie