I just recently got a male Normal retic and I am very excited about it. He is beautiful and very tame. Is about 4 feet long but not very fat. He has not eaten yet because he was fed in his cage at the breeders but i am trting to feed him in a box. So we are working on it. I was wondering if anyone has some helpfull advice for this situation.

P.S also some help on trying to convince my folks to let me keep him would be nice too. I have many other snakes but this one seems to really upset my mother. She is saying she will throw it in the snow soon. I just cant get throught to her that the 25 ft 300lbs snake you see on the discovery channel is not what he is going to be. Help!!!