New BP journal and growth log

Hey everyone hope you are all having a great day so far! My name is Luke and I excited to be a soon to be ball python owner. I've kept lizards in the past, and currently have a reef tank. Since I was a kid I always loved snakes, and knew one day I wanted to own one. But my mom never let me get one until I moved out of the house. Well here we are only 1 month into college and since I am out of the house, well its snake time. :p I contacted a local breeder and I will be meeting him Oct 4 to bring home my new baby. Here are some pics he sent me:

http://i.imgur.com/KRMI6FK.jpg
Solo shot
http://i.imgur.com/BYsb225.jpg
Here he is compared to a normal.

He is a male fire, hatched 2014.

With this thread I am hoping to try and keep a record of his growth and development. As well as if I have any questions I will post them on this thread, or possibly start another specific thread if I don't get enough responses.

Here are the items I've gathered so far:
16qt tub with locking lid
UTH and thermostat (in the mail) [Also I bought a 12" by 9" slate of tile from Home depot to attach the UTH and Tstat probe to, that way it will help prevent overheating as well as make the Zoo Med UTH portable when I need to upgrade the tub and not have to risk damaging the integrity of the heater itself]
Paper towels or aspen for substrate (Haven't decided yet)
Digital temp/humidity gauge
sturdy water dish
2 hides
also fake/plastic plants (These are extra from when I had lizards, will be disinfected. I'm not sure if I will use them. Knowing the more stuff I put in the cage, the more I will have to clean)

Things to buy/do:
I need to pick on what substrate to use, while I would love to create a more natural environment with using aspen, just need to see how cost effective it is and see how easy cleaning is compared to paper towels)
Drill holes for ventilation in the tub.
Purchase a gram weigh-er to measure his weekly weight gain.

Thanks for looking!

Luke

I figured its time to give an update, so due to unforeseen circumstances I had to put idea of a snake on hold, which led to the male fire to be put back up to be sold. Last week I got everything figured out again and contacted the same breeder, apparently he had a customer bail out on him and so there was another male fire and female pastel 2014 available. After many hours of thinking I decided to go with the female pastel, and needless to say... I am already in love with this beautiful snake. Without further ado as a proud parents here are some pics of my baby, sorry for the lack of quality. Next time I'll whip out my DSLR and give this little lady a proper photo shoot.

http://i.imgur.com/KbuFivK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Krkmonk.jpg

Thanks for looking!

-Luke

Hey guys, its been a couple months and I wanted to share Charlotte's new growth!

http://i.imgur.com/Apv1KN1.jpg
This was December 11th

http://i.imgur.com/26VRxbz.jpg
And this was January 28th

She is currently "in blue" so in a few days she is going to be looking prettier than ever and I'll be sure to post pics.

thanks for looking, have a great night!

If u flip that scale over there is a button for metric which will give u grams which is easier then lb/oz nice snake tho

I was just about to say that^^
i use the same scale. She is very pretty! Look forward to her post shed photos.

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Originally Posted by michaelt

If u flip that scale over there is a button for metric which will give u grams which is easier then lb/oz nice snake tho

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oh wow, I was having to manually convert it, this is so much nicer haha thank you very much!

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Originally Posted by aLittleLessButter

I was just about to say that^^
i use the same scale. She is very pretty! Look forward to her post shed photos.

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It was a nice cheap little scale, and it was so cheap I didn't feel the need to stress about it being in ounces, but now this is so much more nice. Thank you for the compliment!

As promised here are her post shed pics! I've got a pretty sorry excuse of a light box, I really need to go make a decent one soon.

http://i.imgur.com/LaWwxcj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RoJqByk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/njUTcC1.jpg

She is looking good. I like how the blushing is really starting to pop.