The "New Kid" (Pictures!)

Looker of a wee snake you scored there! Have to concur with everyone else on that - and the nice pattern, and killer deal too it sounds.

I stopped by a pet shop this evening after my flute lesson and picked up a pinky for Pip. I requested the smallest they had (and it still looked rather large for him to eat) and dropped it in his enclosure. Even though I've provided a solid hide for him, he seems to prefer hiding under the newspaper, so I dropped the pinky under the newspaper as well. He nosed around it a bit, seeming curious but not inclined to do anything with it, so I laid the newspaper back over them and left them alone (didn't think I had too much to worry about a newborn pinky possibly harming the snake).

When I checked later, no pinky and one slightly fatter baby snake. w00t!

:aww:

Congrats! I am still surprised by the size prey snakes can eat.

yahoo! i don't like people watching me eat either. :wink:

i have to agree with cody on the small snake caring, this is the reason i am still skiddish about getting a kenyan sand boa but that is still a very beaitful snake. i have never seen a snake of that kind but it is beautiful. congrats

Well, he seems to be doing fine so far. He took his second pinkie tonight, and while he hasn't exactly been an active and entertaining snake to watch, he does look healthy and well fed so far. I wouldn't be surprised to have a shed out of him in the next week or so...

Awesome! Good luck with him.
A herp store in Cincinnati has Kenyans with a small Critter Keeper and a few other things for $65. While I'm not so hot on keeping the snake in such a small enclosure, their Kenyans were beautiful. Ben had to drag me out of the store so I wouldn't get any ideas. ;)

CUTE! Watch your fingers - they act like retics when it's time to eat!

K

Heh. Don't think I'll be getting one any time soon....no more room for snakies, plus I think my boyfriend's feeling like he's being usurped by serpents. ;)

Yeah, one of the care sheet pages I looked at mentioned that they can be aggressive feeders, and once they've gotten the smell of prey, they'll strike at darn near anything that moves. At this point, he's so small I don't think he could do anything if he did strike at me, but no point in letting him set a precedent...