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A one track mind!

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  • 01-26-2017, 11:02 PM
    Reinz
    Re: A one track mind!
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy View Post
    @ Reinz- Thanks bud. .................. They're both in QT. I'm figuring he'll end up in a 6x2 as an adult.

    That's what I was thinking if I go for an Olive as well. :)
  • 01-26-2017, 11:33 PM
    Gio
    Re: A one track mind!
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy View Post
    @ Gio- I thought you knew about the Olive. I posted a thread the day he arrived 3 weeks ago. I got the albino carpet a week later. You must have missed it :). I was really close to buying a SD retic but after seeing those pics of John's Papuan critter I was smitten. I don't see many folks keeping this species so I decided to take the road less traveled. I'm very happy with him so far. He's only bitten me once. :)

    OUTSTANDING!

    You went Aussie VS Papuan correct?


    I'll have to search the thread and check it out.

    Apologies as I have not been too active on the boards.

    I love my retic, but I am really convinced pythons from Australia are incredible.

    I would not let the snakes "play" together in the company of that olive LOL!

    I've read more than a couple of stories about missing snakes after being out or caged with olives.
  • 01-26-2017, 11:52 PM
    Sauzo
    Enjoy it while you can lol. Later the wanting food all the time will become a chore haha. Freakin Caesar wants food 24/7. I just fed him a big quail 2 days ago and today while I was cleaning poop from the cage under his, he was glued to the front door rubbing his face all over it. When I stood up, he tagged the door, then I guess he saw a shadow thrown from me in the cage and tagged the air. So I opened the door and rubbed his head with his twisted paper towel and he went in his hide and poked his head out and sat there lol.

    I'm convinced I like that Olive more than the carpet lol. If I wasn't lined up to get me a Pucallpa BCC from Vin Russo or Joel Diaz later this year, an Olive would be a prime candidate but I'm a boa guy at heart. Plus if I can swing 2 more spots(yeah right), I want to get a female Snow BCI to go with my new little Hypo het snow BCI boy and maybe try my hand at making snow glows in a few years :)
  • 01-27-2017, 12:10 AM
    EL-Ziggy
    Re: A one track mind!
    Yeah Gio, my guy is of the Australian persuasion. We both love those Aussie pythons :). Once I got turned on to carpets there really wasn't any looking back for me. I've got a coastal, Bredli, albino, and 2 jungles. The olive was a no brainer for me after I saw John's Papuan. If you read that thread you'll see I immediately started asking questions about their size and care. The seed just grew from there. You're right about their feeding habits. They don't play nice with other snakes :( . I've read about and seen videos of wild olives eating incredibly large prey items like wallabies and crocs. They're not as big as burms or retics, which are probably a little too much snake for me, but they're still big, beautiful, ferocious beasts. They're a very fascinating species to me. :)
  • 01-27-2017, 12:29 AM
    EL-Ziggy
    Re: A one track mind!
    @ Sauzo- That snow glow project sounds awesome! I just Googled some images. Best wishes in that endeavor. I think boas are beautiful snakes too. It was basically a coin toss between a sunglow boa and the SD retic until I saw the olive and decided to try something a little different. :)
  • 01-27-2017, 11:07 AM
    Gio
    Re: A one track mind!
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy View Post
    Yeah Gio, my guy is of the Australian persuasion. We both love those Aussie pythons :). Once I got turned on to carpets there really wasn't any looking back for me. I've got a coastal, Bredli, albino, and 2 jungles. The olive was a no brainer for me after I saw John's Papuan. If you read that thread you'll see I immediately started asking questions about their size and care. The seed just grew from there. You're right about their feeding habits. They don't play nice with other snakes :( . I've read about and seen videos of wild olives eating incredibly large prey items like wallabies and crocs. They're not as big as burms or retics, which are probably a little too much snake for me, but they're still big, beautiful, ferocious beasts. They're a very fascinating species to me. :)

    Well, I hope my retic stays smaller than 10'.

    I was almost set on an olive but thought their size would be larger than the dwarf x SD retic so I opted to go with the retic.

    I'm not sure olives are arboreal in the slightest which is another characteristic I want in my snakes. I'm sure they climb a bit though.

    I'm going to hunt that thread down now.
  • 01-27-2017, 11:22 AM
    EL-Ziggy
    Re: A one track mind!
    Gio- Olives are semi-arboreal. My guy spends most of his time off the ground but I've also seen him burrow into his substrate too which my carpets never do.
  • 02-01-2017, 12:45 AM
    pbyeerts
    Re: A one track mind!
    Glad that I'm not the only one with PNG olive python fever! That snake was amazing!


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  • 02-09-2017, 06:13 PM
    Gio
    I liked this little video.

    Figured I'd post it here in your thread since you have one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGmYxr793qs
  • 02-09-2017, 06:36 PM
    Reinz
    Re: A one track mind!
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Gio View Post
    I liked this little video.

    Figured I'd post it here in your thread since you have one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGmYxr793qs

    Man, that got me even more pumped or an Olive!!
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