13 is a VERY lucky number!

Thanks for all your great replies folks! I love sharing this kind of happy stuff here. For our family, since we don't have many "snake" friends that live close to us offline, it's a real joy to have all of you online that understand how much this snake doing well really means. Some of our friends I think would probably roll their eyes at this news and think "gawd there go Mike and Joanna talking about crazy snake stuff again" LOL

I'll get some pictures of Danu tomorrow I promise. :)

Oh and here's what ASF's (african soft furred rats) look like. They are sort of in between regular rats and mice in size. I think an adult ASF is about 2 times or more heavier than an adult mouse. I read somewhere that some folks think they may be the evolutionary link between mice and the "true" rats. They are, however as far as I know, classed as a rat, not a mouse.

Here's one of our breeding trio's........
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...FTrioAug07.jpg

For an idea on size, here's Big Momma one of our breeder adult ASF's. She's carrying a litter in this photo but not yet really huge with it yet. Sorry the pictures so blurry, they are REALLY fast rats and I think she wanted to eat my darn dollar bill!....
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ereference.jpg

Well as promised I snapped a couple of pictures of Danu early this morning. Let me tell you she was rather unimpressed with the whole business, likely having just gone to sleep when I hauled her out of her hide for a quick photo shoot. My odd sense of humor often wonders if in these circumstances the snake is thinking..."stupid big heat emitter, doesn't know it's time for bed! course what do you expect from something so stupid it doesn't even eat rats! hisssssssssssssssssssssss" :D

Anyways, here's Danu - growing, gaining weight and starting to look like a proper adult female.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...DanuMar081.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...DanuMar082.jpg

Definitely an improvment, and what a hottie to boot!

Thanks Christie! We do like her looks and she's definitely starting to look in better shape. Still a bit more triangular than I like to see a mature female look like but the way she's snarfing down ASF's every week should take care of that issue in good time. :)

Awesome job -
BT

Yay, go Danu! :gj: