A dream made real, Mira the Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake

Yeah, that worked out great! Happy "accident"-:D

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Originally Posted by Snagrio

Also going to try and figure out a sky hide for her, one that I can easily access and remove if needed. I've got some ideas on how to go about that though.

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Well, if you're ever looking for a way to put in a sky hide that's kind of a pain to access and remove don't hesitate to PM me.

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Originally Posted by Homebody

Well, if you're ever looking for a way to put in a sky hide that's kind of a pain to access and remove don't hesitate to PM me.

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I know you can just screw the rims of a hide upside down on the ceiling, which is what I'm trying to avoid since you'd have to unscrew it every time if access is needed. I have ideas ranging from getting more lipped L brackets and putting them right at the edge of the ceiling and flipping a hide over to rest its rims over, with juuuust enough room to lift and slip the hide out if needed. Or have the hide right side up and have a shelf underneath it on drawer tracks so I can slide the shelf out and access from underneath. I'll figure something out when I have the time.

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Originally Posted by Snagrio

I know you can just screw the rims of a hide upside down on the ceiling, which is what I'm trying to avoid since you'd have to unscrew it every time if access is needed. I have ideas ranging from getting more lipped L brackets and putting them right at the edge of the ceiling and flipping a hide over to rest its rims over, with juuuust enough room to lift and slip the hide out if needed. Or have the hide right side up and have a shelf underneath it on drawer tracks so I can slide the shelf out and access from underneath. I'll figure something out when I have the time.

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If I understand you correctly, then I went the L bracket route and left aaaalmost enough room to lift and slip the hide out. I could make it easier to remove, but it would feel a little less secure. I only remove it during my monthly clean out, so adjusting it is not high priority.

Mira just keeps changing how I think with snakes. I'm so used to looking under things that the last place I thought to look was up.
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And another thing that I keep failing at is to not helicopter too much. Was so focused on finding her to see how she was doing after her first meal in the new digs that I (lightly) bumped one of the cork bark pieces on top of her, I felt so terrible... Shouldn't have been poking around the day after she ate as it is but my worry on where she was overtook rational. :sigh2:

Really should've expected her to be there anyway since that's the warmest platform right under the RHP, exactly where she'd want to digest.

That is a bit different from ground dwellers like BPs- many rat snakes are semi-arboreal & love to climb- that's partly what I love about them, including their more out-going nature & activity level.

Congratulations on your beautiful new girl! 😍

Had to make an adjustment. She had been inside the biggest bamboo stump for about 3 days and I was getting concerned that she couldn't get out, so I carefully took the piece out to tip over (really glad I made everything movable) and plugged it off with chunks of cork bark and super glue like I already did with the other two stalks for the same reason. She probably wasn't really stuck and just felt comfy/safe in there, but I was inevitably going to have to do this anyway because I'm sure it was only a matter of time before she truly DID get stuck as she grew in size, which she is doing, quickly.
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On a lighter note, she and Hoco had their first hopper mice tonight (with bonus pinkies since I've still got all of those to go through).

Behold, a blue blue beauty. :rofl:
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My little queen out of a fresh shed. :wuv:
(There's a light reflecting off her cheek in the second pic in case it looks like scale damage, I thought it was an injury too when I first looked at it).
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She did bite me again, but it entirely my own fault. She was hiding in one of her floor hides which she doesn't usually do so I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find her in the first place, and then I brought her upstairs so my dad could see her, and having another person in front of her got her upset enough. Lesson learned.

Worst part is I was explaining to my dad how calm and handleable she has been compared to her species' reputation, only for her to nip my hand seconds after as if to prove a point. :rofl: