Pat the baby biak green tree python

Yes you can really tell he's growing now,I love it when they start giving attitude around feed time when your late giving it them

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Originally Posted by richardhind1972

Yes you can really tell he's growing now,I love it when they start giving attitude around feed time when your late giving it them

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The boas and gtp and dumerils are cute when they get hungry. Caesar just finds ways to annoy me when he is hungry lol. The glass doors dont work anymore so now it is shoving the hide around or thumping the shelf all night long..../sigh

Pat nice and full with a small hopper mouse and using a pothos leaf as a pillow lol.
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So I am using my day off to clean everyone's cages and i think all the commotion got Pat worked up and he thinks food is coming lol. Usually the little booger sleeps during the day with his head shoved between the bottom of the dowel and his coils lol.
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And on another note, talked to Ali and she said they got the RHP from Bob and should have my cage shipped out next this week. Got the perch holders and elevated water bowl holder ordered from S3D and will just need to pick up the silk and plastics plants. Going to just use 1/2 oak dowels temporarily until i can talk to Manzanita Burlworks about some manzanita branches for perches.

So exciting can on wait to see how you set it up your enclosures always look magnificent, along with your fabulous critters. :gj:

Pat being Pat.....
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Pat looks awesome. Is he USCB?

My guy I got a while ago is a farmed import, and hates everything. I'm thinking he's going to do better in a small dark tub instead of modified exoterra. So I'll be setting that up today.

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Originally Posted by PiperPython

Pat looks awesome. Is he USCB?

My guy I got a while ago is a farmed import, and hates everything. I'm thinking he's going to do better in a small dark tub instead of modified exoterra. So I'll be setting that up today.

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Thanks. Pat is an import too but he is so laid back. I had the door open at night a few nights ago and looked over to find Pat outside the cage perched half on top of the open door of his Zoo Med cube and his head and top half of his body sitting on top of the light dome. He was just looking around and being curious. I went over there and he just looked at me and i used my finger like a stick and scooped his front half up and pointed his head back inside the cage at the front perch and he crawled onto it and sat there lol.

I think i got lucky. I can even reach in next to Pat and change his water and he just looks at my hand and flicks his tongue. You can tell when he gets hungry as he will get MUCH more curious at any movement in the cage like when i move a plant or put my hand in there but he never strikes. Even with food, he has to check it out first to make sure it is food, then he just grabs the mouse by the head, drops down and coils it, and then eats. He is such a polite eater unlike Caesar or the boas who are like "OMG FOOD!!! GIMME!!!!" and go bonkers.

I also think it has to do with some with how the snake is raised. I never really messed with Pat when he was settling in and more or less let him come to me on his terms. So i think it made him much more relaxed if that makes sense. I did it with all my other snakes too and now i can more or less just reach in and grab anyone and they dont care. If they dont want to be bothered, they just try and wander off lol. Pat though will hiss at me if he is having one of those days when i mess with him. Kind of funny to hear this little tiny snake hiss back when he was a baby. Now he is actually getting pretty big and is about 1.5 times the length of his 18x18x18 cube now. Ali was supposed to ship Pats new 2x2x2 cube out last week but no go. Maybe this coming week as they got the RHP from Bob and everything.

Man, I am jealous. I would love to have a good relationship with Jester, but I don't think he's ever going to calm down. He doesn't even have days where he's not pissed off. He just hisses and then starts striking once he wakes up. His new thing is to strike, coil his prey, then drop it just to get me away from him (it seems).

I'm afraid you might be right about the disturbance. Because I harassed him a bit while fixing around his enclosure a few times, and he's just probably had :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ty scary interactions with me the whole time. I never really knew how a baby would be, but between him and my neonate ETB, I don't think I'll ever purchase a baby snake again.

Anyways, I enjoy following Pat's progress, so keep us informed!

Well, i got Pats AP cage and got it kind of set up. Still need to add substrate and need to call the manzanita wood place on my day off and see about some perches. Also still deciding on if i want to hang a plant from the open space on the right side and am thinking of adding a Dracenae to the plants on the ground to give some height. But overall, i think Pat is pretty happy. He spent about an hour exploring everywhere and then dropped a huge deuce on the floor in the front of the cage and now is back to being my 'ball python on a stick'.
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