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Last night was day 8 since last meal and she wasn't even out and about, so I haven't offered. If she's still quiet tonight I'll probably wait until Friday at the latest. She's still young and needs food... just not that much lol. I'm going to base almost everything on body condition from here on out, not so much weight.
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We ate on Friday, and Maze spent Thursday actively hunting for food, so it was definitely time
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That last one is either hilarious or disturbing and I honestly can't decide which...
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We had a slight crisis with the water bottle
idk why but this made me laugh so much hahahaha. cute pictures! :aww:
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idk why but this made me laugh so much hahahaha. cute pictures! :aww:
It is pretty funny in hindsight. She didn't want to move once she was coiled around the handle, so I had to rub her sides and tail to get her moving.
Meanwhile, Maze : "Mom, stop rubbing my butt :cccc"
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Amazing how much she and Booplesnoop look alike. Two beautiful queens!
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What a beautiful, inquisitive little one.
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She does look a bit like ol' Boople!
Thanks! I picked her for her beauty, and I love her for her character. She's got quite the personality for a species that's known for doing a whole lot of nothing.
I cleaned and rescaped her tub today. First photo minus plants and rocks, second with. The rest are 'close-ups' and some shots of Maze snoozing in various positions. She has the option of belly heat in her hide but still chooses to climb and bask.... I think my BP's broken lol!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...eb87b58e0b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3a4ba47267.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...04e8f84ffa.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0f3138883d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d003ac00fe.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...70642c7ca6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3e80243982.jpg
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Where did you find that little log bridge?
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beautiful. :gj:
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Where did you find that little log bridge?
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Amazon, in the small pets section. There's a lot of cool stuff to sort through; I've considered buying a ferret hammock lately.
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W5TLA4O?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf
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Mine does the same, she would rather climb her little tree to bask, so mines broken to...
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Mine does the same, she would rather climb her little tree to bask, so mines broken to...
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Maze is always doing stuff like that. If you provide it, they will use it.
Out at 1am, proving my point lol.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...79c8f063da.jpg
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I wish more people would put branches in with their Royals as they will make full use of them ... ...
I hate those posts you see occasionally see , saying their Royal has a hide and water dish but it doesn't do anything but stay in the hide all the time ... Aghhhhhh !!!!
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I wish more people would put branches in with their Royals as they will make full use of them ... ...
I hate those posts you see occasionally see , saying their Royal has a hide and water dish but it doesn't do anything but stay in the hide all the time ... Aghhhhhh !!!!
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Oh yes they will, all 6 beeps of mine use theirs nowwwww when they get larger Ima have to get bigger ones lol but I’m sure that’s not for a while
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I wish more people would put branches in with their Royals as they will make full use of them ... ...
I hate those posts you see occasionally see , saying their Royal has a hide and water dish but it doesn't do anything but stay in the hide all the time ... Aghhhhhh !!!!
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Ironically enough, I did pick up some branches during the week for this very purpose. I think one has bugs, and it's too big to fit in the oven, so we're gonna try a bleach bath on them.
Here's some of the branches for something that might be happening in a few months. Maze's are a lot bigger and sturdier-looking. Just don't have a nice pic at the moment.https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...0814ab809e.jpg
i wonder what this could be for :hmm:
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She’s growing so nicely. Her setup is awesome too!
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She’s growing so nicely. Her setup is awesome too!
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Thanks!
Not really much going on over here right now. She's in shed!
Was going to upload photos but it keeps saying 'upload failed'.... oh, well.
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If you zoom in on her nose, I think you'll see her shed just starting to come off.....
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looks like it to me!!!
reminds me of my pic of Pumpkin:
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Wow! Nice shot!
Maze shed a few days ago! Pretty girl :').
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Unfortunately, we have new neighbors who just so happen to be heavy smokers. I have an air filter in my room (which is where Maze's enclosure is), but it kind of sucks in general :/. We're moving out of this complex in a year, but this has kind of made us want to move a year sooner. We'll see what happens I guess.
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After about 2.5 months we finally got an empty weight. Like, poop is gross and all, but it was the size of something I'd expect from a standard dachshund, not a 404g ball python lmao.
She also met some new people yesterday, and while shy at first, she was pretty quick to get explorin' and sniff the new friends. No pics, because my hands were full, but this definitely made me feel a lot better after the Handling Disaster that was the last person that stopped by to meet her.
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What happened last time someone handled her?
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Someone besides me, to clarify. This happened a little over a month ago. The girlfriend of a guy I know is interested in snakes, and we'd chat about Maze every time I'd see her at work. I eventually invited her over to meet Maze. We'll call her A.
For reference, I'd never had anyone over that liked snakes before this, and didn't really know what to say before it happened to prevent this. Common sense, probably should have known. Most folks that come over are curious, but not curious enough to stick their hand in Maze's face.
This time, I barely had Maze out of her enclosure for a minute, and A stuck her hand right on Maze's head. Maze is head shy. She doesn't like it when her head is touched, at all. I was so in shock I didn't really know what to say to get A to quit without freaking her out. She immediately goes, "I can read cats but not snake body language." Can you, though? Can you really??? Would you just grab a cat without letting it sniff you first and expect to not swipe at you?? No, so why would you do that with a snake?
It just kind of went downhill from there. By the time we put Maze back, she was living up to the name 'pet rock' and was the most tense I'd ever seen. I felt so bad. It's definitely made me think of rules to tell people beforehand. Most importantly, let Maze come to you first.
Don't mean to be rude about A, and I realize it's also my fault for not having better control of the situation.... Just. It could have gone better.
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Someone besides me, to clarify. This happened a little over a month ago. The girlfriend of a guy I know is interested in snakes, and we'd chat about Maze every time I'd see her at work. I eventually invited her over to meet Maze. We'll call her A.
For reference, I'd never had anyone over that liked snakes before this, and didn't really know what to say before it happened to prevent this. Common sense, probably should have known. Most folks that come over are curious, but not curious enough to stick their hand in Maze's face.
This time, I barely had Maze out of her enclosure for a minute, and A stuck her hand right on Maze's head. Maze is head shy. She doesn't like it when her head is touched, at all. I was so in shock I didn't really know what to say to get A to quit without freaking her out. She immediately goes, "I can read cats but not snake body language." Can you, though? Can you really??? Would you just grab a cat without letting it sniff you first and expect to not swipe at you?? No, so why would you do that with a snake?
It just kind of went downhill from there. By the time we put Maze back, she was living up to the name 'pet rock' and was the most tense I'd ever seen. I felt so bad. It's definitely made me think of rules to tell people beforehand. Most importantly, let Maze come to you first.
Don't mean to be rude about A, and I realize it's also my fault for not having better control of the situation.... Just. It could have gone better.
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did Maze strike out? such a bummer, and yes both of you made mistakes. A sounds a bit ignorant and just needed some common sense snake handling info. when i had my 6 year old cousin handle the snakes, i explained 2 rules before she even saw a snake: 1, IMMEDIATELY let me know if you are scared, nervous, or don't want to hold them anymore, and 2, their heads are not to be touched or gotten close to. honestly that's the only rules i have, besides you know...not throwing the snake across the room if you freak out.
remember: mistakes are important learning experiences, and are just as valuable as any resource out there. live and learn, friend. :)
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did Maze strike out? such a bummer, and yes both of you made mistakes. A sounds a bit ignorant and just needed some common sense snake handling info. when i had my 6 year old cousin handle the snakes, i explained 2 rules before she even saw a snake: 1, IMMEDIATELY let me know if you are scared, nervous, or don't want to hold them anymore, and 2, their heads are not to be touched or gotten close to. honestly that's the only rules i have, besides you know...not throwing the snake across the room if you freak out.
remember: mistakes are important learning experiences, and are just as valuable as any resource out there. live and learn, friend. :)
No, luckily she is not a biter. She retreats and freezes, and had only struck defensively once while in shed, right after I got her.
True. Everything is a learning experience -- and this was definitely an eye opener for me.
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Those are my two rules too. If you get scared tell me. NEVER touch their heads. Ever! Boop HATES her head touched....hates it. And her and maze are twinzies because she retreats and turns into a pet rock too lol. Not only do they look alike, they act alike too.
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Love the blushing down her dorsal strip what a lovely lady that is only getting better :D
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Love the blushing down her dorsal strip what a lovely lady that is only getting better :D
Thank you! I love her blushing very much.
Digesting girl doing a nighttime bask!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6f650e3c14.jpg
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We need to put a side by side of maze and boop together. They look soooo much alike! Such beauties!
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We need to put a side by side of maze and boop together. They look soooo much alike! Such beauties!
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that'd be interesting! have to make sure the lighting is about the same so possibly doable lol.
maze looks so brown in most lighting and while she is brownish, she's not /that/ brown. weird how that works.
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that'd be interesting! have to make sure the lighting is about the same so possibly doable lol.
maze looks so brown in most lighting and while she is brownish, she's not /that/ brown. weird how that works.
Boop too. While she has darkened she tends to look brownish too. But she is more cream or tanish with blushing along her spine and sides.
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Boop too. While she has darkened she tends to look brownish too. But she is more cream or tanish with blushing along her spine and sides.
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Maze has that creamy-white color too, around her keyholes (i think that's what they're called? what the alien heads turned into lol) and along her belly. It's interesting how pastel can make a HRA look a lot more like a RA :). Just looking at HRA and RA, I would have never assumed that one precedes the other lol.
Found her in her humid hide this morning. I think I need to start looking into a bigger one :p.https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...fbcc180b81.jpg
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Well I finally caved and added live plants to her enclosure. She's been out every night, either basking or generally wandering around. I'm hoping that's a sign she's enjoying the new stuff.
It doesn't look the best -- the plants have a ways to go before I'll be happy with how they look. I forgot to add the cryptanthus, and I'm waiting to see how the white veined nerve plant does before I add the red veined ones.
Plants are: fittonia white vein, red prayer plant, silver satin pothos, and golden pothos. Fake plants are there until the rest grow in more.
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More pics of the viv with and without the fake plants, plus one of Maze. She doesn't like how windy it is outside lol, poor girl. Didn't actually go outside, but the windows are open so I thought I'd let her taste fresh air.
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I have a very rough guess-timate of how long Maze is these days. My hand is 10 inches from heel to the tip of my middle finger, and she curled up perfectly on my hand so that her body overlapped three times, with her tail tucked underneath her body. Based on that, she's about 36-38 inches long. I don't really want to give an accurate measurement yet, because her hatch day's coming up this month and I want to get her measurements a bit closer to then.
Either way, that's a lot more growth since February than I expected, especially since I'm feeding her fairly conservatively. She was 29 inches back then. Dang, girl. Lol.
Some pics in bad lighting after she'd relaxed.... and fell asleep.... on my hand.
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To think she was once a 12 inch worm :').
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I learned a few things today.
- I'm apparently good at eye-balling lengths because she is exactly 36 inches.....
- She is as long as her enclosure, which means I really need to get on giving her an upgrade. I'm working on it, baby, I promise!
Dang. Big girl. That IRIS bin to last her until I can build her a nice, plywood vivarium.... I hope. Lol. She's growing a lot faster than I expected!
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Big girl! Is that an Xlarge exo terra she's in?
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these two photos :love::love::love:
who's there!?!?
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Big girl! Is that an Xlarge exo terra she's in?
lol! i think it's a medium. she really, really likes these over the home-made ones (the stinker), even though these are still on the big side for her. i'll probably buy a few more to fill up the IRIS bin so she has lots of options on where she wants to be.
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lol! i think it's a medium. she really, really likes these over the home-made ones (the stinker), even though these are still on the big side for her. i'll probably buy a few more to fill up the IRIS bin so she has lots of options on where she wants to be.
Haha whoops! For some reason it looked bigger to me since it was a different shape than the large I have :p
I've been having the same problem where they've become Tapioca's favorite hides now over his previously favorite Zelda one's haha. He definitely favored them over the RBI ones I had!
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these two photos :love::love::love:
who's there!?!?
❤️❤️ Those are my favs from this bunch. She's so cute it makes me want to scream lol!
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Haha whoops! For some reason it looked bigger to me since it was a different shape than the large I have :p
I've been having the same problem where they've become Tapioca's favorite hides now over his previously favorite Zelda one's haha. He definitely favored them over the RBI ones I had!
Oh, well, she's still about Tapioca's size, weight-wise. She's just long, which I guess I should expect from a female. She kind of blind-sided me, though. I've been so busy with school that apparently I just kind of lost track of how big she's getting.
Aww! Maybe you could modify some to match your theme as he gets bigger.
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