Norman the No-Feet!

Got a male lesser from The Tropical Hut in Portland, OR today! Our family is very excited :) Sorry for the picture quality, all I have is my phone.


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Very nice! I love the set up. He's an awesome looking snake. I need to head over there myself. I am suppose to be making a trade with him to get my female het clown :D

Thanks! They have a very nice shop. The owners where not in when we where there but the staff where very nice and helpful!

Congrats! He's quite handsome. I got my little Gloria from the Tropical Hut as well. Great people, great snakes, great prices!
Your setup looks great as well. Enjoy!

Thank you! This is the whole setup.

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Nice :gj:

Thanks!

He ate today! He seems to be doing very well so far :)

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How were their prices? I live in Portland and would love to check it out sometime

Beautiful snake and setup congrats.:)

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How were their prices? I live in Portland and would love to check it out sometime

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I thought their prices were very reasonable! They had a good selection and some of the best prices of any vendor at the recent NW Reptile Expo. Easily $50-$100 cheaper than what I've been seeing on Kingsnake.com.
You can find a (little outdated) price list here.
And they keep a live stream of recent hatchings on their Facebook page.

FWIW, I got my 127g Butter Pastel female from them for $160. I consider that a steal!

Their prices are are decent, they have several different single gene morphs for $100 or less and all the animals looked good and alert. They have a list of avalible animals and prices on their website.

Thank you!

Beautiful little snake! I love the name too [emoji4] thanks for sharing.


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Beautiful little snake! I love the name too [emoji4] thanks for sharing.


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Thanks! My daughter calls snakes no-feet :D

2nd feed with us and he took f/t! He has only had live till now. Very happy he is doing so well!


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Congrats on the new snake. I got a baby male lesser from the Tropical Hut as well. I picked him up at the Portland reptile expo on aug 23rd. He only just took a f/t on sept 5th. It took a little coaxing. Norman seems like such a cooperative eater, congratulations.

He thinks he's a green tree python. Lol


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Congrats on the new snake. I got a baby male lesser from the Tropical Hut as well. I picked him up at the Portland reptile expo on aug 23rd. He only just took a f/t on sept 5th. It took a little coaxing. Norman seems like such a cooperative eater, congratulations.

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Thanks! I commented on your post before I saw you did on this one haha. We might have sibling from the same clutch :)

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He thinks he's a green tree python. Lol


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Lol it was kinda weird but he took it and had it down in just a few minutes so hopefully it wasn't too hard on him!

Glad to hear he's on f/t! We both seem to have purchased really good eaters. For whatever it's worth, I switched Gloria over to f/t rat pups when I got her and she's been eating like a champ. She was about 130g when I made the switch. So if you're considering getting Norman onto rats, if he's anything like Gloria, you'll probably have success!

Though finding a steady supply of f/t rat pups in the Pacific NW seems to be a challenge...

Wow I have never seen a bp eat like that that is too cute! Just eating hanging up in a branch like green tree python. Lol he's confused. [emoji4]


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Glad to hear he's on f/t! We both seem to have purchased really good eaters. For whatever it's worth, I switched Gloria over to f/t rat pups when I got her and she's been eating like a champ. She was about 130g when I made the switch. So if you're considering getting Norman onto rats, if he's anything like Gloria, you'll probably have success!

Though finding a steady supply of f/t rat pups in the Pacific NW seems to be a challenge...

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I bought a months supply of f/t mice while I was in Portland and I found a local mouse supplier but no rats and I really don't like the idea of Petco/PetSmart f/t. If I had extra space I would totally start a small colony, there are always people on CL and Facebook looking for rats.

Thats too cool..never touched the ground..you should frame that..

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Thats too cool..never touched the ground..you should frame that..

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Thanks! Just wish I had a better camera at the time, all I had was my phone :/

Here are some more pictures of Norman :) The lighting was weird so I tried to fix a few without messing up his colors.

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Beautiful pictures! I love the reflection.

Norman is such a handsome little no feet [emoji4]


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Thanks! Sometime I'll try the mirror outside, that should make some nice pictures :)

I've gotten a couple from The Tropical Hut, they def have some quality animals. Upstanding business practices also

We took some pictures outside today!

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Wow. Norman looks great! I hear you about the lack of rats. I have been paying 5.99 at petco and it's very costly! I had my first litter of 10 rats born this morning and 6 more pregnant females at the moment that should give birth this week. I'm hoping to increase my production big time here soon as I can't afford to keep feeding my snakes at this rate lol. 30 snakes roughly and a 5.99 rat each week really takes a bite out of my finances so to speak. I've been afraid to get anymore snakes after having this food bill.

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Wow. Norman looks great! I hear you about the lack of rats. I have been paying 5.99 at petco and it's very costly! I had my first litter of 10 rats born this morning and 6 more pregnant females at the moment that should give birth this week. I'm hoping to increase my production big time here soon as I can't afford to keep feeding my snakes at this rate lol. 30 snakes roughly and a 5.99 rat each week really takes a bite out of my finances so to speak. I've been afraid to get anymore snakes after having this food bill.

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Thank you :) I'm glad I only have one!

Norman is in blue :) this will be his first shed with me.

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Its been about a year now that I've had Norman and almost as long sense I've posted here xD Here are a couple new pictures.

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Norm is a good looking guy with a great keeper!

fantastic example of a lesser :gj:

Thanks! I haven't had a single problem with him in any way, he has been an awesome first snake!

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I'm glad to see Norman is still doing well. He's a cutie.

So strange reading this thread and admiring your snake... and then realizing you're in my city lol. If you're still looking for rats there is a place in Tigard called the House of Reptiles. It's where I get my feeders from and they have always looked great. However if you ever venture there be careful, they have some amazing animals there for sale and it takes a lot of willpower for me to walk out with nothing but feeders.

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Norman and my Daughter :)
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So strange reading this thread and admiring your snake... and then realizing you're in my city lol. If you're still looking for rats there is a place in Tigard called the House of Reptiles. It's where I get my feeders from and they have always looked great. However if you ever venture there be careful, they have some amazing animals there for sale and it takes a lot of willpower for me to walk out with nothing but feeders.

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Thanks :) I moved to Illinois about a year ago though and it's even harder to find feeders here xD I wanted to go check them out but I never made it over there... Didn't they go out of business?

Nice! Great story about Norman. Is he a lesser or lesserbee? In any case he's a fine looking young man! Lol. :gj:

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Nice! Great story about Norman. Is he a lesser or lesserbee? In any case he's a fine looking young man! Lol. :gj:

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Thank you! He is just a lesser :)

The owner wanted to retire. It was a sad day. I miss having a store like that around.

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