Introducing my new jungle, Gimel!!! (Pics and Progress)

She arrived! She's adorable and so so tiny!!! Serpwidgets pegs her at 2ft 5in. She's 10months old, so that seems just about right, apparently she's been on "medium"(?) mice.
(bonus points to whomever deciphers her name)

Here's her measure pic
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Looks like you have a future herper on your hands.:)

Nice looking little boa. And the size seems about right. Rango who will be 1 year old end of this month is about 30" and in shed now so he might be gain an inch. And he is eating adult mice. The places I buy from don't distinguish between small or large adults, its just hoppers, adults, jumbos.

Very nice! Glad to see she arrived safe and sound! Her saddles are clean. I like the heart shape in the one in her middle. Nice!

She's beautiful! I love the name-you won it all!!


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She's beautiful! I love the name-you won it all!!


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:winner:
Just to demystify for all my goy-friends...
Dreidel, the Chanukah spinning top of lore, is a gambling game played with chocolate coins or "gelt" - the 4 sides each indicate a different result for the spinner: SHIN means you must put 2 more coins into the pot, NUN means you neither win nor lose any gelt, HAY means you win half the pot, and GIMEL means you win the whole pot. - Now i was not planning on getting a Jewish snake, i was just waiting to find one that felt right, then i came across the picture below in her ad; look at the large saddle to the left, i saw that and instantly knew i'd found a winner!
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Congrats on the handsome new addition D and way to bring in the next generation of reptile lovers. I like the symbolism/meaning in the name too.

Amazing when i actually break out a real camera, its not a good one, but its not a phone.

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Science defying 3-way comparison video!!!
With movie magic i have assembled a video comparing Irwin the day i got him (as i foolishly offered him food) , 1 year later, and Gimel - be assured i broke no protocols of quarantine or the space-time continuum.

NOTE: i didn't plan to do this, it was just sort of a sudden idea cobbled together so sorry for the less than stelar quality

https://youtu.be/D4sHwkRhGVY

Oh my god, she's grown HUGE!!

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or not...:D

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The Good news: She shed for me! first one, and its perfect!

The ambivalent news: she has not grown at all


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Meh, its been all of 5 weeks, i'm not stressing, i remember Irwin only put on 1.5 inches from March to May then hit his big summer growth spurt.

She's still my sweet little girl.
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Congrats on your cool Boa! Love the name too. :)

Beautiful. Its great when the kids get enthused also.

Glad to see she's doing well!

OK, its a bit behind schedule, but i measured her on June 20 and she had put on 3 and 1/4 inches!

The other good news coming just today is that she ate her first rat!
The mice were just looking a bit small and i dont like the idea of feeding multiple items in one meal. The next size up available at the big box store by me (the only options in my neck of the woods) is a small rat which is way too big. I needed proper weaned rats! But all i could find were online shops with minimum orders of 25 with $40 shipping. Then, hazzah! i found a guy who was relatively local, about an hour and half away, with beautiful weanlings for $1.25 and he was happy to freeze up just 10 for me since i was picking them up in person - i also grabbed 1/2 dozen smalls for Irwin at $1.50 instead of $5.00 from the store!

But the really amazing news?? My wife actually held her!! Afterward she acted like she was grossed out, but i caught her looking like a very content snake-lady; there may be hope yet!

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BOOM! We are literally a fraction of an inch from 3 feet!!

35.5 inches; she is now about the same size as Irwin when i first got him, and 6 months younger. Below is a little 'shop i did of her last week and the day i got her (March 7th).


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Well 6 weeks later she's only grown 1/4 of an inch... i was sort of hoping for more, but whatevs'. Will repost pics once i find a new hosting site, any suggestions?

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She's a BIGGUN'!
​well, not really, but she's grown to a staggering 3' 4" And today i gave her her first small rat! she'd been on weanlings since forever and it occurred to me that she's actually bigger than Irwin was when he was on smalls (see below) and the weaned rats were looking kind of pathetic next to her. She gobbled it up without missing a beat!

Heres a composite i made of her this month at 21 months old, and Irwin when he was 23 months old The blue lines are to check that the dollar "rulers" were correctly scaled (no pun intended)

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Very nice,really put some decent growth on


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It was Gimel and Irwin's anniversary on the 7th (coincidentally they both arrived on March 7 one year apart) . here is a sloppy composite of her the day i unboxed her and last week (sorry for color issue, different room different light, etc)

Check out Irwin's progression thread for his before/after shot

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Looking good and a great contrast against each other


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3' 7"

OK, I gave her about 8 weeks and she gave me about 3 inches. Not terrible, thought honestly i expected a bit more considering i just upped her prey size. But then again, maybe i'm getting spoiled by Dr. Waffle's rapid growth, and i notice my boas always do most of their growing in the summer so the next 8 weeks may be more productive. On a more disgusting note, she also held onto a 6 week 3 rat poop until just the other day... my god. I was seriously starting to wonder if i had some serious miscalculation in my feeding regimen by how chubby she was, but it was only the last 1/4 of her that was chubby, and 3 rats... well, i posted a pic below but its not for the faint of heart, LOL!



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Nice little jungle,it’s mad how big a present they can leave sometimes [emoji4]


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3' 7"

OK, I gave her about 8 weeks and she gave me about 3 inches. Not terrible, thought honestly i expected a bit more considering i just upped her prey size. But then again, maybe i'm getting spoiled by Dr. Waffle's rapid growth, and i notice my boas always do most of their growing in the summer so the next 8 weeks may be more productive. On a more disgusting note, she also held onto a 6 week 3 rat poop until just the other day... my god. I was seriously starting to wonder if i had some serious miscalculation in my feeding regimen by how chubby she was, but it was only the last 1/4 of her that was chubby, and 3 rats... well, i posted a pic below but its not for the faint of heart, LOL!



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Dang, thats a huge turd lol.

And be glad your boas are even growing. I think Gina has boycotted growing. I switched to weaned rats and she hasnt seem to grown at all, still about 3 feet. Rango and Louie are shedding and growing like crazy. BCC grow slower than paint drying in a rain storm.

Congrats!!:)

Well i measured at 4 weeks instead of 8 b/c she just shed. Consistent with the above measurement, she put on 1.5 inches so now coming in at 3 foot 8.5 inches, so tiny!

Nice!!!:)

OK, 8 weeks later and about 2.5 to 3 inches longer - 3' 11" - so agonizingly close to 4 feet!

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