Pair of YH Tigers

These guys arrived today from The Creature Company, they're Yellowhead Tigers. I named them Boris & Natasha.

I've been bouncing off the walls for a week waiting for them to get here!

I have to say, Jean and BK at The Creature Company were a pleasure to deal with. They were very patient with me, even when I had to push the ship date back about a week. And they came very well packaged, Fedex overnight, and the heat packs were still very warm when they got here.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/gallery/...age.php?i=5715

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Wow - very fine looking!

Love those heads too. They look pretty laid back for fresh out of the box.

Mellow fellows?

Natasha was kinda flighty, she definitely just wanted to find someplace small, dark, and secure. Boris was more relaxed, but very curious, much more into checking out the new place. Neither showed the least bit of aggression, not even a hiss. I'm gonna give them a couple days of peace and quiet, then I'll start handling them, and try a feeding.

They are beautiful. Wish I had room for retics! Love the stripe on the back of the one.. tigers are nice snakes.

Thanks! These two are the reason I've been asking so many questions about breeding rats LOL!

Funny Story: I was on the phone with Jean at TCC ordering these two, and we were discussing shipping and health gaurantees, and my girlfriend (who besides being very cool is 36 weeks pregnant, and at times a tad "hormonal") walked in just as I asked "So, Do you gaurantee SEX?". The look on her face was priceless!! I started laughing, and told Jean what had just happened, so she started laughing also. It wasn't until I asked "how many generations from WC are they?" that my girlfriend realized who I was talking to, then she started to laugh her a$$ off when she figured out I was talking about snakes.

Hehehe......great story! And gorgeous snakes! wow!! What are you planning for future housing? I'm looking forward to owning a retic or two someday....but only when I can build a dedicated "giant snake" house. LOL

They look great! Congrats! =)

I'm planning on building 8x2.5 ft enclosures for them in the (near!) future. The female will probably out grow the 4x2 in a year, the male may be ok for a year and a half. Basically, they'd just be bigger versions of what I just built. And I'd probably do a triple stack again. I'm toying with the idea of getting either an albino burm or albino green burm (maybe patternless) female and trying for Bateaters het for albino, or Green Bateater Hets. Of course, I'll also be breeding these two hoping for SuperTigers.

Bateaters are *so* cool. I wouldn't get a green burm because of all the health issues they have though.

Health issues? I hadn't heard that. What's going on with them?

I've been looking into the Dumerils and i was wondering do they ever take rabbits and do they have strick need to keeping or are they decent and pretty easy to care for? And what size of enclosure do they need at full grown? Do they stay about the size of a "COMMON BOA" and how thick? Thanks Aaron IM just wanting to make sure that i narrow it down to what i really want a DUM, Corn or a king.

Well, green burms seem to get sick and die after they reach 2-3 years of age. They get chronic RIs that seem uncurable and they kind of wither away. The problem is, they are old enough to breed before they die, so they continue to be sold.

The problems are known as 'burm disease'

BPAD--- I don't know much about Dums to be honest. I know they don't get very long, I think 6-7 ft is max for a female, maybe 8. But from what I understand, they're pretty heavy bodied. I've heard they are easy to maintain, with pretty docile temperments once they mature, but can be nippy as sub-adults. Either way, a Dum will be vastly larger than a Corn or King. Sorry I can't help you more.


Shelby---That sucks, they're such cool looking snakes, especially the albino patternless. Guess I'll just have to stick with a regular albino burm.....................Gee, darn.

You should check out albino labyrinth, and albino granite burms. They're pretty hot.

BPAD - you should really start a new thread if you want to ask something so off topic, but everything in the post above about dums was correct. A 4'x2' cage is usually adequate.

Maybe a bit OT...

I saw looking at some breeder's website today and he had pictures of his Dum's self-buried in their substrate (cypress mulch if I remember correctly), which he said was their hunting technique, to bury themselves in the substrate (leaf/etc. debris in the wild?) and wait for an appropriate prey to pass by and then, ZING!, the dum pounces out of the cover and nabs the prey. Is that correct according to what you folks know? =)

I really like dum's....me wants. ;)

Yes, that's absolutely true Cassandra. In fact, the trick to getting baby dums to eat is to give them something to burrow in so they can 'ambush' their rat!

My dum likes to go under her paper.

Great.........................I've gotten three new snakes in the last 4 days...............................and now I want a pair of Dums.................................and Argys................................................and Hoggs................................................and burms.................................and JCP's...........................................and, and, and.................. Oh, yeah, GTP's, can't forget the GTPs...........................

I'm with ya Erin...hehe...thanks for the confirmation April! =)

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Great.........................I've gotten three new snakes in the last 4 days...............................and now I want a pair of Dums.................................and Argys................................................and Hoggs................................................and burms.................................and JCP's...........................................and, and, and.................. Oh, yeah, GTP's, can't forget the GTPs...........................

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Welcome to herpaholicism.

Im never knew they had a YH and Tiger phases for sale how much did the male run ya?

Here's a link to TCC's reticulated page. Tigers run 200-250, SuperTigers 550+.

http://www.thecreaturecompany.com/in...=monster&id=29

Still some left!

Yeah right i wish i could get one but my wife would kill me and i don't think i would be able to afford to feedings one takes. So that is out of the picture im going to save up and some day get albino redtail.