Big girl Ophelia pics!

Yes, I know I post a lot of pics.. but c'mon they're my scalekids, how can I not be a proud snake-mom?

Ophelia the fat-butt brat surinam! (in shed by the way)

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She is a sexy bit@h!

lol! She wants me to ask you if you want to say that to her face. ;)

haha..After the close call with my big girl the other day, i dont want to tempt fate.

Ophelia is truly a brat too. I've never had a snake that's harder to get out (or in) to her cage. I get all of her in her boaphile, then she's coiled around my hand so hard I can't get her off, and once I do, her head shoots out the door and she's out again! agh!

I can't wait for little Carmen to get that big!

I hope (and am sure) that Carmen will be better behaved. ;)

Shelby, I know just how you feel....I have my own RTB brat, Bonnie...she sneaks her head out when I'm tryin' to put her back in, and just like Ophelia she wraps her tail around my arm and won't let go, and when I want to "play" with her, she wraps her tail around a branch so it's much harder to get her out...it's becoming increasingly difficult, as she is now over 6 ft!!!

Yes exactly what ophelia does! ..except she bites and is 7'!

OOOhhhhhh.......I must be lucky, cause Bonnie has never evn struck at me...ouch that must've hurt!!!!

Well, she hasn't actually tagged me yet. It's a halfhearted kind of 'hey, back off, lady!' warning strike thing.

Whew!!!!! A 7ft Boa could give you a bad bad boo boo.......

Well, my 7'+ dumerils bit me, and it really wasn't bad.. though she didn't hold on.

Very Beautiful! Love the coloring!

My girl is the opposite. She is impossible to get out of her cage. But she is funny too because she loves being in her cage but you can tell when she has fouled it up. She is at the door ready to get out of there.

Well, Ophelia is impossible to get out of the cage too. She's just impossible all around. When I try to get her out, I can grab her midsection and pull, but one of the other end will wrap around the edge of the cage and hold on for dear life. Makes me glad that boaphile has the aligning pins on the cages.. or else the cage would go tumbling down!

haha..same thing here. Snakes have a way of going where they want. My hog is the worst though. Wrapping that tail around cords or anything else close by.

My hog island isn't bad. She's a good girl. My baby surinam Julinar gives Ophelia a run for her money though!

Carmen is definitely starting to be a pain at both ends of taking out and putting back in. Do you guys have any advice to helping to break this behavior in a youngster or is it just the way boas are?

I thinking of holding her in my hands while inside the viv, anything to get her used to being calm during removal from and return to the cage.

It's just a boa thing. They are notorious.

Hmm, welp Imma try anyway...no harm in trying (unless she decides to bite me, heheh!).