Baking eggs?

I sure hope she is! Her attitude has definately sharpened; she thinks you are food until you give her a light tap on the head with a water bottle letting her know that you aren't.. (thanks for the tip.. someone posted that they learnt that from Adam, and it is a great tip!) She was paired with my Pastel male, and I observed several lockups.
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Your welcome for the tip. It works 99% of the time. Looking to see some little pastel eggs and the little nippers pipping.

She sure looks like she's keeping an eye on you Jen! LOL Best of luck!

You might have read it from me, I know I just posted that I learned that tip from Adam in a thread just yesterday that you replied to.


She looks great!

Edit - OR, maybe your read it from Ed! :D

Hey Good luck to ya! Trying to hatchout some pastels over here myself!

Best of luck to you with that beautiful girl of yours...I've got my fingers crossed for you!;)

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You might have read it from me, I know I just posted that I learned that tip from Adam in a thread just yesterday that you replied to.


She looks great!

Edit - OR, maybe your read it from Ed! :D

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That tip is an Adam original. I was getting nervous and down right scared of one of mine and that was his tip. Now who she got it from is no telling. But I got one that that tip doesnt work with she trys eating the bottle. :mad:

you have to go into her enclosure with tactical riot gear to keep the teeth out of flesh. LOL :sabduel:

Yup, Adam drops all sorts of good knowledge! I know I wouldn't be where I am today and at the level I am today if it weren't for all the calls where I said "hey, I have another question!!!!" I still have a LOT to learn about these guys, but I'm loving every minute of it!

That is an awesome tip.. I also use it on my BCI, though he really is not as "overexcitable" as this lady is. :)

I wish that tip worked on my Borneo short-tailed python...

okay so what exactly is the tip?

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But I got one that that tip doesnt work with she trys eating the bottle.\

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Just use the spray bottle to push her head down to the bottom of the tub and hold it there ... then with your other hand you can manipulate the animals body ... with 500+ animals I have more than a few that need a little extra special handling ... the only times I get bit is when I reach in a cage while paying attention to something else (which is at least a dozen times a day ... LOL).

-adam

My adaptation: If you have a snake that's gung-ho about leaping out at you, either thinking you're food or wanting to bite your hand off, you simply tap them lightly with something (bottle, etc) and they recoil, seeing that you are not offering food; then you unobtrusively pick them up (I never grab for the head or neck; I scoop them up from their coils.) Ginger will literally shoot her head/neck out of the rack; now, if I were dropping in a p/k rat for her and she was catching/coiling, that would be fine; but I do not want this happening ::again:: with my hand!

thanks you two. i appreciate having this info before i need it. ;)

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Just use the spray bottle to push her head down to the bottom of the tub and hold it there ... then with your other hand you can manipulate the animals body ... with 500+ animals I have more than a few that need a little extra special handling ... the only times I get bit is when I reach in a cage while paying attention to something else (which is at least a dozen times a day ... LOL).

-adam

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See more words of wisdom from the man on the mountain. I have been using a hand towel or bath cloth to cover her up and scoop and lift to take her out that calms her down till she see's movement and then it's off to the races again. LOL

it's the spunky one that keep it intresting.

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See more words of wisdom from the man on the mountain. I have been using a hand towel or bath cloth to cover her up and scoop and lift to take her out that calms her down till she see's movement and then it's off to the races again. LOL

it's the spunky one that keep it intresting.

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This is a good idea too; I use this method more often with my BCI.. it makes your hands seem less like prey items and more like part of the environment, like a branch or a shrub or something.

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This is a good idea too; I use this method more often with my BCI.. it makes your hands seem less like prey items and more like part of the environment, like a branch or a shrub or something.

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It also touches them all over and they get the feeling of being covered. Plus if they do bite teeth go in cloth and not skin

I love the look you get when you first open the tub. Mine spring out and come toward me and you have to decide if the are gonna snap at you or just coming to see whats going on. Some times you never can guess.....