a year old now...

My pair of gaboons are about a year old this month so I thought I'd post some pics of them showing their outstanding growth over the past 9-10 months... I picked both of them up at the end of the summer last year when they were both a couple months old...

Here they are together right after I picked them up. The female (katie) is on top and then the male (douglas) on the bottom... they weighed in at 71 grams (douglas) and 82 grams (katie) back in july/august of 2006.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...gandkatie3.jpg

baby katie poking her head out...
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...an/dougie1.jpg

and now for the comparisons. I hope you all get a kick out of this as much as I do... :P

Here's a few of baby doug...
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glasontup1.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glasontup3.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ittlemouse.jpg

and then douglas now, at 1,154 grams...
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glas452107.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glas152107.jpg

and then katie as a baby (NOTICE the tupperware top: it's the same top in the baby pics as in the current ones)
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...an/dougie2.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...an/dougie3.jpg

and then katie now, at almost 2,400 grams... :sunny:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...atie152107.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...atie352107.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...atie252107.jpg

and in this one, you can tell how thick she's gotten... She's about 3.5 inches wide in this shot, but that's while she's in a normal position. When she flattens out, she can hit almost 5 inches across!
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...atie552107.jpg

and then a little fang flexing for you all... pretty flexible aren't they?? :eek:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...eflex52107.jpg

well, it's been crazy, but they just keep growing... ;) let me know what you think... does anyone else have '06's that have grown this fast??

You're a brave man... :cool:

just confident, and able to work under pressure... :)

thanks...

AWESOME!!!! I have always had a thing for gabbies. Amazing photography and wow how they grow.

They are amazing looking! We were just checking out a big gaboon that's housed at the Toledo Zoo this past weekend and were amazed at how it blended in so well with it's leaf litter substrate. Gorgeous patterns and impressive snakes. I can't believe how much yours have grown this past year. Your pictures are fantastic, I've never seen such lovely ones of gabbies before, thanks. :)

Those are some beautiful snakes. One of my favorite types :)

gorgeous snakes!
i am going to have to second what nebby said...brave man!

amazing, i especially like how bright katie is

Nice mang!!

Those are gorgeous...so hot :gj:

Wow! What a gorgeous pair of gabbies! I never thought I'd say this about deadly snakes, but those baby pics are cute! :D

How is there behavior? Like if you go to move them while cleaning, do they go on ferocious snake mode?

I personally would never own a hot, but gabbies would be one I would choose. Their patterns and colors are incredible. Yours are no exception. And those pictures show them off beautifully.

thank you!

the temperment on both of them is probably not what you would expect. You would think a snake that holds that kind of power would be confident of itself, but with both of these they are only defensive.

I know the rest of what I'm going to write makes them sound like they are terrified every hour of every day of their lives, but really most of the time they just sit. And they are okay with me watching them, and the only time they really react is if they feel you are above them, or when I'm trying to move them with tools (they hate tools).

It's kind of hard to explain, but I can say for sure, if you were to lean over the top of their cages, they would probably die of a heart attack (slightly exaggerating of course)...

They are scared of the hooks and they can be scared of me (but this is only when you're right there with them and trying to move them with the hook, etc), and they react by huffing and puffing and literally bursting energy to move as fast they can away... but most of the time you can get right up to the glass with them on the front of their cages without them doing anything... the female does sometimes acknowledge your presence by tilting her head up, as if to challenge you...

Let's see, their nicknames are "huff" and "puff" and I hear them huffing and puffing just about every time someone walks by them (especially if they move to quickly)...

But out of all the day-to-day care for the past 10 months, I have been struck at only once through the glass by the male. And he was just having a bad day... It was also when he was younger, and even more nervious about me...

And the thing is, as some of you may already know, I have to get in there everyday and move them around with the hooks because they won't drink water on their own. For some reason gaboons just can't remember where water is and the only way they'll drink from standing water is if they happen to stumble across it... But they don't move around that much, so I have to take them both to their bowls once a day, and that works... It's also pretty amazing to watch them drink...

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Originally Posted by Blake_Herman

And the thing is, as some of you may already know, I have to get in there everyday and move them around with the hooks because they won't drink water on their own. For some reason gaboons just can't remember where water is and the only way they'll drink from standing water is if they happen to stumble across it... But they don't move around that much, so I have to take them both to their bowls once a day, and that works... It's also pretty amazing to watch them drink...

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wow! i didn't know that! is it the fact that it's not running water! what about putting one of those stones that go in fish tanks.............that pretty cool though

Dude ripping Gaboons!!

You take some freaking awesome pictures as well. Keep em coming!!


Good luck with them...and as always be careful lol.


Mike

one of my personal fav hots. i want one so bad but am kinda afraid so im holding off for a long time.

thanks for the awesome pics.

keep them comin.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ittlemouse.jpg


i love that pic!
Awesome pair, ive always had an eye for them.

Katie is "HOT" !!! :sunny: No, Seriously!

how much would the antivenom cost and how offen to you have to buy it? (if it has a shelf life) also how do you get a hold of it? I know in AZ they have the stuff for everything that I had right in the Post hospital. Centipeeds, scorpions, Rattlers, I really didnt have to wory about buying the anti-venom and it was paid for by the military... I too have yet to be bitten, but I nolonger have hots.
sorry for all the questions, just wondering. :D

I was stupid in AZ. I knew how to care for the animals I had but I didnt have the antivenom, nor do i know anything about it. That is why i nolonger have them. :oops:

Great shots Blake!! :sunny:

That pair has grown quick!

a friend of ours here has enough to get me started with the antivenom if anything were to go wrong, and then anything else would be brought in from venom-one's stock in florida, and then it gets charged through the hospital and you pay for it with the hospital bills...

well here are a couple more pics from today that show some size comparisions of dougie... (and I just want to go ahead and clarify - there is a zoom lens on my camera - I'm not as close as the pictures may look. And I have my camera in one hand, with a hook in the other in case he were to try to make a run for it) And I had backup in the room watching in case I might miss something while looking through the camera lens...
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glas252307.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glas352307.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glas152307.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...glas452307.jpg

and another cool one of fat katie coiled... there's a poop coming soon! :tp: :omfg:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...edfat52307.jpg

Ooooooooooooooo rich man, Blake!:P :P A twenty?!???? Most ppl only use $1 or $10 :zerb:


Very beautiful snakes you have there, and you can sure tell that they've grown!!!


With a hot, do you have to feed live, or can you get them to eat FT?

When I cared for the hots in college we fed everything live, so I was wondering.

Thanks!

RuLyn:sunny:

Both of these two have NO problems with f/t rats for doug and f/t rats/rabbits for katie...

I do however for their benefit, try to switch it up every once in a while... They will either eat the food just laying there on the ground or they will take it from me on tongs. The major difference is that I've seen on several occasions them never once pierce their prey with their fangs (and therefore NOT envenomate) while eating it laying on the ground, and from the tongs they strike it as if it were alive and are rather nasty about it... So just enriching them a little here and there... :)

I have never seen a cooler pattern! I didnt know gaboons had such a pretty design on them. WOW, just gorgeous! Props!

hehe... i thought i had seen this thread before... then i looked at the date! but, since i didn't comment the first time, i will now!


if i ever decide to get a hot (which will never happen btw!) it will look an aweful lot like katie!

ps... katie and douglas.... not names you would expect for animals with THOSE FANGS!!!

oh they are beautiful!!!!

I've always loved gabbies... :D

well since this thread has been brought back from the dead (again), any updated pics? :D

Beautiful pics and models too!!! Wow!!! I come and check out the "hots", I just love to look from afar - thanks for sharing and be safe!!

The little spikes on their nose is cool!!!

wow!! brave you certainly are but those are some AMAZING photos!!! wow.. just wow