Pictures of Sauron, my new baby!

So I've been bitten by the BP bug and I'm in love! I already have 6 corns but for some reason BPs just appeal to me soo much. It's something about their faces. For my birthday my husband bought me one and it's been one of my best birthday presents yet! Here are pictures of him. I was told he is a juvenile so I'm assuming that means he is an 08. Store said that they couldn't get him to take f/t at all but his first feeding with us he took f/t right away! I wish I could say he took it no problems but for some reason he insisted on being a butt eater and sat with the butt of the mouse in his mouth for a good half hour before he spat it out and figured out what end needed to go down first! Anyway, on to the pictures of him!

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Aww, he's very cute. Congrats!

Thank you! He is really very docile as well and not even head shy in the least. I think we lucked out with him. Although, he is very very shy until he is being handled. Once he's out with us, he's all over the place but in his viv he mainly hides in one of his hides. The car seems to be his favorite, though. The best is when he peeks his head out over the "dashboard"!

You're very lucky to get such a healthy looking snake from a pet store. And he even ate f/t on first try!

Once bitten, twice smitten. I see more pythons in your near future :D

I too went from corns to BPs.. Though that's partially because my girlfriend isn't used to snakes enough to be comfortable with me getting anything that gets much larger. She will learn :D

grats!:)

Congrats...welcome to the addiction...

Very nice contrast, congrats!!

Just so you know... there is no vaccine for the BP BUG! :D

Congrats on your new baby!

Beautiful Fellow! Nice name too! Love LOTR!!

Thank you everybody! I know we will still be getting corns since that is my husband's favorite snake right now(and our daughter's!). I'm leaning more towards the BPs,though,because I think they're a little more docile and calmer or that could just be me! I highly doubt we'll be getting anything bigger because we do have cats and all my kids are still pretty young, even though I would love to get them. I just don't think any of us are prepared or confident enough to handle very large snakes. These guys are the perfect size for us! Although, my one corn is about 5 feet in length and pretty hefty!

Hubs is working on building us a nice rack system for the snakeys so we don't have all these vivs scattered through out the living room and bedroom.

He's cute! Love the names you've chosen for your kidz....those are two of my favorite movie series!

Yeah, we name all of our corns after Harry Potter(except for Pink) and have decided the BPs will be after LOTR. We're both insanely obsessed with both movie series. We have movie props from LOTR in our living room! Plus, the kids get a kick out of saying Longbottom and Lovegood! It's amazing really how obsessed with snakes our 7 year old daughter is! The boys can take 'em or leave 'em but she really wants to get into this stuff. She's even learned different morphs and what can produce what. She cracks me up when she starts telling people about the proper care of corns and what morphs we have and what they are het for. And she just thinks the BP is the greatest thing ever but upset that he doesn't fit around her like our adult corns do.

Congrats on your new addition!!! Happy belated birthday!!! He is very nice looking :gj:

he is sure pretty congrats and happy late birthday

Well, it's been almost a month since the last pics so I figured I post up some newer ones.
Turns out the store(I knew there was a reason why I've NEVER bought a snake from a store!) sexed him wrong and he is now MS. Sauron! Anyway, the first pic shows her stuck in a really bad shed. As soon as she went "blue" I put a moist hide in with her even though I do keep the humidity at around 54%. She refused to even go into it! So I would just give her a quick mist every day. Obviously, it still didn't work. So I had to give her a bath and let her soak and then used a tepid damp towel to get it off. I got tagged a couple of times while working on her head but as soon as those eyecaps came off she was very very laid back and let me get the rest off of her. So here are some before and after shots! Enjoy! Oh and she's sitting at 200g now! That's a gain of 43g's since I got her!
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Congrats! He looks good! Welcome to the addiction! :gj:

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Well, it's been almost a month since the last pics so I figured I post up some newer ones.
Turns out the store(I knew there was a reason why I've NEVER bought a snake from a store!) sexed him wrong and he is now MS. Sauron! Anyway, the first pic shows her stuck in a really bad shed. As soon as she went "blue" I put a moist hide in with her even though I do keep the humidity at around 54%. She refused to even go into it! So I would just give her a quick mist every day. Obviously, it still didn't work. So I had to give her a bath and let her soak and then used a tepid damp towel to get it off. I got tagged a couple of times while working on her head but as soon as those eyecaps came off she was very very laid back and let me get the rest off of her. So here are some before and after shots! Enjoy! Oh and she's sitting at 200g now! That's a gain of 43g's since I got her!

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Grats, she looks great. I suggest putting her in a damp pillow case next time she has a stuck shed. Leave her in there for around 45 minutes or so, and then let her work her way out. She should be able to get the shed off of herself. You will be less likely to get tagged this way, and it will be less stressful on her.

Thank you! I was going to try to use a damp pillowcase but I was worried about the fact that all my pillowcases are washed in fabric softener. I know that sounds stupid of me to worry about but I did. So, I could just grab a case out the linen closet and use it?

cute little baby!

great looking snake:D and great name lol

Beautiful!!!!! :D

I LOVE THE NAME!! Fits well!

Petstore purchase or not, her gold coloring is freakin' wicked!!! That's prolly the hottest little Normal I've seen in a long time. I think I would have snatched her up in a second, and I don't buy from petstores....she would have been the exception.

Thank you very much! I couldn't pass her up. Her gold is very intense but I've been told that will go away as she matures. I'm hoping not ALL of it will go away! She's my sweetie and I spoil her rotten!