Nageswari

My husband is soooo good to me! I was looking at red bloods yesterday, and he leaned over and added one to the shopping cart! [emoji4]

I want a pretty pet, not a breeder, so I'm getting a T- get albino girl from Reptillis Herps. She's a 2015 baby, number 15-054.http://www.reptillisherps.com/store/...29_15-054.html. If the link goes dead, she looks a lot like the other het albino girls on this page: http://www.reptillisherps.com/store/..._%26_Hets.html. She's the one my husband picked mostly at random, but after looking at them all again I decided to stick with her (since I can't afford a batik).

Ordered yesterday early-mid afternoon, got an e-mail confirmation of the transaction, but hadn't heard from Mr. Tillis to set up shipping, so I gave in to my impatience and called after lunch today - as he was about to call. She's going out today and I should have her tomorrow. (Pace pace pace, fidget fidget fidget). This is the first snake I've had shipped, and even though I know she'll be fine, I'm fussing. When I got fish a few months ago they were delivered around 9 am, expecting the same for Nageswari - the advantage of living near-ish O'Hare airport.

I found a decent price on Cambro polycarbonate food-service tubs (webrestaurantstore.com), so she gets to be our first tub-housed snake, until she grows up into an AP enclosure. I've avoided tubs until now because I want to be able to see my scale-babies, and even Rubbermaid clear/translucent tubs are more brittle than I like. With Cambros I get a tub I can see into, that I can trust for durability (I'm a Civil Engineer, over-designing is what we do! [emoji6])


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SO jealous! 😊 Can't wait to see your photos.

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I would like to categorically state that I am not obsessively checking FedEx tracking . . . but that would be a lie.


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She's a feisty baby! Got me 3-4 times in a couple minutes! Makes up for my super-sweet baby Woma Python. [emoji4]

Since she was so hissy-pissy I didn't get any stills, but I did a little I boxing video, and there's a nice shot of her at the end.

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Got a bunch of pictures when I moved Nageswari into her Cambro tub. First one is in her shipping box, the rest were taken from outside the tub in place on the shelf.
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And behold! I have (re-) invented the rack! [emoji1]
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I moved shelves around on this IKEA Ivar unit and was thinking I'd be safe with no clips. Then I snapped the shelf into position on the pins, and decided otherwise - but a piece of 1x2 is a nice snug fit between the lid and the shelf above, and requires less faffing about with than clips.


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So cute! She is beautiful, gotta love fiesty ones.;)

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Congrats! First blood? Looks like some nice pink around the neck and good color. Should settle down with age, they can be so nervous and angry as babies though lol.

Yes, my first blood python (but not the first time a python's drawn blood [emoji39]).

When I moved her into the tub after lunch she seemed less cranky, but she's definitely getting a few undisturbed days to settle in. Plus she's in one of the quieter rooms of the house. She's about a year old, so from what I understand, still baby-nippy.

As much as I like my mellow snakes, there *is* something about the feisty ones.


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Last night I gave Nageswari a temporary cardboard-box hide (since the hides we have about the right size are top-opening, and I don't want to risk her getting stuck), since she hasn't read the threads/websites saying she could burrow under her paper. In response, she moved into her water bowl. This morning we went shopping, and found a hide-to-be and a more roomy water dish.

In response, she's wedged herself between the water dish and the back wall. [emoji849]
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At this point I suspect she may not actually know what a hide *is*, which we've run into with a couple rack-raised BPs. If she's still there tomorrow I may put her in the hide.


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I had that issue with Phatty, lived without a hide all his life.. He wouldn't touch the one I gave him until I put him in it. Now if I don't have a hide in there he flips his water dish. *eye roll*

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