Racer's Progression Thread

[Firemaniv]

I have a thread for my other 2 snakes but not for the family BP. With this being a BP forum, I figured I would start my BP thread. The Family BP is named Racer. My son when he was younger came up with the name the day we picked up the snake. My son wanted the snake to be a boy but I think he is a she. Racer was the first snake in the family and I thought at the time I knew enough for proper care but after finding the forum, I found out I had more to learn. That is how I found this forum and the knowledge here surely helped out in the beginning.

Racer was rescued from a petsmart. We stopped by to just look around. As usual the kids and I went to look at the snakes and my wife reluctantly asked if we wanted to bring home a ball python. Of Course my son was jumping up and down yelling yes and I was like "um, yea, are you sure"? I had to even get Racer out of the holding enclosure because the petsmart employee was scare to reach in and pick her up.

This past March was 3 years that Racer has been in the Family. She just shed the other day and has made it to 1545g. Using the forum and google I built a custom enclosure for her last year that has turned out awesome. I have a thread for it . Here I makes it very easy to manage her husbandry than the fish tank she started in.


The day Racer came home


enlosure fixed up to hold heat and humidity better.

[Firemaniv]

Her new weight after a shed.

Last Halloween

My daughter hold Racer

Out in the yard

[Firemaniv]

Racer shed and finally ate after refusing food for just short of 4 months. She had some minor weight loss.

[artgecko]

Very nice pics and a great looking BP. I love the periscoping pic.

[Albert Clark]

Very amazing pics! That is a great looking bp. Congrats on the new, updated enclosure. Great looking kids, I need that hat! Haha.

[redshepherd]

Dohhhh. Racer looks like he has a great life. :'D

[Aercadia]

Your daughter looks like Indiana Jones, and speaking as a girl who wanted to grow up to be Indy or Robin Hood, that's awesome. Nice progress with Racer, too!

[Firemaniv]

Can you guess what decade that I grew up in? I took these some time ago before I had this thread. I found that I had them on my laptop so here they are. Racer played along and did not get frightened. I believe I got the idea from some pics of star wars clones waiting at the AT-AT stop and an x wing in a tank.

[Firemaniv]

My daughter wanted to hold or I should say wear Racer.

[Firemaniv]

Racer shed the other day and has become active again. Of course this means she is a bug during the day and comes out at night. She was offered a rat today and gladly took it.