Orochimaru Update

[nightwolfsnow]

Here are some new pictures of my BP that I got on 7/14/15 at 90 grams. He was 103 grams on 8/12, had a mouse that day and one on 8/17 so is probably 110-115 now. I tried to weigh him yesterday, but he got smart and wrapped around his tree stump. The first four mice were taken every seven days. He never hesitated so the fifth mouse was given at five days no problem and I'll keep him on that schedule until he hits 400 grams. Orochimaru is really living up to his name, very hissy and doesn't like to be handled. I was only handling him once a week. Now that I have a snake hook I handle him more. I haven't tried holding him with just my hands for longer than it takes to move him to a different container when I'm cleaning. He's still really defensive, guess he's still in that stage at his age and weight. I've learned to read his body language better and can get him out of strike mode before he tries to bite me. His first shed with me went okay. It started the night of 8/4. The belly, head, and upper neck piece came off the first night. Most of it was gone two days ago, the last little piece came off today. I'm really considering just getting a pvc setup so I won't have to worry about humidity as much. They are not nearly as expensive as I thought.

Here are some random pictures:

This was yesterday when he didn't want to be weighed, but still wanted to know when I was giving him a mouse.


Orochimaru likes to redecorate






He likes climbing the suction cups a lot. I just got him one of those Fluker's spring action fake bamboo poles. Right now he's still digesting that mouse, so he hasn't checked it out yet.






Guess Accurite can advertise it as a thermometer/hygrometer/snake head rest

[LightningPython]

Awww! He is such a cutie! I love his pattern on his back.

[se7en]

i like the grey champagnes

[nightwolfsnow]

Awww! He is such a cutie! I love his pattern on his back.

Thanks, me too. From what I've seen, patterns and coloring on champagnes change quite a bit with age. It will be interesting to compare his pics as he gets older.

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i like the grey champagnes

Yeah the axanthic brings out the grey more.

[Ax01]

he's adorable and I'm glad he's eating well. he looks very active too.

u can add moss and/or substrate to help hold moisture/humidity if u wanna keep a tank setup. also some have recommended that u continue to handle your snake if it hisses/strikes. u don't want them conditioned to that behavior where they associate hissing/striking u to being left alone.

anyway I think you've got the first axanthic champagne this forum has seen and he's a good looking one.

[nightwolfsnow]

he's adorable and I'm glad he's eating well. he looks very active too.

u can add moss and/or substrate to help hold moisture/humidity if u wanna keep a tank setup. also some have recommended that u continue to handle your snake if it hisses/strikes. u don't want them conditioned to that behavior where they associate hissing/striking u to being left alone.

anyway I think you've got the first axanthic champagne this forum has seen and he's a good looking one.

I was lucky to get a good feeder as my first bp. Yeah he's pretty active at night, especially the closer it gets to feeding day.


I put moss in his hides and that has helped. Yeah I continue to handle him even if he is hissing.

Thanks n.n

[nightwolfsnow]

I may have figured out why Orochimaru was so grumpy...He likes his beauty sleep XD? Last night was day 5 since the last time I fed him. I closed at work, so didn't get home until after 10PM. After taking care of my kittens and cleaning up a bit it was 12PM. Orochimaru was already out roaming around when I went to take him out. Normally he starts to get defensive when I'm taking the clips off the lid, but he was pretty much chilling, flicking his tongue out and watching me. When I took the lid off he didn't ball up or anything. At this point I'm getting suspicious, maybe there's something wrong with him, why no attitude? Lol. I stroked him with the snake hook and he turned his head away from but didn't ball up and didn't hiss! I was pretty pleased with that. He didn't try to get away from the snake hook when I was picking him up or try to shoot down back into his tank. Went in the tupperware no problem, and instead of balling like normal he was looking around. Even when I was opening the tupperware to put him back in the tank after cleaning he didn't get defensive or stressed. Anyone else have snakes that are more docile at night? I read that it didn't really matter what time you took them out. So was this a fluke? I guess I'll see. Last night he weighed in at 122 grams and took a 20 gram mouse. I was a little worried about the size of the mouse, I guess I fed the feeder too well lol, but he took it no problem.

Here's a derpy video of him from last week.
http://vid282.photobucket.com/albums...s/CAM00205.mp4

I moved the bars because I was worried about them being too close to the heat lamp. (The temp says 73 because I had just put him back in there after cleaning.) He seems to like them.









Nice full belly
http://vid282.photobucket.com/albums...s/CAM00316.mp4

[nightwolfsnow]

Pictures from 8/28, he was 138 grams. He was again not defensively hissing and very curious.







Still a pain to get him out of that hide.




I was redoing the aluminum foil on his lid and instead of hiding from me he got as close as possible.

[ProjectMKUltra5]

Axanthic champagne for your first BP. I'm so jelly

[nightwolfsnow]

Axanthic champagne for your first BP. I'm so jelly

I knew I wanted an Axanthic something. I really like the axanthic killerbees, but those were out of my price range. One day I want to breed some.