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[Caspian]

Picked up an unexpected Banana on Friday. Apparently it hadn't eaten anything but a hopper, and the guy gave up on trying to get it to eat so he wanted to get rid of it. He also said that it was really aggressive. Unknown breeding, unknown gender, but I'm leaning toward just Banana and male, pending examination by my vet when I can get an appointment. No aggression at all - in fact, really mellow and curious, when I handled it. No sign of mites, good looking scales, and while the cage it was being kept in was a horrible set-up, it was clean and the humidity was okay.

Well, I got it home, put it in a quarantine cage, went to take a tub of live mice in to the snake room for feeding - and that little Banana went NUTS when it smelled the mice going by. Not all that visibly skinny, but it hadn't even explored its hides yet, and it was frantically 'swimming' at the front of the tub.

I know not to feed until they've settled in. But with it being a baby still, and not having eaten, I figured... it won't hurt too much to just drop a small adult mouse in and then take it right back out if the snake was responding to something else...

Well, suffice to say that less than a minute later, I was running interference to keep the snake from swallowing the mouse before it was entirely dead. That mouse barely got a paw on the bottom of the tub before the snake had it. It's now curled up in a nice warm hide, and I'd swear it's smirking. I guess feeding response won't be a problem.

198 grams as of today (full of mouse). I also grabbed a few quick pictures, while I was checking the cage a few minutes ago. The surface beneath it is stark white for comparison, so the photos appear darker than they should, but my camera was being temperamental.

[Albert Clark]

Wow Cas! What a pickup. Kudos to you and him/her. Did the po just give it away?

[Caspian]

Wow Cas! What a pickup. Kudos to you and him/her. Did the po just give it away?

Nope - that would have been nice! I bought it from him. More than I would have chosen to pay, normally - especially without knowing more information about it. But when I saw the snake, I really liked its response and attitude - and I figure that's what's most important!

[Albert Clark]

Yep, i agree. Nice move. Can't go wrong with a banana.

[butterballpython]

Nice pick-up!

[stickyalvinroll]

Very nice pickup!

[Caspian]

Gender confirmed - it's a boy. I'd rather have a female, but I'm not surprised! I am sort of wondering if there might be pastel, as well as banana, but I'm no judge of it.

[Ax01]

congrats! everyone needs a Banana.

i'm glad u will be able to provide him with a better life and that's he's eating and friendly for u.

[Caspian]

congrats! everyone needs a Banana.

i'm glad u will be able to provide him with a better life and that's he's eating and friendly for u.

Feeding certainly isn't going to be an issue - Adult Mouse #2 just slithered on down his throat. Greedy little gut! And I'm already tired of listening to the new colony of mice getting busy across the room... But they're in the process of making food.

Picked a name, now that I've got the gender confirmed - Arlirr.

[Caspian]

So, apparently changing the folder name in Photobucket kills the image links. Oops.