Pixie the tanimbar scrub python

[redshepherd]

SOMETHING CAME HOME WITH ME FROM THE SHOW, and it was not a russian rat snake :’) There were none there, unfortunately.

So she's a captive bred yearling Tanimbar scrub python, produced by Andre Mondin, and I purchased her from Mike and Erika Renau! I actually just wanted to hold a scrub python, and they had three… they told me she is the most docile and let me hold her- she’s super flighty at first, but calmed down in a minute. I came back like 2 hours later to ask more about her, found out she's taking f/t small rats, handled her again, and then bought her.

I had a set up all ready at home to begin with for whatever terrestrial or semi-arboreal snake I might (*coughs*) bring back from the show and hahah


I named her Pixie, just now!

Just from watching her in her cage today, she’s super inquisitive on her own, yet nervous at the same time when I watch her, and her eyes/head follows me as I move around… and she doesn’t like it when I stare at her from outside the cage lol. My eye contact makes her shrink back. Hopefully she gets used to me and calms down easier as time goes on! Pretty neat!

iphone pix of Pixie for now. It'll be a couple weeks before I take her out again for nikon or canon photos. She has an interesting bluish tint, and is much less brown in person. No idea why my phone is making her out so brown in the first pic.







So... pretty interesting!!! I also bought Vigil a gigantic new hide from the show too, so she could use it for life.

[John1982]

She's a beauty, congrats!

[piedlover79]

Wow! I would take that home with me. Heehee

[EL-Ziggy]

Gorgeous critter. They get pretty big too.

[redshepherd]

Gorgeous critter. They get pretty big too.

Yes lol! Tanimbar are a smaller locality, maxing out at 8 feet or under. And having a light and slender body shape, I figured this is handle-able for me.

[janeothejungle]

Nice Addition!

Cheers,
Kat

[redshepherd]

I thought I should specify, because I forgot to do it in my first post- this is Simalia Nauta/Morelia Nauta, which is a small locality (or is it technically a subspecies...) of amethistina. These max out at 6~8 feet for females, but most of it is just long skinny tail and neck. While morelia amethistina is the giant snake that most people know scrub pythons as. Morelia Nauta is also known to be more docile and flighty, rather than defensive and bitey haha.

So some people just call them Tanimbar python, rather than Tanimbar islands scrub python. (but they're still technically a scrub python so psh)

[Reinz]

Congrats Red, I love her!

This is why I don't go to reptile shows, I don't trust myself.

[redshepherd]

Congrats Red, I love her!

This is why I don't go to reptile shows, I don't trust myself.

thanks!
LOL seriously, like... Even if you don't find the first thing you wanted, you're bound to get something else.

[spazhime]

Aaah congrats! I am so happy to see other people getting interested in scrubs, they are so intelligent and gorgeous!