Hi guys,

I'm planning to get a blood either on July or Christmas of this year. I've read a few caresheets and I just want to ask a few questions on the "average" experience, as this bit is sorta....not so available in the caresheets.

1) handling; I've worked with afrocks and retics. From my experience, afrocks do a VERY good job of intimidating you through hissing. Unacclimated afrocks tend to squirm wildly when handled, then either: a) defecate/pee around you or b) strike. When I handled retics on the other hand....out of the three retics I've worked with, the last two were similar to my afrock....except they skip the initmidating part and go straight to striking

What can I expect from my future blood/short tail?

2) husbandry (note, I live in Manila....retic country ); all of my pythons (retics and a ball) are kept in my room (AC's disabled), caged separately.

If I do obtain a p. curtus, will I have issues if I arrange the cage like say...the way I arranged the cage of my retics? (humidity and all). I read that I am to be guided by the weight of the p. curtus, not the length but I guess I just want to know if even in a "retic country", do I still have to make an attempt to make the cage a lil more humid than usual?

3) feeding; in my herping experience (i've worked with phil. rat snakes, retics, afrocks, S.I. ground boas and balls), I guess I'm pretty much blessed to experience "feeding compliant" animals; my ball's longest hunger strike was roughly 2 - 3 weeks (shed phase excluded).

Will I have difficulties in feeding when dealing with p. curtus?

Thanks guys; I'm still researching/reading up on my next herp (took me roughly 8 months to "prepare" for my first leo...lol!) and I pretty much narrowed down the list to include p. curtus (blood, borneo short tail...idc. As long as it's a Python Curtus ).