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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.