I posted some photos of Tiamat in my Introduction thread, but I figured I should make a seperate post regarding updates for her!
I brought her home on November 11th. It wasn't planned (fiancé and I have chatted about getting a snake but had not firmly decided on one). A friend of mine bought a piebald male and was told she could take a piebald het female of she bought the male. She knew I was interested, offered her to me, and I gladly accepted. I spent the weekend before picking Tia up researching as much as I could and setting her vivarium up (largely creeping this forum for my research as well as reading a couple books I was able to get).
I left her alone for the most part for the first week (I had to fine tune a few things). Once the one week mark hit I eagerly began the process of her first feeding.
I'll admit I was absolutely terrified that she would reject the hopper even though I know this is fairly typical. She had also started to go milky/preparing to shed which made me skeptical that she would eat at all. Boy was I wrong. As soon as I got the hopper in she struck it. She didn't immediately take it though; she missed on her first strike and then hid away. After half an hour I did the zombie dance once more and then left her to it. She ended up grabbing it and 'hunting' it (her version was thrash it around by the tail), and then ate it. The whole endeavour took roughly an hour.
Today I began my first actual day of handling. I took her out for roughly 20 minutes and just sat and let her do her thing. She started to explore and climb all over me. She didn't curl into a ball at all as she did when I had placed her in her vivarium when I first got her.
Little about her:
- Piebald Het
- Roughly 3 months old
- 80 grams at delivery/89 grams as of November 21 (3 days after feeding)
- Currently on f/t hoppers
I'm so excited to continue to discover new things with Tiamat and to also just learn more about reptiles in general. While I don't want another reptile in the immediate future, I do think I want to get an actual piebald BP at some point, or a Retic.
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