My email has been hacked as well as my friend's. I'm almost positive this person has deleted all ways we would have to contact them or get access to names and such. I wanted to post on the BOI but I don't have the name/website and now no longer the email. Both Rocky and I are very fortunate that he still has all but what he paid for in his bank account and these snakes arrived alive. Hopefully this experience teaches him NOT to gift animals, even though I know he was just trying to do something nice, I would have preferred he approached me about it first and I could see if he'd order the snake after the enclosure was set up.

As far as the backyard breeder comment, I'm not sure if these snakes were bred irresponsibly or captive hatched.

I don't know if this is at all possible, but can bins be used for adult snakes as well? Come time for them to be upgraded, I was thinking about doing another bin setup then as they grow out in that, building either a small (large, really) rack or a stacked cage system. What should be the next size bin I get for them?

I do eventually have the intention of breeding long down the road when I have quality animals of the proper ages and weights but these two will never breed due to unknown genetics. I have bred before (not snakes) and when I do, I never breed animals that don't have solid, provable backgrounds including photos of the parents and such. I don't like selling people animals that may end up as breeders themselves with such mixed genetics it yields deformities, shortened lifespans, ect, if the offspring I produced don't already yield the same. It isn't fair to the buyer, the hobbyist or the animal itself.

I want to thank you all for being so helpful in all of this. I really appreciate it and I'm sure my new snakes will, too. I will do my best to keep you all updated and present in their lives as they grow. Hopefully my fiance lets me keep both of them.