Quote Originally Posted by Spikeanoid View Post
So pretty.... I'm jealous.

Later on down the road when you get lazy like me, you can stick the frozen rat in lukewarm water to quickly defrost then stick it in the cup of hot water. Then you don't have to remember to defrost in the morning.
lol That's a great idea! When I get comfortable with their feeding routine and feed them successfully for a few weeks I'll try doing that!

Again, thank you for your help everyone.

I am lucky I have these two beautiful BP's....it was almost not to be. I had originally purchased a "patternless" male mystic potion (no little white markings on its belly) and it had arrived the day before Halloween. Since I don't live near a big city with an airport, I arranged for my friend to pick up the snake for me and take it back home with her because she would be in the city anyway visiting relatives. Unfortunately, she wasn't going to get to the city until the day after the snake was due to arrive. I would have just rescheduled the shipping date but the breeder was going out of the country so the only date he could do it was the day before my friend arrived.

My friend said her brother could pick the snake up and keep it until she got it from him the next morning (she is experienced with snakes and her brother would have had it for literally less than 12 hours). The breeder wanted her brother to open the box at the cargo counter and text him to let him know that the snake arrived safely. He didn't follow instructions and didn't open the box until he got home, so the breeder called me in a panic wondering if everything went okay. Once I got a hold of the brother and established everything was fine with him and the breeder, I went to bed and thought nothing more of it...until I woke up to a series of messages the next morning stating that my snake died during the night. He didn't take the snake out of the box it was shipped in and a heat pack taped to the lid of the Styrofoam box "fell" on the snake during the night and literally cooked it to death. I was devastated and sickened when I saw the pictures. Fortunately, my friend and her brother wanted to make it right and gave me most of the money it cost me to buy & ship the snake so I could get another one from the same breeder.

I decided to make the journey myself so I could ensure my animal's safety. The breeder felt pretty bad too because there was nothing he or I could do about what happened from where we were. I had made huge efforts to maintain communication between us the entire time and put no blame on him for what happened since it was obviously not his fault at all. He offered to sell me another male mystic AND a female super mystic that was going to be a hold back with the male at a discounted price. I wasn't expecting to get two BP's but decided to go for it because she was very pretty too. So, what was an originally terrible situation ended on a positive note. I feel bad about what happened to the other snake and learned a very hard lesson from this experience.

Here are some pictures of the female super mystic I got. I am passionate about mojaves/mystics for some reason and just love her blue eyes!