So on Saturday i went to Repticon and i left with a beautiful Jungle Jaguar Carpet Python.
I have a Bearded, and a Jungle Runner, and recently got great Spider Ball Python.
The guy i got him from said that he is only 8 weeks old (should be 9 weeks today).
He has not eaten in 14 days tomorrow and i cant seem to get him to eat anything, the seller said that he hadn't missed a meal since birth and he does seem full bodied (not to thin) but i have tried a live pinky mouse and a f/t pinky rat and he doesn't seem to want to eat.
My other question is, i have a 2.5 gallon Critter Keeper, and a 5 Gallon Critter Keeper. should i keep him in one of those with like some sort of perch until he is a bit bigger?
I also built him a 75 gallon tank (I'm assuming he will be able to use through adult hood) that is bio-active, the spring-tails and isopods are finally cultivated! Is he still too small for this tank? i had to clean his smaller critter keeper and put him in the huge tank, he seems to love it. he has been thermoregulating pretty well in there and climbing on top of everything, but I'm afraid he will get stressed from the huge size, especially since i still haven't been able to get him to feed.
Any helpful tips would be great. i don't want to have to force feed him but i cant let the little beauty get sick on me. He does seem to strike at the f/t and the live pinky mouse but he wont latch, the one time he got caught on the f/t he freaked out.
He does have a bit of neuro which i know is pretty common in the morph, he has the shake pretty bad and goes upside down all the time, i knew that purchasing him, but after seeing the way other people were talking about him and the breeders talking about euthanizing him if they couldn't find a buyer i couldn't help but rescue him.