My husband has a VBB. As you’ve noticed, there is not a lot of care information on them, which makes it important to purchase from a breeder that provides support. Old world rats like temps on the cooler side, I don’t remember the exact range.
We were told smaller more frequent meals are better, but the guy who told us that is a know-it-all twerp, so take with a grain of salt - OTOH, not power-feeding is generally good. Ours is a reliable feeder, only skips if he’s deep in blue. He won’t take off the tongs, though, just leave it in the usual spot. When he was little he’d wait to eat until we weren’t obviously around, he’s not that shy now.
My husband’s is in a 2’ x 4’ x 3’ tall AP cage with a shelf and a jungle gym we built out of PVC, festooned with artificial vines after this picture was taken, and uses all of it.
He’s not a cuddly lap snake like some BPs - active and feisty. He’s getting in his adult colors and looking gorgeous.
He was bred by Rob and Amy Zerkle/Zerkle Reptile, along with my husband’s King rat snake. The Zerkles are great, if you want an old world rat snake, you can’t go wrong with them. They’re from Ohio, minimal web page, mostly FB. They’ll be at Tinley this weekend, I think they usually share booth space, and post on FB where their booth is at.
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Originally Posted by Prognathodon
My husband has a VBB. As you’ve noticed, there is not a lot of care information on them, which makes it important to purchase from a breeder that provides support. Old world rats like temps on the cooler side, I don’t remember the exact range.I'm hoping frequent handling will make it to where they will tolerate handling but I would also be just as fine to have them as a gorgeous display animals as well.
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