Yes, she's very, very long. I've seen her laid out across her 3ft tub twice length-wise, and her shed was 8.5+ ft long. Skinny though.Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy
She looks great W. Get used to the musking. You're so right about their iridescence. Wait until you get her outside in some natural sunlight. She's bigger than I originally thought. She could easily handle medium rats but I'd only feed those biweekly. With her size I'd respectfully disagree with Zinc and Gio just a little. There's no way I'd try to sit down and handle my scrub. They move too fast, they have a very long strike range, and they can be unpredictable. You have to constantly move with them to make sure you're keeping the pointy end away from your face at all times. I prefer to keep both hands on mine or to have him wrapped around one of my arms. I used to use a perch to handle Klauss when he was smaller but now that he's close to 6ft he's gets heavy quickly and he also likes to strike from a perched position so it becomes another fight. I let him rest on our bird feeder to get pics and approaching and removing him was a challenge. I'm glad your first handling session went fairly well. It should get better. I very rarely get tagged anymore and I only get musked about half the time.
And yes, I was about to comment the same thing. There would've been no way to handle her effectively if I was sitting down. The entire time she was trying to dart away at the speed of light or turn back around on me. She wrapped around my arm, and that let me keep her front end in check. Good suggestions for the future maybe, but shes too flighty right now.
So, so much faster than I would've thought.
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