New egg-eater

[Awesomethepossum]

I need a better pic of the head but I believe this is D. medici and based on the size I am going to lean toward it being female. Sometimes you can tell based on post-cloacal scale count, you can also submit a shed to Ben Morrill/Reptile Genetic Services. DO NOT pop! DO NOT probe! These animals are entirely too fragile and you can break/kink their spine

I have been keeping medici for years and what I have learned is this:

These animals are best treated as semi/fully arboreal. I keep mine in a 37G tall style tank with multiple climbing branches and vegetation and use hanging finch nests as hides. 99.95% of the time the animals are in the aerial hides. I keep at ambient temp which ranges 23-27C in my snake room. Feeding should be done seasonally. I offer one egg every other week in March then two-three eggs every other week April-July, the rest of the year I withhold feeding. An animal the size of yours should be able to handle quail eggs without any difficulty. You should be able to find them at any international food mart, the typically available twenty-four pack should probably do you for the year.

I'm really glad you saw this post then- and I'm also glad I posted here. I've been getting a lot of different info, but obviously I want to do what's best for my snake. So whatever info or advice you have, I'll happily accept/take.

Do these pictures work?

Poor thing was really flustered that I dug it out to take these pictures. Has been digging around and tunneling, which I thought was strange..

So you think it's female? She is pretty large, but I didn't have any information to refer to...I've been looking but knowing the actual species would probably help If they prefer arboreal setups, that's what I'll do.

I left two different types of quail eggs in the tub. All fresh. So far, she's shown no interest, but if what you say is true than that would make sense. This is why I'm confused, because the seller said the guy who owned this snake was giving one egg a week

1.0 Pumpkin Pied BP, 0.1 KSB, 0.1 Bearded dragon, 1.2 Leopard gecko, 0.1 Ornate Pacman Frog, 1.1 Barred tiger salamander