Behira - 2016 Female Ivory Ghost - First BCI

[dakski]

She's looking good! She shares body type with my own ghost girl, who had kind of a skinny lanky girl look to her until she reached the 2,000 gram mark. I did also deal with a striking problem with my jungle girl, but her's seems to have been a hormonal thing. She stopped striking the glass as soon as I introduced a male to her, and she only really did it during season changes. She continues to be nice now that she's hopefully gravid: upping her feeding didn't help but breeding did lol. Just waiting on that POS that should happen this month. ^.^ Hopefully Behira starts behaving for you, too, I've had a few food-driven snakes, and at least ime more food hasn't fixed the issue just made them fat. All of those were adults, though, so no growth spurts to cause a response like that. Gonna have to wait and see how maturity fits her.

Thank you.

The more frequent feeding is an attempt to address the frequent shedding issue. She does not seem to be getting too fat, but I am keeping an eye on her. Any signs of excess fat vs. growth and she goes back to a longer duration between feedings regardless of shed cycle.

Not sure what to do about the striking except keep the drape up so it only happens with feeding and she doesn’t get hurt when I walk by the tank.

She is still a total sweetheart once I touch her with the hook and take her out.