As some of you know, I practice choice-based handling with my snakes, which means a very gradual introduction to contact with me when I get a new arrival like Calcifer.
He's been doing great so far - typical Morelia appetite - he is responding very well to target training, which doesn't surprise me. He's also seeming to enjoy his perches and platforms in his quarantine tub. So far he has shown zero interest in using either hide, but he does really like a cardboard paper towel tube that I put up on a platform for him. Usually though, he's just hanging out in the open and draped on his perches even when sleeping.
He wakes up about 7pm and a few times a week indicates that he'd like me to remove the lid from his tub. When I do so, he doesn't seem to have any big need to wander or explore - he just hangs out like this on the edge of the tub for a couple of hours and then usually puts himself away. VERY occasionally I have to put him back in the enclosure, and this is so far the only time I've been touching him. He's very calm about everything though, and is overall quite a serene little guy.
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