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[grahamh]

Yea Bren they are big - I was quite surprised when I opened the bag. They were born around Christmas so they are about 9 weeks. How old are your two?

[Nicole]

Hey Graham...
Not to be too pedantic, but I waited sooo long, I remember that it was the 28th decemeber at 10.30amish when they hatched. Poor Paul, I had been bugging him for ages waiting to hear the news, he called me as soon as he knew. I remember I was getting a manicure at the time, and immediately told all the girls in the salon as I was sooo excited! They all looked at me strangely and don't talk to me anymore, but that could be for any number of reasons

my costal is 1meter now and is 14 months

[Slateman]

Congratulations Grahamh
You will love to feed this snakes. They eat and eat and eat. I had to cut on food with my year old female as she is 2.1 meter long now. I think that I will be her next meal. Rat is now to small for her and she eat 3 large rats for lunch or month old rabbit and rat.
But it is nice to handle her because olives feel so nice on my skin. So fine scales and gentle movement.
Surprice is the 2 year old mail given to me by great members of this community,and I have respect for this one. I don't like to handle him if he is hungry. He is after my blood. Once i have him out from cage he is right.

[Artie]

Congrats on your two new additions Graham (very nice looking). You bugga kept it all to yourself, and just sprung it on us!! Must have been hard to keep quiet for so long!

Hope they don't eat you out of house and home when they grow up, hehehe, lucky you live on a farm -- you might have to catch them a couple of little wallabies later on

[Alexahnder]

congrats for the new family!!

Also how big a cage would an adult olive need. I really want one.

[Magpie]

Hmm.. must be year of the Olive I think.

[grahamh]

The year of the Olive - yep it does seem like it doesn't it. It's taken a few weeks to get it together - I had only planned on one but circumstances changed a little and I decided to get two. I don't have any immediate plans to breed, well not for at least four years with these two. At the moment they're in a small enclosure where they will stay for the next 4 to 6 months.

Alexahnder I'm not sure yet how big the adult enclosure will need to be I'll need to figure that out. I'd like to set up a realistic one for them so I'll need to do a bit of research.

Food wise as you can see fromm Slatey's comment they will certainly be needing a good food supply. I don't really want to start breeding my own rats and rabbits so I'll have to figure out the best way to supply them.

[africancichlidau]

Have I done something wrong? If the information I got at time of purchase is correct then my Bredl's are just on a year old but they are 120cm plus, Is this too big for a yearling ?? Have I condemned my pride and joy to a life of deformity ??????? : :idea: :!:

[grahamh]

Phil

the photos of your Bredls show a pair of very fine looking snakes, I'm sure you can't be worried about them.

The diamond is supposed to be one of the slowest growing of the Aussie pythons. The Olive seems to be one of the fastest (Slatey's yearling at 2.1 mtrs supports that). I plan on keeping some accurate figures for my guys.

[Magpie]

Phil - when you said in another post (or in chat, I can't remember) that your yearling were 4' i Thought "that's way too big for yearlings" but before I said anything , thought that I'd better measure my yearling coastals. HHmmm, the small one is 115cm and the bigger one about 125cm. So I didn't say anything! I'd consider mine to be a very healthy size, possibly even a bit small for their age as both were late starters in the eating stakes and I definately don't overfeed according to most information I can find (10-20% BW 10-14days) So don't worry, be happy! BTW, my 3 year old is only 150cm long but about 10 times the body weight as she is so much thicker.

[africancichlidau]

Thanks for that guys I am feeling better already

My snake was small when i got him very small for its age>

[grahamh]

OK so which is which

http://www.aussiepythons.com/albums/...IS1a.sized.jpg

[africancichlidau]

The scale immediately in front of the left eye on one snake has a slightly greater angle to the leading edge than that on the other snake. This should help you ID them at least until a few sheds have passed. Examine them for small differences like this after each shed and you should be able to find identifying feature or two to help you distinguish between them. I actually ID my male and female Bredls by a small difference in a marking on the back of the head.