And, as of yesterday, I've had her for half a year!
There’s one word for what Zephyr has been doing over the last couple of months: growing. She’s been expanding and lengthening before my eyes.
On 28 June she was 48 grams and around 50 to 55 centimetres. Today she is 74 grams and, according to HerpMeasure, 64 centimetres. At two months old everything was feather light: bones, muscles, flesh and scales. One section of her body resting across one of my fingers felt barely there. Now she’s getting some weight to her.
Something in the fuzzies I feed her, maybe? I wanted to upsize her to hoppers but couldn’t get them, so I’m feeding her in a 2-1, 2-1 pattern: 2 fuzzies one week, 1 fuzzy the next. It doesn’t seem enough for her anymore. Any advice on her feeding schedule over the next few months will be appreciated, keeping in mind I’ve still got 10 fuzzies left that she needs to eat.
She’s still the sweetest little snake, often coming out of her click-clack to crawl onto my hand. The exception is when you drop her mouse just as she strikes and her jaws close on thin air, which is what happened last night. She was in such a feeding frenzy that 25-centimetre feeding tongs didn’t seem all that long anymore and I had to keep my fingers clear while trying to retrieve the mouse. She snapped at any movement like a mouse trap going off until she had firmly secured that poor rodent in her coils and mouth.
Recently I’ve noticed she’s attracted to moving shadows, her own most especially, which means she spends a lot of time staring at the wall. I try not to laugh...
Anyway, here are some pictures of my girl. Enjoy.
There’s one word for what Zephyr has been doing over the last couple of months: growing. She’s been expanding and lengthening before my eyes.
On 28 June she was 48 grams and around 50 to 55 centimetres. Today she is 74 grams and, according to HerpMeasure, 64 centimetres. At two months old everything was feather light: bones, muscles, flesh and scales. One section of her body resting across one of my fingers felt barely there. Now she’s getting some weight to her.
Something in the fuzzies I feed her, maybe? I wanted to upsize her to hoppers but couldn’t get them, so I’m feeding her in a 2-1, 2-1 pattern: 2 fuzzies one week, 1 fuzzy the next. It doesn’t seem enough for her anymore. Any advice on her feeding schedule over the next few months will be appreciated, keeping in mind I’ve still got 10 fuzzies left that she needs to eat.
She’s still the sweetest little snake, often coming out of her click-clack to crawl onto my hand. The exception is when you drop her mouse just as she strikes and her jaws close on thin air, which is what happened last night. She was in such a feeding frenzy that 25-centimetre feeding tongs didn’t seem all that long anymore and I had to keep my fingers clear while trying to retrieve the mouse. She snapped at any movement like a mouse trap going off until she had firmly secured that poor rodent in her coils and mouth.
Recently I’ve noticed she’s attracted to moving shadows, her own most especially, which means she spends a lot of time staring at the wall. I try not to laugh...
Anyway, here are some pictures of my girl. Enjoy.
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