First off, before trying to convey my immense pleasure, i'd like to thank every one of you who have assisted me with all my queries and questions regarding Pythons. Truly, without your guys help, I would most likely still be stuck in selection hell.
As most of you may know, after much consideration, I decided to take the plunge into the snake world with a Python... more important, a Morelia Bredli. Many worrying days passed, with my efforts to find a hypo breeder looking fruitless. These little herps are in high demand it seems, but eventually my diligence paid off thanks to some tipoffs, and a great guy called Tremain (indicus for all you APS people). With as much speed as I could muster, I sent many messages to Tremain, querying his new batch which were ready to hatch (some may have called that borderline harrassment
), and I got in early to put my name on the prettiest of the bunch.
Well after much waiting, she finally arrived yesterday, and by god she's a pretty one. I'm not much of an expert when it comes to pythons, but from what i've seen, this baby bredli looks to be a screamer, and will hopefully grow into one even more beautiful and captivating specimen. Her nature so far seems quite placid, her initial reaction out of the sock she was placed in during transit, was to take a curious sniff of my arm. I'm not going to lie to anyone, my heart was racing, as I was expecting her to gorge on the flesh before her... but she was content to just poke her head back in the sock, away from prying eyes. I eventually inverted the sock and booted her out of her impromptu home into her new enclosure (a Hilton in comparison, let me assure you), and her intial reaction was not one of complete fear and the death of all things moving, but she placidly went along to explore her new surroundings. Only once did she coil in a striking position, and that was when I decided i'd attempt to pick her up by moving my large, claw like hand into her enclosure (i'll be sticking to using the little hook to get her out of the enclosure for now, it doesn't seem to threaten her.
Anyway, she seems to be doing well in her new hut, and I plan on giving her her first feed tomorrow.
Here are some piccies, which you'll have to excuse the quality of. My camera was playing up and not focusing properly.
I'll try to nab some better pics tomorrow.
As most of you may know, after much consideration, I decided to take the plunge into the snake world with a Python... more important, a Morelia Bredli. Many worrying days passed, with my efforts to find a hypo breeder looking fruitless. These little herps are in high demand it seems, but eventually my diligence paid off thanks to some tipoffs, and a great guy called Tremain (indicus for all you APS people). With as much speed as I could muster, I sent many messages to Tremain, querying his new batch which were ready to hatch (some may have called that borderline harrassment
), and I got in early to put my name on the prettiest of the bunch.Well after much waiting, she finally arrived yesterday, and by god she's a pretty one. I'm not much of an expert when it comes to pythons, but from what i've seen, this baby bredli looks to be a screamer, and will hopefully grow into one even more beautiful and captivating specimen. Her nature so far seems quite placid, her initial reaction out of the sock she was placed in during transit, was to take a curious sniff of my arm. I'm not going to lie to anyone, my heart was racing, as I was expecting her to gorge on the flesh before her... but she was content to just poke her head back in the sock, away from prying eyes. I eventually inverted the sock and booted her out of her impromptu home into her new enclosure (a Hilton in comparison, let me assure you), and her intial reaction was not one of complete fear and the death of all things moving, but she placidly went along to explore her new surroundings. Only once did she coil in a striking position, and that was when I decided i'd attempt to pick her up by moving my large, claw like hand into her enclosure (i'll be sticking to using the little hook to get her out of the enclosure for now, it doesn't seem to threaten her.
Anyway, she seems to be doing well in her new hut, and I plan on giving her her first feed tomorrow.
Here are some piccies, which you'll have to excuse the quality of. My camera was playing up and not focusing properly.
I'll try to nab some better pics tomorrow.
