Ruby's journal:
Ruby is my Chihuahua Mountain Kingsnake  (Knoblochi)
Oct. 19,2002:We got Ruby today at the Hamburg Reptile Show. She seems to be a very timid snake. She doesn't even rattle when your first pick her up. Buy her size I THINK she's around a July clutch. We tried to give her a pinkie when we got home but she wasn't interested, so I just put it in her tank to see if she'd take it over night.
Oct. 20,2002:Well she didn't eat by morning, but she did eat it later in the day. I hope she doesn't expect this kind of service all the time!!!
Oct. 25,2002:She didn't seem interested in eating again, so I covered her feed tank and poof!!! The pinkie was gone!!! I guess she's still a little shy.
Nov. 1,2002:Well I guess her shyness is gone!! She ate her pinkie almost as soon as I put her in her feed tank!! I have to measure her sometime to find out how big she actually is, but my guess would be around 15".
Nov. 9,2002:She ate 2 pinkies today.She did the same thing Bones used to do, she started swallowing one then wrapped up the other one while she was eating the first one!!!
Nov. 12,2002:She was blue today. Her scales actually looked pink from the haze of her shed coming loose. I can't wait to see how red she looks afterwards!!
Nov. 14,2002:I measured Ruby today and she measured at 15 inches, man I'm gettin' good!!! LOL
Nov. 17,2002:The pet store was out of pinkies this week, so I had to get her a fuzzie.She did eat it, but she ate it butt first!!!
Nov. 18,2002:Ruby shed today, a complete shed!!! Unfortunatly she pooed in it!!! AARRGGHH!!!!!  LOL
Nov. 24,2002:The pet store was out of pinkies and fuzzies today, so I had to go to another store and get F/T.She didn't seem interested to begin with, but after a while she finally ate it.
Nov. 29,2002: She ate 2 pinkies today, she always seems to have to roam around her feed tank first to check everything out before she'll start eating. I think Raven had hers half way done before Ruby even noticed hers.
She did it again!!! She wrapped up one pinkie and wrapped up the other one while she was swallowing the first one!!!
Dec. 6,2002: Pretty basic this week, she ate both her pinkies, one at a time : (.
Dec. 14,2002:She ate her 2 pinkies again. She still roams before she'll eat though. NOTHING like Raven, Raven will have at least one done or close to done before Ruby even checks hers out. At least she's eating though. : ).
Dec. 23,2002: We had to get F/T today. Ruby ate them in no time, she didn't do her usual roaming first this time.
Dec. 30, 2002: She ate 2 F/T this week.I was surprised because she looks like she's in shed, I thought she'd skip this week.
Dec. 31, 2002: She shed last night.It was a perfect shed, no poo either. LOL
Jan. 5,2003: I got her 2 F/T pinkies this week, and she ate both of them. She looks like she's growing pretty good, so next week I think I'll try a F/T fuzzy.
Jan. 31,2003: Well, forget about the fuzzies. I got some F/T mice at the reptile show that I THOUGHT were fuzzies and they turned out to be hoppers. Anyway she ate hers no problem.She really looks like she's growing, more then the other "little" ones. I measured her before I fed her and she measured at 18.5 inches.
Feb. 12, 2003: I checked in on Ruby today and she was blue. : )
Feb. 14, 2003: She hasn't shed yet, so I wasn't sure if she'd eat today. Well it didn't seem to bother her, she ate her F/T fuzzy after her usual roaming first.
Feb. 16,2003: She shed last night. My daughter woke me up to tell me too. LOL She ripped it up on her hide, so this isn't gonna be a keeper : (.
Feb. 21,2003: I got her a live fuzzy this week. She actually wrapped it up and ate before Raven this time!!! But then again, Raven couldn't figure out which way she wanted to eat hers LOL.
March 8,2003: She just wasn't interested in eating this week. She didn't even give it a second look. I tried giving her a F/T hopper. So, maybe next week I'll  try another live fuzzy.
March 14,2003: She ate this week!!! She ate a F/T hopper. I had to cover her feed tank till she finally decided to eat though.
March 21,2003: I got her 2 live fuzzies this week. She ate both of them. She looks like she's in shed too. She wasn't actually blue, but she looked pink instead of red. I thought she had eaten both of her fuzzies, so I took her out and saw she only had one lump. I checked her feed tank and found the other one under the paper towel. I lowered her beside it, and she struck and wrapped it up right from my hand!!! Pretty cool ; ).
March 27,2003: She shed today. I didn't get a full shed though. She ripped the tail portion off on her climbing branch. Her sheds look pretty cool because you can see every black cross band on it.
March 28,2003: She ate 2 fuzzies this week. She didn't waste any time this time, for once :).
April 5,2003: The pet store gave me an extra fuzzy this week so I gave it to Ruby. She didn't even constrict any this week!! She just grabbed them by the nose and kept swallowing. She ate all 3 that I gave her.
April 14,2003: I measured her today and she's up to 22.72" and .53" wide. She really is growing like a weed!!! She's 5" longer than Raven and only .01" thicker.
April 21,2003: She didn't eat ANYTHING this week. She did look like she MIGHT be starting to go into shed. Her eyes weren't blue, but her scales looked off color.
April 26,2003: Well, she's definatly in shed now ; ). I got her out to feed her and she was blue. She didn't eat anything this week because of it. I can always tell before she turns blue when she's going into shed because she actually turns pink! I guess that's why she's my daughter's favorite!! LOL
April 29,2003: She shed today and she shredded it!!! I took her out to make sure she shed OK. Nope, first bad shed for any of my snakes : (. She had small peices hanging on her back just behind her head. I gave her a bath to help get the rest off. I'll check on her again tommorrow just to make sure I got it all. Looks like she gets a humid hide from now on!
May 1,2003:I had her out today, so I decided to measure her. Only about 2 1/2 weeks since I last measured her and she's up to 25.5" and only .54" thick.That's almost 3" in a little over 2 weeks!!! I change my mind, she's not growing like a weed, she's growing like KELP!!!
May 4,2003: Today was feeding day, and she ate 2 hoppers. I tried giving her one of Raven's, but I guess 2 was enough. I had to cover her feed tank again to get her to eat. She just gets shy every once in a while ; ).
May 11,2003: She ate 2 hoppers again. I had to cover her tank again before she would even look at the mice.
May 17,2003: She only seems to want to eat in private. LOL She'll just ignore her mice till I cover her feed tank. At least she eats good though. She ate 2 hoppers (under a blanket) LOL
May 25,2003: She looks like she's going into shed again. She was pink instead of red :). She still ate 2 hoppers though. I still have to get her humid hide together. I don't want her getting a build up of bad sheds.
May 30,2003: She shed last night. She didn't have any stuck shed scales, but she did manage to rip it on her water dish. She's starting to remind me of Bones!!! LOL
June 1,2003: She ate 2 hoppers today. I had to cover her feed tank before she would even look at them again. I measured her today too. She's up to 26.7" and .59" thick.
June 9,2003: She ate 2 hoppers again this week. I STILL have to cover her before she'll eat. LOL
June 15,2003: I got rat pups at the show yesterday. I gave her 1 pup and a hopper mouse. She ate both of them. She seemed to like the pup better since she sniffed at both of them and ate the pup first. I actually didn't have to cover her this week for her to eat!!!
June 23,2003: She really seems to like the rat pups!! I gave her 2 and she ate them in no time!! I didn't have to cover her feed tank again. I'm not sure if it's because she likes the pups that much, or if she's getting used to me watching her. Either way, all for the best in my opinion ; ).
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