I bought three new children's hatchlings because I missed Tobas and I really like the species (Plus I got a good deal).
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| I had been wanting a ball python for quite some time. Finally, I was able to buy this little guy in the summer of 2001! I really like his colors (even though he is just a normal) and he has a great temperment. Ball pythons are very secretive snakes. Many people experience difficulty feeding them. My hatchling had only eaten live before I got him. Luckily he started on frozen mice right away with no problem. I just put his food in his cage at night and its gone in the morning. This little guy had quite an adventure the first day I brought him home. Because of my stupidity, Braum escaped that very day (NEVER underestimate a snake!). I tore my room apart and a couple other rooms with no success. At the time, I had 2 weeks of school left and I was just home for the weekend. Sad and disappointed, I drove back to college thinking that no one would find him before the cats did. Lucky he is such a good hider! Well, four days later my mom called me and said that she found him in the TOILET! She said she almost flushed him because she thought it was a turd! I was sooo relieved but I still feared that he might become ill from having been too cold for 4 days. Fortunately, little Braum is doing just fine now and I adore him! | |
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| Ophelia is a truly beautiful Children's. She has a very light background coloration. Her parents were both patternless Children's (though the breeder turned out to be untrustworthy...), so hopefully she will lose her spots as she ages. So far i see no sign of this. I had to assist feed (just hold it near her mouth) her a couple times because she wouldn't eat on her own. Ophelia has never tried to bite at all, which is odd for hatchlings children's. She is always extremely calm! Quite like Tobas was. | |
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Davalynn is much darker than Ophelia. Perhaps he does have a greenish tinge to him. He definately lives up to the hatchling Children's reputation of nipping. Now days, however, he is quite calm and hasn't bitten in a while.
 Here are Davalynn and Ophelia together. Ophelia is the one stretched out and Davalynn is curled (tense of course). You can sorta see the difference in their patterns. Not a great pic but thats ok. | |
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| Ok, don't make fun of my snake's names. I name them according to their characteristics. In this case, Dartania always "struck" like a dart. She was such a mean little hatchling. Very nervous and untrusting. Well, I see a lot of improvement in her now. She has apparently lost her nippyness, though she still seems a bit tense. She looks very much like Davalynn. | |
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| This is one of my recent additions ('02). I had been looking for a nice blackback ball for a while and I finally found some from BHB Enterprises. There was a couple to choose from, and even though she doesn't have a clean pattern, she is quite stunning. She has some "leopard" spotting as well as a black/chocolate back. She is a voracious eater of live mice, however I'm trying to switch her to frozen thawed. So far I have only succeeded with pre-killed. Just need more time :). | |
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| When I was looking at the blackback balls, I found a rather small female that had a reduced pattern as well as a black back. I know I probably should not have got her, but I couldn't pass her up. As it usually figures, the cool ones are often the problem feeders or have other problems. Within a week she was showing signs of respiratory illness, mouthrot, she was scared of mice, and she would not eat. I took her to the vet straight away and got her on Fortaz, we wormed her, and I tube fed her. Since then she has been tube fed and wormed 2 more times. Now as of 8-10-02 she is doing soo much better. She is eating on her own and is on Amakacin. Showing a lot of improvement and I am very proud. Now she just needs a name....
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