Pythons are quite different from corns, milks, and kings. Pythons are more apt to just sit in your hand and are usually not as squirmy. My first python was a Children's Python that I named Tobas. Unfortunately, Tobas was not to live with me more than a year because we were constantly fighting a respiratory infection. After numerous vet visits, many many shots, even surgery, and lots of money, tobas lost the battle. I will always remember what a great snake he was.

I bought three new children's hatchlings because I missed Tobas and I really like the species (Plus I got a good deal).

  • Name: Braum
  • Species: Ball Python
  • Scientific: Python regius
  • Type: Normal
  • Gender: Male
  • Obtained: 5/26/01
  • Weight: 500gms (7-15-02)
  • Length: ?
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.
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, Braum was just fine!
  • Name: Ophelia
  • Species: Children's Python
  • Scientific: Antaresia childreni
  • Type: poss. patternless or het
  • Gender: Female
  • Obtained: 8/16/01
  • Weight: 66 grms (7-15-02)
Ophelia is a truly beautiful Children's. She has a very light background coloration. 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 hatchling childrens'. She is always extremely calm!
  • Name: Davalynn
  • Species: Children's Python
  • Scientific: Antaresia childreni
  • Type: normal
  • Gender: Male
  • Obtained: 8/16/01
  • Weight: 92grms (7-15-02)
Davalynn is much darker than Ophelia. He definately lives up to the hatchling Children's reputation of nipping.

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.
  • Name: Dartania
  • Species: Children's Python
  • Scientific: Antaresia childreni
  • Type: het. for green ghost
  • Gender: Female
  • Obtained: 8/16/01
  • Weight: 76 grms (7-15-02)
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. She is a hopeless biter.
  • Name: Gemini
  • Species: Ball/Royal Python
  • Scientific: Python regius
  • Type: blackback
  • Gender: Female
  • Obtained: 6/22/02
  • Weight: 100 grms (7-15-02)
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 :).
  • Name: Runa
  • Species: Ball/Royal Python
  • Scientific: Python regius
  • Type: blackback
  • Gender: Female
  • Obtained: 6/22/02
  • Weight: 35 grms (7-15-02)
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.
  • Name: Endumo
  • Species: Irian Jaya Carpet Python
  • Scientific: Morelia spilota variegata
  • Type: normal
  • Gender: Male
  • Obtained: 10-5-02 (North American Reptile Breeders Conference and Trade Show)
  • Weight:
I finally have a carpet now! I really like Irian Jaya carpets. I've had some trouble finding one though. Luckily there were some nice ones at the show. My male has very bold color. Not very red though.
  • Name: Squirrel Corn
  • Species: Ball Python
  • Scientific: Python regius
  • Type: reduced pattern
  • Gender: Female
  • Obtained: 4-19-03
  • Weight:
  • Name: Protasia
  • Species: Irian Jaya Carpet Python
  • Scientific: Morelia spilota variegata
  • Type: normal
  • Gender: Female
  • Obtained: 9-27-03
  • Weight:
Protasia is a beautiful creature. She has a neat pattern that forms a stripe down almost her entire back. She has a great disposition and a hearty appetite. Someday when she is big enough she will be bred to Endumo.

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