3rd Blog - New Arrivals
Posted 13-11-2009 at 03:42 PM by vazzza
Well, Saturday 31st we set off up to Ipswich to see another forum member to collect a pair of HET Albino Royals (THANKS RANEGRAFIX). Journey was pretty painless which was nice.
On the journey back I had them on my lap (I wasn't driving!) in a cardboard box with loads of shredded paper. The male was so inquisitive he sat some of the journey with his head popping out the box watching the cars go by while the female had a sleep.
Anyway, I did manage to strike a deal with the seller so that I could take away their set-ups which was handy, only disadvantage was that i couldn't set the RUBs up before hand. So I got home and set the RUB's up and let the temps settle for 20 mins while showing the new snakes off to my house mate and just checking over for any problems/retained shed etc. No problems as expected!
Once in I let the new couple settle for a few days and the fella came into shed, he managed a pretty clean shed. Came off in a couple of pieces but removed 99% of the skin, just left a tiny section on his tail which he had no problem letting me remove for him.
I took a trip up to my local frozen food place and bought some mice. I do want to convert the new 2 onto rats (They've eaten them before so should be an easy transition) but seeing as this was their first feed in a new home thought i best go with what they knew best. Got a good result too, both ate with no problems.
So, the currently named Bam-Bam and Pebbles (might change yet, undecided) have settled weel, taken a feed and are amazingly docile. So all in all, well chuffed. Thanks again goes out to Ranegrafix, its a shame you had to sell, but i'm glad you did
Now its going to be hopefully a nice pain-free year of feeding and getting the pair up to weight ready to make some albino babies next season!
On the journey back I had them on my lap (I wasn't driving!) in a cardboard box with loads of shredded paper. The male was so inquisitive he sat some of the journey with his head popping out the box watching the cars go by while the female had a sleep.
Anyway, I did manage to strike a deal with the seller so that I could take away their set-ups which was handy, only disadvantage was that i couldn't set the RUBs up before hand. So I got home and set the RUB's up and let the temps settle for 20 mins while showing the new snakes off to my house mate and just checking over for any problems/retained shed etc. No problems as expected!
Once in I let the new couple settle for a few days and the fella came into shed, he managed a pretty clean shed. Came off in a couple of pieces but removed 99% of the skin, just left a tiny section on his tail which he had no problem letting me remove for him.
I took a trip up to my local frozen food place and bought some mice. I do want to convert the new 2 onto rats (They've eaten them before so should be an easy transition) but seeing as this was their first feed in a new home thought i best go with what they knew best. Got a good result too, both ate with no problems.
So, the currently named Bam-Bam and Pebbles (might change yet, undecided) have settled weel, taken a feed and are amazingly docile. So all in all, well chuffed. Thanks again goes out to Ranegrafix, its a shame you had to sell, but i'm glad you did
Now its going to be hopefully a nice pain-free year of feeding and getting the pair up to weight ready to make some albino babies next season!
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