The wait is over!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Well, all of the snakes are finally out of the fridge... I have been pulling them out slowly over the past two weeks or so. A lot of them ate their first meal tonight and seemed very pleased to be doing so! I took a few quick shots tonight I thought I'd share... first is the female terrestris who appears to be going into shed tackled first a very large fat fuzzy and THEN an adult mouse and was looking for more. This snake is awesome! These pictures make her appear small...





Blossom was clearly waiting for her turn to eat tonight... she sucked down about 7 huge fuzzies. She won't eat anything with fur on it, she simply hates the texture. I tried giving her an adult mouse, she always grabs it and starts eating entusiastically and then becomes disgusted when she realizes there is fur. I always feed a lot of mice at this time of year, just to fatten them up quickly out of brumation.

here she is fresh out of brumation:


and here she is after a good meal. I am intrigued by the fact that the tail after the cloaca is bright red but the rest of her belly is tan.



the newest inhabitants of the snakeroom are... goldfish?!?! They are terrible snake food but wonderful pets! Yes. I love fancy goldfish and I had a lot of fun building this setup.

[ConcinnusMan]

My last concinnus pair were that large in their last few years if you can imagine that. Well, the female was. Male a bit smaller and thinner. Quite capable of eating an adult mouse but they never ate rodents. 6-7 inch trout, now that, they would eat.

That snake you have is simply AWESOME! Nice aquarium too!

How old is she? How big? close to 4 feet I imagine.

[infernalis]

Very pretty Shanon.

[ConcinnusMan]

The title of the thread kinda fooled me. I was hoping that you had a litter. Still very pleased to see that awesome snake. You said I was lucky.. NO, you're lucky! awesome snake!

[gregmonsta]

Good stuff very nice.

[BUSHSNAKE]

love your goldfish! you could make an ant look cool...love ya for that!

[ConcinnusMan]

You know what would be kinda fun to have in there? A water phase rough-skinned newt. I've done it before and they do well in a tank like that and get along with the fish. They will eat flake food and earthworms. Like this one, only with gills:



They aren't native to my area but can be found in warm stagnant ditches and streams. They have cool personalities too.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Haha that would be cool! I may add my three firebelly newts to this tank once it has bio-Ed. Right now they are in my 20 long. I'm also going to add in my synodontus erectus and one of my Chinese bitterling. were getting PANDA ORANDAS In At work Thursday.... Yes!!!

[ConcinnusMan]

You mean synodontus eruptus I think. Unless one of the males is easily excitable and you add viarga to the water. D'OH! I just went there again.

But yes, you get the idea. A firebelly newt is practically the same thing. Smaller, but similar care. They are a great addition to a goldfish tank. I guess I suggested the rough skinned or CA newt because I can find them here and they are considered invasive, so what the heck, I took a chance putting them in a goldfish tank. Found them in a deep permanent drainage ditch one summer. It was great. Worked out fine. They "live long time". Keep the gilled phase in an unheated aquarium and they stay at larval stage for years. Adults can be problematic and prone to escape since they seek land.