As Vlad did something interesting yesterday I thought it was time for an update.

Vlad stopped eating for a while over winter and lost 15-20g, he seems a bit more fussy now and prefers pinkies over fish. He's currently weighing in at 126g. He's not as outgoing as his radix viv-mate, and last time I got him out he freaked when I got him to the livingroom and musked all over the sofa (leather, so easy to wipe clean). I've decided that he's now a "handle when necessary" snake, not because he's aggressive but because I don't want to stress him. I said he did something interesting yesterday, keep reading - the photos are below.

Laccrimosa on the other hand has not stopped eating, ever. She's the only one of my garters that hasn't refused a meal in the last 12 months. As a result she's put on weight and length, I can never get an accurate length but I know she's over 1m now, and she last weighed in at 376g. She will still cautiously slither up to the open doors and into my hands, so she's one of the first that comes out (saying that all three of the bigger girls are the same, Lacci being the most cautious of the three).


Now photos of Vlad and some opportunistic basking...



And from the side...



I think he was trying to get behind the backround, not onto it, but once he'd pushed it to an angle where the top was immediately below the lamp he chose to have a bask. The LED light doesn't throw out a lot of heat, but still throws out a bit. When I had ivy suspended from the top of the viv Vlad always liked spending time in the ivy, I had to take that out because he was constantly using it as a route to get behind the background. I'll be adding some more ivy for him when I go through some viv reallocations in the next month.