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After wanting a snake for a long time and after huge amounts of research, my husband and I decided to take the plunge. The original plan was to buy an RTB from a breeder, but during our search a friend of mine told us about her cousin/roommate who had bought a young RTB just 2 week prior and was already bored of it and planned to let it loose in the woods behind their apartment complex (We live in VIRGINIA!) My husband and I couldn't let the poor guy die of exposure so we took him in and he is now in his forever home.
Sadly, the guy who we got him from knows NOTHING about RTBs and Leviathan (As he's now called) was an extreme impulse buy off of craigslist for 45$. He had no heat lamps, no substrate, no hiding/climbing places and had a gatorade cap as a "water bowl" and he was crammed into a crummy 5Gal tank. So my husband and I outfitted him with a bigger 20Gal tank (which is only temp until we can find a bigger tank next week), heat lamps, coconut fiber substrate, a nice water/soaking dish and some hiding/climbing places and picked up some frozen mice.
Sadly, because of my husband and I's general inexperience to the finer points of RTBs such as types, sexing, colorings.morphs, genetics and such it makes it hard to determine if he is a BCC or a BCI, whether or not he is really a he and so on. But hopefully Mondays vet trip will give us some clues as to his general health, sex, age and such because the guy we got him from knew NOTHING about him except that he was supposedly a male and approx. 5 months old.
Here's Leviathan:
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Sadly, the guy who we got him from knows NOTHING about RTBs and Leviathan (As he's now called) was an extreme impulse buy off of craigslist for 45$. He had no heat lamps, no substrate, no hiding/climbing places and had a gatorade cap as a "water bowl" and he was crammed into a crummy 5Gal tank. So my husband and I outfitted him with a bigger 20Gal tank (which is only temp until we can find a bigger tank next week), heat lamps, coconut fiber substrate, a nice water/soaking dish and some hiding/climbing places and picked up some frozen mice.
Sadly, because of my husband and I's general inexperience to the finer points of RTBs such as types, sexing, colorings.morphs, genetics and such it makes it hard to determine if he is a BCC or a BCI, whether or not he is really a he and so on. But hopefully Mondays vet trip will give us some clues as to his general health, sex, age and such because the guy we got him from knew NOTHING about him except that he was supposedly a male and approx. 5 months old.
Here's Leviathan:
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